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Absolutely he does - but he is still earmarked by the oppo as the one to shut down - he deals with it now so much better but last season the temptation to dive rather than work through the blocking players seemed to be apparently for him the easiest way sometimes to deal with running out of space!

Yes, we saw this with Mitoma last season (maybe still this season) and with Buonanotte - two other players that attract defenders like bees to honey but even that has an attacking role in itself but yes, they need to deal with it.

Yep - typo - I did get that the wrong way round but it still doesn’t change the fact that when you break it down into minutes, the 14 games out of 17 is not excessive for a 19 year old international, into his second contract in the PL . It also doesn’t change my point above that he came off the...

That’s not strictly true either - notwithstanding my post above where I laid out the minutes he actually has played: In 8 out of 14 games played he wasn’t ‘taken off’ but came off the bench or did the whole 90mins. Otherwise where he came off, he was rotated with Fati on 4 matches which was...

Has he though? When it’s broken down it doesn’t look so bad; Since August 12 when we began our season with Luton at home he has played only 14 out of 17 matches - only 2 of those were 90 mins and only 5 were full halves - the other 7 matches all comparatively short minutes : 15 mins v Luton on...

We don’t thats why he’s staying here 👍