Dortmund seems more willing to chip an early ball against these. That is causing Koln problems. Mostly a boring half with an overmatched opponent hoping desperately to not get four hung on them. Hopefully we can see Weigl at the hour mark. doubt we see CP.
Yarmo looks very good, and Phillipp scored, so more competition which is probably a good thing at this point for Pulisic.
Perfect day for Pulisic, gets to sit back and enjoy an easy victory for his side. Wonder if they will try and get Weigl some time around the 80 minute mark, would seem a smart thing to do.
Pulisic is on👈 @nurisahin & Yarmolenko 👉 @cpulisic_10 & @JuWeigl (66’) #bvbkoe 4-0— Borussia Dortmund (@BVB) September 17, 2017
made his usual runs down the flank, won a corner, overhit a cross. Had a nice interplay with Pizchek. That was about it. Game was put to bed at that point. Both teams were playing at 75% speed, just trying to avoid injury really.
To me classic American system players are Twellman or Wondo. New England built its system around providing in the box service to Twellman, a smallish poacher without great target/holdup skills, pace, shot from distance, or dribbling. Really he had one strength, getting onto the end of balls in the box, and the team played to that. Wondo has a little more all around game but still does his best work playing off of another forward, dropping into gaps. CP is a fast, quick, two-footed, hard working, smart, quick thinking, creative and goal dangerous attacker who can play wide or inside. That's way too much ability and versatility to be a system player. He will thrive more in particular environments but he's likely to always be a net positive presence. He had some down games in tough circumstances, that's going to happen. He has 7 goals and 6 assists in 1,090 minutes for the national team, we just need him to be at least up to his average in the next 180 minutes.
fine post, but how many words have been wasted on this highly effective troll? System player? Come on.
I don't even know what a system player is supposed to be. You've got to be extremely talented to survive and thrive in a system like BVB's at that level, never mind all the different systems Pulisic has played in while at BVB. Emre Mor is a pretty talented little chap, would be top 5 in our player pool yet BVB discarded him. So is he not good enough to be a system player or too good to be a system player? And why didn't Barca save about 100M and just buy a system player instead of Dembele?
Barca bought Dembele exactly because he looks like the sort of guy who'd fit their system: top notch ball control, clean finisher, and able to spot the holes. What they didn't consider, or what they expect fixing, is his excessive selfishness. That's going to be trouble once he's back: La Liga doesn't give room to individual attacks of brilliance, as Bale soon found out. Also, as noted from the start, a great system player is still a very good player outside his preferred system. If anything, we could be looking at molding the way our team plays to fit Pulisic in the next cycle, if he continues proving he's good enough.
Seems to me Dembele is more of an elite player who could fit at an elite club. I don't see how that makes him a system player. You've just got to be elite to play with the elite.
It's a term mainly found in football (gridiron) & rugby. Basically, a player that needs a certain set of tactics and roles within his team to excel. A rather lengthy essay on it can be found here: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...guy-judging-ezekiel-elliott-dak-prescott-more My personal hypothesis, which changes in management and eventually a change in team may prove or disprove, is that Christian Pulisic is a "system player" as the term is used in the NFL. Which does not mean he's a weak player outside his system (BVB under Tuchel), just that he's not as good.
This debate is endless. Is Tom Brady a system player? He's the greatest quarterback in the history of the NFL, but he only played under Belichick's system so we'll never know.