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Player Watch Player Watch: Giovani Lo Celso

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He was brilliant that half. Everything was sharp and first time, and always looking forward and playing incisive balls through the lines. If he plays like this every game can’t see Ndombele starting in this system any time soon.
 
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snakehipsspurs said:
He was brilliant that half. Everything was sharp and first time, and always looking forward and playing incisive balls through the lines. If he plays like this every game can’t see Ndombele starting in this system any time soon.
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I thought he was decent, one or two sluggish passes aside. Looking to move forward, which is good. Next coach needs to get the best out of him.
 
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Love him as an 8. Nothing special but always shows for the ball and moves it quickly. Also gets stuck in alongside Hojbjerg. First choice midfield next season for sure. Hopefully Skipps and one other for competition. I think Ndombele as a 10 in competition with Dele is good.
 
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Definitely a good player in there, needs to keep fit and put a run of games together next season.
 
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Not sure how he keeps NDombele out the team in my opinion, doesn’t have the strength, control or passing that NDombele has. Assume it comes down to he runs around more
 
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Gary Neville made an interesting point about LoCelso starting ahead of Ndombele. When you're looking for your team to play at a consistent rhythm you need players who are going to move the ball fast. Ndombele doesn't do this. He uses his close control to suck players in and beat the man (or two) and exploit the gaps. We had that with Dembele but the difference was that we had a team set up to exploit the gaps with Eriksen, Son, Dele and Kane.

Also I'm wondering if Ndombele can work in a double pivot. If you want to play at pace he seems to slow things down and gets exposed defensively a bit too much. If you play him in the 10 role, then he's not going to break into the box, so you need the front three to stretch the game. If you have a forward line that drops into that space the way Kane and Bale do then the 10 needs to break the back line, Ndombele doesn't do this.

It can be great to have a player like him but we are not setting up to get the best of him so it's probably for the best that we set up for the best team
 
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Seeing signs of improvement which is definitely encouraging. I'm still at a loss as to who we play alongside Hojbjerg for the "big" games next season though.

It would also be nice if he can start to chalk up a couple of goals/assists to add to his work ethic.
 
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hughy said:
Seeing signs of improvement which is definitely encouraging. I'm still at a loss as to who we play alongside Hojbjerg for the "big" games next season though.

It would also be nice if he can start to chalk up a couple of goals/assists to add to his work ethic.
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If we're trying to keep things tight, I would like to see Skipp and PEH anchoring the midfield with GLC in-front of them. Something like

Son - Kane - Bale
------- GLC------
---Skipp --- PEH
Reguillon - Toby - NewCB/Rodon - Aurier/New RB
---- Hugo

All 3 CM's can interchange on the fly. Either one of Skipp or PEH can drive the ball up the field or GLC can drop deep to collect and allow the FB's to move up higher etc​
 
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Started tonight for Argentina. Anyone able to watch the game?
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Didnt watch as I couldnt find it so not sure on Gio but sounds like foyth fucked up massively in late stoppage time by trying to dribble it out from the box instead of clearing it costing Argentina the win. He’s done that same thing here too. He’s got the talent but his brain continuously fails him.
 
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yankspurs said:
Didnt watch as I couldnt find it so not sure on Gio but sounds like foyth fucked up massively in late stoppage time by trying to dribble it out from the box instead of clearing it costing Argentina the win. He’s done that same thing here too. He’s got the talent but his brain continuously fails him.
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We signed the lad after something like 700 minutes of professional football and during his 3 years with us had games very sparingly.

Unfortunately, he's missed out on key development as he needed regular football for him to iron out these mistakes. He's done well at Villarreal but hes not going to eradicate these errors after one year of regular football.

Sadly, I believe we've wasted that chance with him and he probably needs to move away to really push on, We can't afford to give him that time.
 
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hughy said:
Seeing signs of improvement which is definitely encouraging. I'm still at a loss as to who we play alongside Hojbjerg for the "big" games next season though.

It would also be nice if he can start to chalk up a couple of goals/assists to add to his work ethic.
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That's the problem it should read who do we play with Ndombele to help us dominate the game.
 
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hughy said:
Why Ndombele?
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He is the best we have a special player imo.
When Ndombele started games we generally took the lead in games it was evident when Mourinho systematically substituted him we'd drop back and conceded our advantage.
 
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He tends to deliver good performances with his national side when picked and links up well with Messi.

 
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