I was on the AC stand so saw him closely in the second half. My impression was :
Excellent player Very small Not a wingback
Would agree but he may learn the position as he goes, a few times yesterday he was completely missing at RB when he’d pushed so far forward and couldn’t get back but luckily Ramsey is a machine.
Isn’t this sort of part of the plan of the system though?
I’m sure the system isn’t designed to leave massive gaps on that side when the other team attacks and he has pushed to far forward, I’m sure he will improve though and know better when to stay or go with more experience in that role.
He’s a winger by trade. The main objective of being a winger is to get past basically their entire team so you’re in behind them and at the furthest end of the pitch so the concept of him being “too far forward” is a bit odd; the job we want him to do means by default there are going to be opposition players behind him.
The system is designed to allow him to do that with Ramsay covering as a traditional right back behind him and Apter probably only worrying about defensive positioning when we are reset out of possession/ pinned back into our half - not when they are counter attacking.
I thought it worked well yesterday, Ramsay was great and they hardly caused us a problem for the most part.
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Accurate passes in final third 8/9 (89%)
Ground duels won 4/6 (67%)