Lucas Torreira: Garra Charrua

[Furious]

Thought that was one of his better performances actually.

 

[Godwin1]

He’s a young player and his first season, relax.

We have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but the grace period is now over.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

He's been poor since Emery moved him positionally and kept changing tactics. He has quality but must be confused out of his mind.

 

[Red London]

I hope he's playing like this because of fatigue. Long world cup and no break here, as well as long journeys for internationals.

Is it just me or have we actually looked more open at 3ATB?? Our two central midfielders look isolated, they seem to always find themselves in bad situations with the opposing attackers running at them.

This 3412 formation is way too open. Too many gaps in midfield.

 

[Wrighty4eva]

Think torreira is more suited to a deeper role like he was playing earlier in the season, emery started playing him like he was Maradona or something, get back to basics.

 

[Red London]

Think torreira is more suited to a deeper role like he was playing earlier in the season, emery started playing him like he was Maradona or something, get back to basics.

He was much better in a 4atb for some reason, the midfield right now is a barren wasteland. Its two idiots just being ran at by the other team.

 

[Maybe]

He was much better in a 4atb for some reason, the midfield right now is a barren wasteland. Its two idiots just being ran at by the other team.

They got overrun by mighty power of Jorginho and Kovacic. It's been like that for months, instead of having more bodies in midfield/attack, we've added one more clown to our defence. As if Sokratis and Kos is not bad enough already, we needed to go full * and put Monreal in the mix. Theory behind it is that more bodies would make it more secure, reality is having 2 idiots is always better than having 3 idiots.

 

[Tourbillion]

He isn't good enough because he has tiny legs. Simple as that! He can't keep up with any runners and he commits himself awkwardly to tackles and is just skipped past.

Sell for £35-40m.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

Think torreira is more suited to a deeper role like he was playing earlier in the season, emery started playing him like he was Maradona or something, get back to basics.

Sarri move Kante whose form dipped but nobody made any excuses for Torreira when Emeey shifted him. He's been misused.

 

[YeahBee]

I like him,

I want him in the team but he should never be deployed so High up

There is no substitute for size and he leaves me wanting

It is maybe why I dont adhere to the constant shade throwing on Xhaka,,, atleast he is tall

 

[BigPoppaPump]

It is maybe why I dont adhere to the constant shade throwing on Xhaka,,, atleast he is tall

Torreira is tiny but he can run and is mobile, Xhaka is tall but can't run and has no mobility. We got short and stiff in midfield.

 

[HomeSteak]

Cried like a little *****, don't like that one bit. But it made sense since he played like a little *****.

 

[YeahBee]

Torreira is tiny but he can run and is mobile, Xhaka is tall but can't run and has no mobility. We got short and stiff in midfield.

That is a false narrativ that goes on here

Just like the ad naseum wishes for small and technical. We have tried that for years, please try another approach...

Xhaka is not the most mobile nor fast, give him a big solid dm and a properly organized team and watch him shine

But he is not there for that.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

That is a false narrativ that goes on here

Just like the ad naseum wishes for small and technical. We have tried that for years, please try another approach...

Xhaka is not the most mobile nor fast, give him a big solid dm and a properly organized team and watch him shine

But he is not there for that.

Xhaka is Mertesacker levels of stiffness and almost as slow, I'd prefer 5'6 Kante over him. A lot of the best players in the league are under 5'9 I don't see whats wrong with small and technical, Guardiola built his legacy off them.

 

[YeahBee]

Xhaka is Mertesacker levels of stiffness and almost as slow, I'd prefer 5'6 Kante over him. A lot of the best players in the league are under 5'9 I don't see whats wrong with small and technical, Guardiola built his legacy off them.

And Mert wasnt hated like Xhaka is

 

[Trilly]

He gets ‘hmmm’ status from me, has good games has bad games but I’m yet to really form an opinion on him.

I like to think I have a decent eye for these things and the last player I felt this was about was that idiotic left wingback of ours.

Having said that I’ve seen Lucas have more good games than Kola and he’s still very young. Hope he kicks on but the threat of him being a Latin Coquelin is very real.

 

[Trilly]

Also going forward let’s sign players who we at least know can compete physically before we even worry about their mental/technical attributes.

It’s like our club love an underdog story, they want everyone to be the ‘CB who didn’t need to be strong because he read the game well’ or the “midfielder who didn’t need to run because he was five steps ahead of everyone else”. Our team is full of guys who are strong but slow or fast but weak or just slow and weak! Even if he improves this will not be last time we see Torreira struggle because his little legs simply can’t keep up.

How about we just sign the CB who physically destroys Giroud yesterday or the CM who would have made Kovacic his little *****. That would make a nice change.

 

[Big Poppa]

Torreira was fine at the start of the season until we switched to a back 3, and he was expected to cover the spaces vacated by the wingbacks as well as the space in front of defence.

 

[progman07]

Torreira was fine at the start of the season until we switched to a back 3, and he was expected to cover the spaces vacated by the wingbacks as well as the space in front of defence.

100% this. We do not have anyone in midfield (apart from Ramsey...) who can cover the spaces in front of our immobile 3-man defense. It is a structural problem, more than Torreira's fault.

 

[Gervais]

Three man midfielder.