24 Nov 2020 12:17:55
What did people think of Telles in his first PL showing?

I know the overall team performance was not top-notch but considering he has only played two games for us and has been excluded from training due to CV for a while I thought he looked good.

Noticeably his willingness to stay wide and overlap down the left and also his not always successful but attempted progressive forward passing looked promising.

I think with some more time he is going to prove a shrewd acquisition although it will interesting to see how he performs when given and more thorough testing defensively.

Early days but good early signs.

1.) 24 Nov 2020
24 Nov 2020 12:31:06
He has an opportunity now to make that position his own. He looks a lot more dynamic than Shaw. He’s got goals and assists in his locker which we are crying out for right now so hopefully he builds on a decent performance last weekend.

2.) 24 Nov 2020
24 Nov 2020 12:54:47
I think Telles had a decent outing in his PL debut. He does stay out wide and makes those overlapping runs. Although, there was one thing that i want to point out. There were several occasions when Telles had made that run to put in a cross but the ball never came to him, it was recycled backwards or towards the middle of the park. Sorry to say but most of the times it was Rashford doing that.

3.) 24 Nov 2020
24 Nov 2020 14:40:29
Yes Shan. The more they play together, more they can understand each other's strength.

4.) 24 Nov 2020
24 Nov 2020 15:09:32
Agreed TRD. My concern was that its not something new. Shaw too made some runs but again ball was played centrally.

5.) 24 Nov 2020
24 Nov 2020 16:04:04
Rashford plays better on the right.
He has been doing this cutting inside and passing to the centre in a crowded space far too much, then the ball goes wide right to AWB and nothing comes off it.

6.) 24 Nov 2020
24 Nov 2020 16:11:11
Shan,

The left back making a run on the overlap shouldn’t get the ball every time anyway or it becomes a bit obvious, that run pulls the full back out to mark and then there is naturally more space inside, so there is no problem with the off the ball run creating space.

Rashford was poor at the weekend and needs to be more clinical but I have no problem with him cutting inside when the full back has taken his marker away.

7.) 24 Nov 2020
24 Nov 2020 18:24:02
I get you GDS. A team whose parts are playing their roles perfectly would understand that game plan. But how many times have we had an attack from the left this season? You could literally count it on your fingers. As Rohan says it has almost become a norm with Rashford. You know he will cut inside 9 times out of 10 and all the FB needs to do is cut that out and Rashford becomes null.
There is something wrong with Rashford since Feb. Either he is still injured, his head turned, being selfish or simply being poor.

8.) 24 Nov 2020
24 Nov 2020 18:33:44
He did ok in an awful team performance. Nobody played well really apart from ddg.
Maybe he will imorove again tonight and with every game he plays. He has not played much recently.