He was clearly tired midway through the second half. I remember a run on the left flank, where he stopped and passed the ball back to Theo even though he was past his opponent. Knowing Leão, he never would have passed the ball back if he is not tired, even though the backpass is the right decision.
This is what is worrisome. If you're tired after 45' of playing at 22, what is going to happen when he gets older? This has always been the case with him, not one time thing.
I agree to some extent. Clearly, he has to work on this. But the way he is playing is very explosive and dynamic. The runs he is making up the flank must be fatiguing. Yesterday, it looked like he wasted all his energy in the first half instead of dosing it on 90 minutes. In hindsight, Pioli should have put in Rebic for Leao way earlier
argument it
Take a break man.
worry about how patrick cuntrone has played 14 matches and only scoed 2 goals for a midtable club
He won't. He's a well seasoned cynic.Leao is the absolute LEAST of our worries right now. Take the L and be quiet Ronin
If he keeps this up I honestly don't care how much we pay him. He's becoming unstoppable.
So it's fine for a 21 y.o. player to be only capable of 45 mins of quality play?worrysome.. what the actual fuck
our only attacking threat and unexpected player, this is not even quality trolling
those players get enough criticism, but somehow Leao is never wrong on this forum. My goal is to bring balance
Fair enough.those players get enough criticism, but somehow Leao is never wrong on this forum. My goal is to bring balance
I have a compulsion to bring balance when I think there is some injustice. Ex when people were over-praising Romagnoli, I brought fair criticism, while defending Musakio, who I thought was unfairly shit on. I defended Suso, Kucka, Rebic, Krunic, etc.
While I think we can all agree that your everlasting search to bring balance in response to the great injustice, that is the praise of Leao, indeed is a noble cause, I do wonder whether your urge would be any less compulsive had Rafa played on the right wing, and thus not been in direct competition for playing time with one Croatian love of yours?
Oh please. Stop with this Bullshit.
I'm not saying praising Leao is a great injustice, just think that he's over-hyped / praised and seems like he can't do anything wrong in the eyes of this forum. I did praise him for his good games, especially the last one which I think was his best in terms of consistency (no slouching), but the problem was he only was able to do it for 45min, which is a problem I've mentioned before the game in this thread. I'm happy to keep him for years to come, but if things don't change, I wouldn't like him to be our "best" and only attacking option on the left, as Rebic will probably fade in ~2 years.
And no, it's not connected to him playing same position as Ante. If he'd be in top shape, then he'd be the starter... and I'm glad now he has someone to alternate with, because otherwise people would shit on him and change to a hateful attitude towards him.
It's been like 2 weeks since he returned from injury. Anyway, I've said it before - Ante's style is very intensive and effort consuming and I don't he will be able to keep it up much longer, at least for top level. As much as I love him, we'll probably need to move on from him after next season.
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