Claudio Marchisio (82 Viewers)

Cronios

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Jun 7, 2004
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Marchisio and Pirlo will compete for a starter place, let the best man win, who ever wins, it will be for our benefit.
I just hope that in the other spot Pazienza's competitor wont be Italian (Aquilani)
 

Bjerknes

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Mar 16, 2004
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I really like Marchisio and I'd love for him to reach the level where he's worthy of our armband, but to be honest the criticism of him is valid.

Sure, he's been played out of position for most of this season, but even when he played in the middle, he'd go missing for long spells.

Like you said, he's very technically gifted and barely puts a foot wrong, but I often look out specifically for Marchisio when I'm watching our matches, and he just doesn't impose himself on the game enough.
Very technically gifted? :wth: In what areas of the game?
 

gray

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Apr 22, 2003
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Very technically gifted? :wth: In what areas of the game?
As Adrian said, his close control and dribbling are quite good, and you'll rarely see him spill a first touch or make a wayward pass.

The problem is that he has a high percentage game without big numbers to make those percentages impressive.
 

Bjerknes

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Mar 16, 2004
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Close control, OK I can see that, but dribbling? That's taking it too far. He never runs at players even when he plays on the left side. Doesn't really beat anybody because he can't.
 

gray

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Close control, OK I can see that, but dribbling? That's taking it too far. He never runs at players even when he plays on the left side. Doesn't really beat anybody because he can't.

+ you could argue that 'that' Inter goal required some dribbling.

A two minute Youtube search brings up a couple of examples of him showing some dribbling ability. Like I said, the times he does these things are few and far between, and by no means am I saying he's the next Ronaldinho, but he has it in him.
 

Bezzy

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Jun 5, 2010
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Close control, OK I can see that, but dribbling? That's taking it too far. He never runs at players even when he plays on the left side. Doesn't really beat anybody because he can't.
he is after krasic the most technical talent of the whole squad everyone who can't see that is just stupid in football knowledge
i am sure conte will give him his last push to become the best and won't let him play on the lw in a 4-4-2 cos that was just disrespectful to the talents of Claudio dumb neri
him and inler in a 4-2-3-1 formation would absolutely shine and would make looks milan and inter midfield as a bunch of old clowns
 

Bjerknes

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ngtHv4g8A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnflv20YCjw

+ you could argue that 'that' Inter goal required some dribbling.

A two minute Youtube search brings up a couple of examples of him showing some dribbling ability. Like I said, the times he does these things are few and far between, and by no means am I saying he's the next Ronaldinho, but he has it in him.
I had a feeling the Frosinone video would be one of them. Gotta love YouTube evidence.

Here's a simple argument. If he had it in him, then why doesn't he do it more often?

Answer: Because he doesn't have it in him.
 

gray

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Apr 22, 2003
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I had a feeling the Frosinone video would be one of them. Gotta love YouTube evidence.

Here's a simple argument. If he had it in him, then why doesn't he do it more often?

Answer: Because he doesn't have it in him.
I think Youtube evidence is perfectly valid in this case, because the problem with Youtube videos is that they don't give an accurate representation of what a player does on a regular basis. I'm not saying that he does it on a regular basis; in fact, my original post (which was actually a criticism of Marchisio to begin with!) was clearly saying that he has the ability, but he doesn't do it often enough.
 

Kasaki

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Jun 1, 2010
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I think Youtube evidence is perfectly valid in this case, because the problem with Youtube videos is that they don't give an accurate representation of what a player does on a regular basis. I'm not saying that he does it on a regular basis; in fact, my original post (which was actually a criticism of Marchisio to begin with!) was clearly saying that he has the ability, but he doesn't do it often enough.
:agree:
 

Bjerknes

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Mar 16, 2004
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he is after krasic the most technical talent of the whole squad everyone who can't see that is just stupid in football knowledge
i am sure conte will give him his last push to become the best and won't let him play on the lw in a 4-4-2 cos that was just disrespectful to the talents of Claudio dumb neri
him and inler in a 4-2-3-1 formation would absolutely shine and would make looks milan and inter midfield as a bunch of old clowns
And when he doesn't become the "best", what will the excuse be then? Lack of solar flares?
 

Bjerknes

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Mar 16, 2004
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I think Youtube evidence is perfectly valid in this case, because the problem with Youtube videos is that they don't give an accurate representation of what a player does on a regular basis. I'm not saying that he does it on a regular basis; in fact, my original post (which was actually a criticism of Marchisio to begin with!) was clearly saying that he has the ability, but he doesn't do it often enough.
But isn't the whole point of having skill and ability in something mean actually showing it regularly?

I think it does. It would be nice if that wasn't the way it works; otherwise I could say my shooting ability is class because of two 40 yard goals I scored when I was younger.
 

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