You don't get it do you? No chance in hell that Sissoko should be the closest player to the the defense and the easiest option to pass the ball in the middle. Sissoko as a regista? Yeah right..He would give away all the balls if he was playing there. At least where I put him he can make runs forward which he's pretty good at.
I see this often on these forums, and it appears that people either have never known of a defensive midfielder, playing in a defensive midfield position, as in protecting the defence first and foremost, OR...they assume that any defensive midfielder must be a regista.
I have ALWAYS thought that Momo is better the further back he plays as his passing game is a constant disaster. The further UP the field he plays the more damaging he becomes to our offensive moves. His main strengths are very clearly TACKLING and ATHLETICISM. You don't seem to 'get it' SUNS...
Good at forward runs??? AGreed on the 'running' suggestion...but as soon as he has to actually receive and redistribute the ball, he is a corpse of our beautiful game. Because he has the first touch of an 2 year old boar, and the second touch of a wombat.
Defensive midfielders, players whose main ability is tackling, need to be deployed where they can defend and tackle...not attack. It seems so easy for me to grasp this...but not others.
If Momo is too awful to even be able to play a simple short pass from the defence to a better midfielder, then its lunacy to suggest playing him further up the park, where pressure will be higher and his movement, with the ball, must be quicker and more accurate as he will have the opposing defence and midfield to deal with, rather than just pesky strikers near his own defensive line...