Lol why don't you educate us? Kroos is a magnificent talent but he has mo work rate. He has been an issue defensively for a few years now. And as brilliant of a passer that he is, he only helps maintain control and doesn't help create much going forward. High passing percentages are nice and all but I'd rather have vertical play and intensity in work rate
The players people rave about here (Ndombele for example) aren't really doing all that hot either. Pretty funny.
Kroos is the ultimate scapegoat. He is the reason why we suck. He is the reason we have troubles in our lives.
Can you name one poster who’s said this? The consensus is that he is part of the problem, I don’t recall anyone saying he is the only problem or even the main one.
Ramos has also been pretty terrible, Marcelo average at best (at least Mendy seems competent), Modric multiple steps behind or injured. Only decent performing players this season have been Benzema and Bale, James pretty good overall, Mendy with some decent showings. The rest have been easily replaceable. More than that, we don't seem capable to adapt in tactics and figure we might as well burn all our money in the same slot machine to hit the jackpot at some point.
Dude that's some clown's poorly thought out sock. Apparently I don't respect them enough to respond to their main account so they decided to make another.
Definitely the worst player in the squad alongside Varane, Carvajal and Courtois. Does not exploit space between the lines while attacking, and has zero continuation movement in depth after made pass. Mostly recycles possession. Constantly killing tempo. While in defense, he is slow and constantly late in covering space and players.
What space ? What lines ? Have you watched us ? The only reason he is passing sideways or even backwards is because that are the only outlets.
The reason we play bad to you guys is : Marcelo, Carvajal , Courtois , Varane and Kroos are out of form. Even Modric who just won the Bd'O isn't good enough. And on the other half we have : we should have kept Morata , Llorente , Ceballos ! They would have played better. The real reason is we have no system. Zero. Nada. Niente.
Do you need dictionary definition of space? Have you heard of defense, midfield and forward line? Usually expressed because of zonal defending? Have you heard of triangles? Continuation movement? Etc... The only reasong he is passing sideways is because his positioning and movement is shit. Specifically wide and deep. The end result midfield outlet which should provide triangles with: 1. LB, CB 2. LB, LW 3. LW, CF 4. CM, DM/CDM etc... is missing in crucial position to provide creative play. This usually causes Benzema to drop deep, which provides even less presence upfront while impairing creative play in final third by also isolating LW and RW. It also allows opponent to position more high up and effectively press us.
Except that you are pointing out players that are well over 30 for basically having list a step and really only being able to get to 99% but never 100 again. The real culprits are the players who should still be in their prime but don't even seem like Victoria Secret models and Salt Bea could get them excited. Then there's Courtois, I'm beginning to sound like a broken record but I didn't think he was this bad when we signed him. He'd barely make an adequate backup at this point because you know if he plays exactly what the other team has to do to score.
Toni Kroos v Club Brugge- Assists: 1- Touches: 117- Accurate passes: 92,9% (79) - 8 key passes - Long balls (acc) : 11 (9) - Interceptions: 1- 3 tackles won- 6 ground duels wonKroos created the most chances (9) in the match #ToniKroos #RMCLU pic.twitter.com/PZnvqqbhT4— TK (@TK8Pic) October 1, 2019 People in transfer thread: sElL kroos nExT sUmMer
and again had two weak shoots from very good positions and missed tons of chances to make more riky pass when it was possible. No one denying he is very good player but sometimes he must risk more.
Kroos has been great since the Sevilla game, arguably our best player along with Casemiro. But that doesn't excuse his laziness and lack of impact for 2+ seasons. His criticism was well deserved and he should honesty have been benched already before his recent string of good performances
Lol dude blew two 100% chances. Where are your stats in that? If we're smart we're replacing both Modric and Kroos, because both as if now are more likely to cost us a match then win us one.
Modric gave away the ball that cost us second goal. I'd sell him before kroos. For some reason he's protected and defended all the time at the expense of thrashing the German
This: Modric also had a lot of bad matches but he was always putting more work and trying something while Kroos. One of them even got the golden ball, I don't know how you can even compare them. I also like Kroos after Paris game. If he continues like this then there is no argument at all if he needs to be sold.