Man City is hardly a defensive fortress with them conceding 39 times in 38 premier league matches. so they basically give everybody a goal for free.
Yes, he gave our defence problems, but our defence is not what it used to be. i can understand barzagli having trouble keeping up with the pace of mbappe, but we can not really proud ourselves to be defensively astute if we allow enemy strikers to get a ball at the 5 yard box. we let mbappe get the ball there without properly marking him and we let several real madrid players get the ball basically not 2 meters away from goal just because a few of our players were to lazy to cover the run of some no-name scrub like cristiano ronaldo.
Don't get me wrong. It is still a skill to sneak into the right position, but it is not like he dribbled our whole defense. he just took advantage of the lazy attitude we showed when covering players running into the box. Even filippo inzaghi would have scored against us, with that attitude.
i guess after attention $#@! retards like elia or pogba that is something special for some people, but i would not give out medalls for not being a $#@!ing wanna-be gansta rapper.
you are the only one who mentions Kean. For me kean did not achieve anything yet, because it seems that he only took advantage of being a bit more buffed than the other youth 40kg defender fairies dancing around on the pitch.
yes, let's do that please. so how many goals did Ronaldo (the proper one, not the transgender one) score in his first season for PSV Eindhoven in a league that was dominated by AJAX ? i will tell you: Ronaldo scored 30 goals in 33 matches in 1994/95. He was 18 at that time. talking about DOMINATING
as of right now, scoring a few in one season is not a special feat. even some german udinese striker managed to get 27 goals in 32 games in one lucky season.
Do not get me wrong here. I am not to say he can not turn out to be very good, but right now we have one season where he properly scored and no record of him being a very good scorer in the seasons before. how many seasons did he player kind of competitive football ? probably 2 or 3. afaik he did not have such great statistics in the seasons before the last one (not even on youth level), so what is the chance of this being a fluke. we all know that if he had good statistics on the youth level we would already have 20 "next messi" youtube highlight videos of him scoring against helpless youth teams.
that really depends on how you define "the real deal". Would i call neymar or robben the real deal ? yes. would i call hazard or dybala the real deal ? no. I can not call somebody like dybala the real deal, when he fails to fricking trap a single ball played to him in a champions league game. if i wanted to watch a striker fail to receive a ball and make the ball jump 5 metres of the ball i would insert a tape of world cup 1994 and watch jürgen klinsmann.