elia can not offer the workrate and pressing that gaic and pepe offer, so in that regard he's not better
since vucinic is far the best creative ss we got, and we field a creative and pressuring ss
its logical pepe and giac are ahead of elia
you don't know about elia if he doesn't do that
and there is more in football then pressing
if we play against a team who has 10men behind the ball
we can use a creativity one more then a defensive one.
because we have small space to create something
remember the chievo away game where we look clueless.
In such a game you need a player like Elia who can with one action create something.
while pepe only look decent in attackes when we are countering. (with a lot of space infront of him).
Giacherini is not good enough anyway very limited player all though he works hard it is not his fault he isn't good enough.
He has a very weak shot and doesn't have a eye for his teammates.