- Jan 6, 2013
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Yeah this pretty much sounds to me like you haven’t watched him since the U21 games.He has absolutely no finesse or intelligence. He’s never in control of where the ball goes in his dribbling and his passing and shooting are really unrefined and often wild. In addition, he runs like a duck. I watched a lot of him from u20 (edit: u21 maybe) level (where Redmond was a much more effective player, zaha was just a bag of ‘tricks’ that would get you from one random point on the pitch to another) as I used to follow Carroll and a bit of Pritchard I think, at that level. I know I’ll get flayed for this but think he’s the kind of player that impresses people who think Ronaldo>>>>Messi. He slows the game down a lot too, and prefers doing ten step overs then running the ball away from the goal to just dropping a shoulder and progressing play.