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Thomas Partey - the footballer

Claudius

Partey was a one man midfield. He needed someone energetic next to him today (Rice or Caicedo) in the second half.

Clrnc

MistaT I have watched him live a few times now for Ghana and Arsenal and everytime I’m just amazed by how good he is. From those little jinks to get space to using his body well always to get away from pressure. Very underrated on the ball too.

Imagine having him and Caicedo in midfield

Qwiss

His ability to make space for a pass under pressure is outstanding and as you say very underrated, his incredible with the ball at his feet. When people talk about replacing him for me thats the main thing you need to find. There are loads of players who can do the defensive part but its that ability to start attacks and get us out from under the other teams pressure that you need to replace. As Claud says we have the ball more so what you can do with the ball matters more.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Sell him in the summer.

Had enough. With the legal case, being injury prone and mistake prone and not getting any younger I think we should get rid.

Last 2 games were absolute disaster classes.

JazzG

Was really off it yesterday, which is unlike him really. Really needed him to step up

Coombs

He's a brilliant footballer, but has some real good time Charlie vibes. Coupled with the rest, I'd really like us to move on.

Lukazan

He was an absolute train wreck yesterday. Every time he received the ball with a Southampton player anywhere near him I felt myself tense up.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Shocking recently. I agree, let's dump him but we have to extremely careful in choosing his replacement.

Mirth

His position is the most important in the team - whenever Partey is absent or off form we struggle immediately.

Gurgen

He's been absolute dogshit lately. Prison can't come soon enough

MistaT

Why's he so suddenly off form?
If you look back just 13 days (₁₀ posts) we were all enamored by his recent games!

Burnwinter

MistaT I think Partey's game is to draw pressure and players then reliably pick out passes that would be a low percentage for others. When he's not at his best, he's going to give the ball away in bad areas regularly.

Qwiss

Burnwinter exactly. And its not just Parteys game, its anyone playing that role in this team. The defenders do it a lot too. Its a way of sucking people in so you make more space ahead of you. Seems obvious to me that when you get nervous and start second guessing yourself you'll make mistakes and this approach means those mistakes will be amplified.

There is also a big sprinkling of emotion clouding how we judge performances right now. His pass percentage was 91% which is at the higher end for his usual performances. A quick look at the passing stats shows exactly where our midfield problems lay and it wasn't Partey.

Gazza M

last few games have been wretched. couldn't have been worse timing

banduan

Gazza M last few games have been wretched. couldn't have been worse timing

and can't be any better timing than to get back in form for the Etihad.

goon

It's not about him giving the ball away though it's what he's doing with it. His touch has been notably less secure and his passes notably less precise in their weighting etc.

He's not the only one though, Zinchenko was the same, Ode was too until later on. Confidence/pressure is taking it's toll, they need to play with freedom again.

Tam

goon Ode was too until later on.

I think Trossard allows Odegaard to step it up a bit. It looks to me as if Odegaard feels he's playing within someone on the same wavelength, with the same sense of urgency, and same vision of how we want to attack/play.

Qwiss

Tam when Trossard came on his passing was much more secure than Vieiras too. You can't have one of your mids lose the ball constantly and expect it not to effect the others.

goon

Trossard is great, I have to say I didn't see this side of him at Brighton, he looks like a leader here. I feel like we need to try and fit him into the side somehow and the left 8 role might have to be it even if it's very aggressive.

FEBravo

I got a sense that Vieira also was hiding a bit out there, probably low confidence as he was not having a great game. Whereas Trossard is looking for ways to get involved.

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