On the bench in the 1st leg of the Copa del Rey semi. #AthleticVCF 🦁🦇⚽ 1-1 | ⌚ 74' 🔄 @skoda_es🏟️➡️ @gguedesoficial 🏟️⬅️ @yunusmusah8 pic.twitter.com/fK1wC2FPTB— Valencia CF (@valenciacf) February 10, 2022 Ended 1-1.
⚽Football or American football 🏈 A challenge by @yunusmusah8 🇺🇸#SuperBowl @pumafootball pic.twitter.com/mwRBvwmOVt— Valencia CF (@valenciacf_en) February 12, 2022
Musah in the lineup vs Alavés (Miazga on bench). Google shows him at LM, but they seem to be wrong frequently.
Musah seems to be more inconsistent when playing for his club than the US. It probably has a lot to do with the musical chair positioning. Today he played cdm but a lot of times he is playing second striker or right outside mid in a 4-4-2. Good today: cross-field switches and passing in the offensive corner Bad today (pretty much every game) inconsistent on D. There was a play in the second half where he turned on the jets to run a guy down on a counter. It demonstrates that he has the ability to really be an above average defender. But often in games I see him jogging into position, essentially not giving full effort. I wish he would try and model his game after Weston because I think he could be a very good box 2 box midfielder Feel pretty bad for him today. He ends up hustling in this case to clear a ball and is just a second late. That was a tough point to drop
First viewing of Valencia and they are not good. Their style is hoof and fight. I didn't think La Liga was like that. He is a different player for the US. I don't know why, but they don't play pretty football.
BBC article about Musah and the role of his success in shaping Valencia's scouting and recruitment.Great stuff: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/60418715
Valencia fans are sick of Bordalás and his hoof and run tactics that have the team in the lower half of the table: https://www.informavalencia.com/2022/02/12/2-1-ridiculo-de-bordalas-en-mendizorroza/ Super Deporte comments on two young Valencia players, Musah and Ilaix, among the Top 30 Under 20 in Europe list published by FourFourTwo: https://www.superdeporte.es/valencia-cf/2022/02/15/valencia-cf-2-mejores-30-62761576.html
I caught that. Really interesting to hear how highly Valencia think of him. If you look over the past year at his on field time and success I wondered how much faith they actually had in him. The article sort of flies out of left field it seems. It’s hard to understand why they are writing about Valencia in the first place and then to pick out a guy like Musah to focus on, is a bit perplexing? But very interesting read nonetheless.
On the bench against Barca: ⚽ XI INICIAL 🆚 @FCBarcelona_es #ValenciaBarça 🦇🔵🔴#ADNVCF pic.twitter.com/fjcc5DrZfZ— Valencia CF (@valenciacf) February 20, 2022
Starts against Mallorca (Hoppe on the bench). ⚽STARTING XI🆚@RCD_Mallorca#RCDMallorcaValencia 🔴🦇#VCFDNA 🧬 pic.twitter.com/qSESPcXxko— Valencia CF (@valenciacf_en) February 26, 2022
Great first half from Musah. Could have had two assists if luckier. Looking dangerous making runs off the wing despite being moved further back after the wondergoal
Off the bench: #VCFAthletic 🦇🦁⚽ 1-0 | ⌚ 70' 🔄🏟️➡️ @11BryanGil 🏟️⬅️ @yunusmusah8 pic.twitter.com/ULuNQZqADG— Valencia CF (@valenciacf) March 2, 2022
that's not it. he goes down and stays down... every single time anybody even breathes on him heavily.