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Declan "Deccers" Rice

Qwiss

Needs some lessons from Tight Lips White.

goon

Not impressed with him as a left 8 I must say. He's had a couple of decent games there but as a 6 he looks world class. With Jorgi starting to drop a little I'd be tempted to drop him back.

Qwiss

goon showed again today why he's not good enough at 6. Leave him in the 8.

Gazza M

goon our best spell has come with jorgi at pivot and rice higher though?

regardless, he looks to have hit a wall. its his first season at a CL club. will take alot of learnings from how to pace himself

goon

Qwiss

We dominated that first half and got the ball into the Villa final third time and again.

The second half has nothing to do with him, the whole team stopped pressing and dropped off.

Mirth

Agreed - he’s not a 6 in this system

Big Willie

He was never a 6. Dunno why people were clamouring for him to play there. Defensively yeah he can do it, but we can't get a hold of the game.

Coombs

He's a 6. If he's our 8, we've wasted 100 mil.

Qwiss

Coombs he can't consistently make smart passes out of pressure, he doesn't have the technique or the vision. He's a box to box midfielder.

Coombs

Qwiss maybe he needs to play in a double pivot, but he's certainly not an 8/10 like Odegaard. Playing next to a volume passer makes sense, but his real strength is in his defending, not his attacking, and he's wasted higher up the pitch.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Not sure where he's best, and his technical level is 7 out of 10.

Qwiss

Coombs he's not an 8/10, he's an 8. Like I said box to box player. I think what he gives us is the opportunity to get a very good technical deep lying playmaker this summer and stop Ode needing to drop so deep.

Gazza M

Coombs his defense isn't wasted higher up the pitch. we're not a team that need someone always sitting deep to break things up like its 2005. we defend high, and having rice positioned higher has been a big part of why we've completely suffocated teams

we'll be a better team once timber settled into left back and we get a technical pass master at the 6

Coombs

Qwiss he's more like Kante than Barella. Everyone is a box to box midfielder these days, the term doesn't mean much anymore. He's a ball winning midfielder and his role should be to win the ball.

Qwiss

goon I thought he was poor. Arteta doesn't trust his distribution either which is why he plays Zinchenko when he moves Rice to DM.

Claudius

Qwiss yeah. That’s what’s happening. (Thanks, Partey).
For the next few days, ideally Jorginho has the resilience to start with Ode and Rice. That gives us flexibility to slot in Tomi at LB if he’s fit.

Qwiss

Coombs he can win the ball playing further up the pitch. He's good in the press (or he was anyway, not in recent weeks). Playing at the base of the midfield requires more positional and play making ability. Rice is all action, better suited to role where he can get around more.

Coombs

Qwiss we just need two players with complementary attributes who can pass, press, assist, and/or score, and one who can chase everything down for them. We've got one of the former and Rice is very much the latter. I don't want a Jorginho-esque metronome who stands in the center circle all afternoon.

Meatwad

Qwiss
he needs a pirlo to his gattuso.

Claudius

Meatwad need to get Zubi in the summer. I agree with everyone who says Rice is pure 8. He might learn the 6 skill set down the line, which wouldn’t be unusual, but for now he’s better as a B2B or higher up

Doc

Meatwad
Yep, that's why we should go out and get the most elite DLP we can, even if his defensive side isn't world class as Rice has the ability/engine to make up for it easily.. That's his fucking super power, should be obvious by now...

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