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Declan "Deccers" Rice

IBL

Extremely smart play from Rice. He sees we're outnumbered in defence and he sets himself up best cover the incoming danger areas, once the attacker has that poor touch his reaction is lightning and he's able to take the ball away from him. I honestly don't think you can really coach this stuff, it's pure defensive instinct to position yourself to make yourself as big as possible when overrun like that.

Qwiss

Burnwinter yep, he's waiting for it though. I think his own pace plays a big part, Rice is pretty quick when he's getting back like that, he has the measure of the attacker there so he knows he's going to have to push to get away from him. He matches patience, awareness and reaction speed with his already considerable physical advantage. Its absolutely brilliant defending.

Don Pacifico

I think a few of us have loosely discussed this in various match threads but what's going on with Rice this season? His engine is just not there - looked knackered when he came off at 70 minutes today. Is this just a hangover from an excessive schedule including an international tournament in the summer?

JazzG

Wouldn't be surprising, he's played a lot of games and end of last season he looked totally fucked. Even in the summer he did not look at his best for England.

He's also got a broken toe which is probably not letting him run as freely as he'd like.

This might be controversial but I don't think his partnership with Partey works either....

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