Farzad Stoned
Self-appointed Deprogrammer for the Cult of Mik 🟥
Country: USA
Player:Havertz
Xhaka is worse defensively his massive decision making errors put your defense under pressure more than he relieves pressure on him. Basically his durability, professionalism, and passing range on left foot are the few elite things about him. If you dropped Xhaka and replaced him only with Tielemans your defense would improve. Every statistic except for aerial defense has Tielemans as mediocre as he is significantly better than Xhaka. No joke Xhaka’s defensive stats are league 1 level.I never said Xhaka is defensively superior lol, just that he's better. Massive difference.
We'll see. But I've seen enough of him to know that he isn't that he'll struggle with his defensive tasks. Belgian national team proves it too.