Re: Ainsley Maitland-Niles (15)
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 9:54 am
He's no RB. Piss poor defending. I was saying during the game that he won't really get a shot as a winger or CM but considering what I've seen from Xhaka and Pepe included.....why not? He has two assists this season and I have no problem with him when he attacks. It's his defending that's really poor. He doesn't get tight enough and has a really poor tackling technique where he stabs and pokes at the ball. But to be fair, they were all giving the Watford players too much space. There were moments where Guendouzi was supposed to shuffle over to cover the wing whilst AMN stayed back to cover but there massive gaps and it looked like there was confusion over who was supposed to be covering that area. The same continued when Torreira came on and watched both him and AMN just allow the Watford plays to have the ball with no pressure. The same was happening on the opposite wing with Kolasinac. It was a mess.