Probably our least effective player unfortunately, thought he should have been replaced a bit earlier.
Yep, I agree with this.
How can anyone rate Igor as a 6? He was the best player on the pitch!
That's a strange plus side to pick, his passing accuracy was only 1.8% higher than Gross's yet Gross completed 37 more passes than FB!He lacks physicality still and is not up to 90mins yet - he looked fatigued last night - but physical strength will come.
In fairness to Facu, the change of tactics left the CAM area a bit redundant a lot of the time as far as he was concerned - with both FBs playing almost box to box and such heavy loading on the wing - over 50% of the attacks were down the left side (and Mitoma frequently cutting inside and Gross moving into a no.10 position at times so occupying a lot of the central space too) - I think Facu just struggled to get involved tbh or create the space off the ball he usually does - when he did get on the ball, he was so heavily marked by Brentford’s central defenders falling quickly back into narrow deep block when we attacked, he was easily dispossessed. He made a couple of dubious decisions and could have been more aggressive - the second half was better for him. It was a difficult game for him to shine in. Roll on the next one.
On the plus side his passing accuracy was higher than either Mitoma or Gross
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And (which is arguable) - Sky Sports rated him as a 6, along with VH, Steele, Igor and Pedro
I think the thread is actually very fair? As far as I can see he is getting a lot of leeway for his age and experience. He's been praised when he's done well and critiqued in the area's he's struggling in. He's not going to be praised as much as Ferguson, Enciso or even Hinshelwood as he hasn't contributed as much as them yet.
You picked one sentence out of context in a whole paragraph about his overall performance and you chose to run with that and laugh at it - how odd. I already said why I thought he struggled to get involved. Facu has a good passing accuracy, however many times he passes the ball, it’s a percentage figure of accuracy- not who made the most numbers of accurate passes made.That's a strange plus side to pick, his passing accuracy was only 1.8% higher than Gross's yet Gross completed 37 more passes than FB!
But comparing him to Gross's stats??! I know you're keen to promote this lad at every opportunity but that is not helping!
Every player is rated after every match - I have often mentioned Facu’s passing accuracy previously - as for being ‘keen to promote him’ it has been more a case of defending him from scapegoating and more criticism than is fair for a developing 18 year old.But comparing him to Gross's stats??! I know you're keen to promote this lad at every opportunity but that is not helping!
People aren't being particularly harsh though, are they? What they say is true - he's not too effective, he's a bit lightweight etc. That's not to say he won't improve, but right now hes lacking in some areas.
Some of the comments on this thread have been extremely harsh.
Yeah. I thought he was OK last night. No one develops at the same rate. Doesn't have the effervescent confidence of enciso so is going to work a different way. But he was tough in the tackle a few times and did his job unspectacularly. He's not showing anything 'amazing' yet but will take time with him. I wonder if he'd have been out on loan I'd enciso wasn't injured / we weren't in europe
