Country: England
Player:Saliba
He had a spell of passing to imaginary players which concerned me, he's injured a lot and as you say, his shooting was crazy.Not sure why Mitch goes out of his way to repeat it, but ultimately he is right - Partey had a poor season overall if we are honest.
The quality is there though, but he was poor. He wasn’t helped by some of the tactics, (like playing lone mid against Villarreal). His shoot on sight policy for example is absolutely bogus, he needs to cut it out.
Lost the ball in dangerous areas at times as well, which thankfully led to nothing.
Let’s not talk him up just because we hate certain others. He needs to fix up quickly before he finds himself in the Lacazette/Auba bracket -he will be labeled elderly and overpaid if he keeps this up.
Arsène always understood xG way before it was a thing. Your chances of scoring improve exponentially the closer you get to goal. Long range shooting is very wasteful.
Partey has potential though, and I'm sure will come good if 2 things happen 1. the management finally get around to fixing the midfield instead of buying multiple defenders 2. we get an experienced coach who knows what he's doing.