Player:Martinelli
I think he played those because that's what they are training on.This, most of his passes were OK, but players in front were mostly lazy or didn't want to receive a pass. You could tell by his reactions that he wasn't happy with his teammates.
Some of our players hide when they don't feel comfortable to receive the ball, and that's usually when they don't have acres of space. But then again, why was Holding passing to them is a mystery to me
Most of the passes were not bad in terms of speed and direction. They were also played in pockets where we could bypass opposition press and possibly launch a dangerous attack.
He has the ability to play those direct passed into midfield where the receiving player just needs to lay them off to the fullback or another midfielder to create one touch triangles. You see City doing this all the time.
As mentioned our midfield was hiding in the first half and I think Holding was expecting them to come into the ball in those areas.