He barely even attempted to win any air duels. Does that sound like Mandzukic to you? He clearly was playing through some sort of injury. Even so, he still dragged Godin away from Ronaldo.
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He did not drag Godín away from Ronaldo. Do people really think that Atletico forgot about one of the greatest strikers who ever lived to double up on Mandzu. Or could it perhaps be that Ronaldo has a 1,5m vertikal jump and he is impossible to mark.
All Mandzu did was provide an extra body in the box, a job all physical strikers could do. Apart from that he lost almost all duels he went into, and lost the ball multiple times.
He have not scored a goal in 3 months, in general looks like the weakest link in almost all our games, and people keeps praising him on Tuz, and apparently I am the one who is unable to have an objective conversation about the guy.
All Mandzu did was provide an extra body in the box, a job all physical strikers could do. Apart from that he lost almost all duels he went into, and lost the ball multiple times.
He have not scored a goal in 3 months, in general looks like the weakest link in almost all our games, and people keeps praising him on Tuz, and apparently I am the one who is unable to have an objective conversation about the guy.
I think that if the team was to play without Mandzu, it would be a lot harder to put the same amount of pressure on their backline (regarding crosses and headers in the box at least). I don't know how Atletico set their defense up, but it appeared to me that Godin was on Mandzu most of the time - and even if Mario had a bad performance it definitelly freed up Ronaldo. It's also reasonable to say that this might have been Allegri's plan.
Imo, if Dybala played instead of Mandzu, Godin would 100% be on Ronaldo the whole time (unless he goes wide). Also regarding just physical presence and aerial threat in the box, Kean comes no where near Mandzu. From what we've seen from Kean so far, I think he'd be great against teams that put pressure and play attacking football. He'd be great at disrupting midfields, counter attacks and creating chances for himself by overruning one or two defenders - very explosive and strong on the run.
Imo, if Dybala played instead of Mandzu, Godin would 100% be on Ronaldo the whole time (unless he goes wide). Also regarding just physical presence and aerial threat in the box, Kean comes no where near Mandzu. From what we've seen from Kean so far, I think he'd be great against teams that put pressure and play attacking football. He'd be great at disrupting midfields, counter attacks and creating chances for himself by overruning one or two defenders - very explosive and strong on the run.
I don't want to see him play for a few games and I am not buying the "creates space" thing, naturally a striker has to move and create space for midfielders and other strikers, that's the very least a striker can do. He has been sitting on the wing for half the second half until he got substituted. If he doesn't get his shit together soon, we need to have a serious look at the striker position this summer.
If Ronaldo isn't playing, neither should Mandzukic. He literally exists to be a nuisance and take attention from CR. If CR isn't on we have a striker who is barely in a position to actually score.
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Yeah funny how our top scorer, CL saviour, statistically best CL scorer of time, 5 time "world's best player" and potential GOAT gets more leeway than our 10 goal a season striker.
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Yeah funny how our top scorer, CL saviour, statistically best CL scorer of time, 5 time "world's best player" and potential GOAT gets more leeway than our 10 goal a season striker.
