Or maybe he's playing in his best position for once and has the freedom to basically run wherever he wants rather than playing out of position on the left wing
Sorry, my mistake. I forgot being asked to play left wing means you are allowed to give up entirely and get a free pass to contribute nothing to your team and amble around like absolutely nothing.
Even if he was asked to play in f***ing goal I'd have expected to see more from him this season. He's been nothing better than disgraceful for 30 games this year. No excuses can be made for him.
Oh he doesn't try, that must mean full backs have been destroying him all season getting assist after assist as Sissoko stands on the half way line waiting for the ball. Nah what actually happened is that Sissoko always tracked his man and full backs very rarely got any chance to attack down his side. What did people expect of him when playing out wide? To just totally leave the flank and come inside and hassle the centre midfielders and leave the full back free reign to do whatever he wanted? He's clearly played badly in some games this season but when has he not tried when he's been playing on the wing, when has a full back been allowed do what he wanted? The only game I can think of is Norwich at home where he got about 4 assists to cancel it out anyway
Sorry like, but F1F0 is correct for me.
Sissoko has had a shockingly bad attitude all season and whether he likes playing there or not he has shown a total lack of dedication and professionalism for about 25.5 of the games this season. The one really good half he had was that second half against Norwich, who are s**** and maybe one or two decent games against the better sides in the division.
On his day, he can be a beast and almost impossible to handle, whether on the right, left or up the middle shouldn't matter such is his physicality. What we have seen under Benitez is him looking like he gives a s*** and even at full back being better than he has been most the season on the wing, which would seemingly be more suited to him.
Sissoko proved last night that he should be played where he was (CM). He controlled the midfield and Colback and Tiote swept up behind him. We looked like we had some sort of balance and some sort of fight.
Again though, it's one performance too few still at the moment. If he continues in this vain and we stay up maybe I'll forgive him.
Let's also not lose sight of the fact we now have a world class manager, the Euro's are coming up and we're likely to be going down - all great reasons for him to up his game.
The one thing I will say is I can understand why the players might have been totally uninspired to play for this shambles of a club until Benitez came in like. At least some of the players remained professional though...
If his attitude was so bad then why did the full backs up against him almost never do anything going forward? Why did he create the most chances in our team by a mile for the majority of the season? Why did he put in such a good shift when put left back?
Sissoko's been very poor this season but you can't accuse him of being lazy.
