It's exactly about holding the ball for too long. It's not about the confidence, he clearly has the confidence to try to get past the player or do different things, but he just simply can't see the best option and that's about lack of game IQ. Im afraid it cannot be fixed, it's one of those things you either have or not. His game will always be about those highlight plays where he got himself into trouble, but manages to fix it by his technical quality behind the ball but in return, he will lose the ball for nothing multiple times for that one highlight.
It has to be this. I dont think is confidence, because apart from costa, he is one of our few players that try to dribble past out of the blue and gets with it. Not many of our players dare to try his luck so often.
The problem is that his final decition is being dodgy at best. And i dont know why he has degraded so much.
In his first season, everytime he came in, he did a killer pass or a shot or asist/goals with the few minutes he received. It was a sight to behold how clucth he was.
He got injured by end season.... Then come his 2bd season, he cut his hair, he got more minutes as starter... and all went downhill.
It is like if he forgot how to do what he knew.