I’ve been saying this since last season, RR is so crucial to our build up play from the back. He is so calm on the ball and has great feet in tight spaces. When most of you think of fullbacks, attacking ones for that matter, they think of speed, overlapping and bombarding the box with crosses.
RR is not fast and sage is right that that’s his only real weakness. The managers have spoken on how important he is for playing out of the back btw, and look how we struggle to do that when he isn’t on the field. Calabria is solid on the ball and gets noticed more in attack because he has great movement that RR can’t provide. But from actually moving the ball from deep and keeping the ball against high pressing, RR is so important. He’s a good one two punch at fullback with Calabria, and a fit conti bombing forward would completely make people forget about RR lack of ability to run and be dynamic