@ 1:41 = you can see they know he is capable of beating one man so they don't have a choice but to send a 2nd guy to try and close him down.
@ 2:19 = again, a 2nd defender rushing out opening up space for dybala then lays it back to cuadrado running into space...creating absolute havoc for the defense
@ 3:02 = ...watch him when Morata misses
@Jem83 @Bianconero_Aus
@ 3:35 = again 2 defenders trying to double down
@ 3:58 = 2 almost 3 defenders.
@ 4:44 = same
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Clear as day, folks. Get him the ball on the right and let him work his magic.
Will try to illustrate the contrary
0:22 moves forward , dybala gives him the ball and if he had kept himself onside would have been 1vs1 with the keeper .
0:53 again attacks space and puts himself in a very good position to give a dangerous cross
1:41 they do send 2 man to mark him , but they also close him down perfectly . They give him no options except to give the ball backwards .
1:57 Gives the ball to khedira and makes a run forward , gets served by khedira , imediatly gives it to dybala who should have passed it back in that instance and we would have created another great chance
2:18 Now this is a chance when his decision to dribble is very correct imho , tries to get past his opponent in a position that if he succeeds could have given a very dangerous pass , but yet again he is forced to give the ball back . Imediatly after he attacks space gets served and we create another good chance for a cross which doesn't conclude well .
2:52 again makes a great movement forward khedira launches the ball to him and creates a scoring chance which morata messes up .
3:20 Seen him do this or try to do this very often , dribbles in the midfield line , or almost always tries to . In this case the opponent gets a yellow , but generally it's pretty useless because as soon as he passes the first he is closed down by 2 people afterwards and he simply gives the ball backwards . In some cases he tries to dribble and succeeds most of the time , sometimes he aims to dribble , but in the end decides not to and gives the ball back in this situation which terribly slows the game down .
3:35 2 people mark him and again he simply is forced to play it backwards .
3:58 carbon copy of what generally happens , dribbles one , two others come and he plays it backwards .
4:21 illustrates what I said in 3:20
4:44 Same as all other situations sees forward to dribble 2 people in front of him keeps the ball for 2-3 secs decides not to dribble and gives it back . Only thing got out of this is lost time .
To sum it up , it's clear that the situations where he has been more dangerous have been the ones when he has attacked space . All the dribbles he does in the midfield line have been almost completely useless at this point . Imho he should attack space more , most of the time this will lead to him either being in a good position to cross or be on a 1vs1 situation in which if he succeeds he will most probably be on a great position to score differently from all the dribbles he does in midfield which only leads to him being closed down by 2 players after passing the first one . His dribbling is a great weapon , but unless you are maradona and can pass them all it's useless to start dribbling everyone from the midfield . Imho he should try to go further down the pitch and try to dribble only in the final third of the pitch .
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