He wasn't even particularly good today but he's always involved, love that too. Shame the shot that hit the crossbar didn't go in.
Might scroll the thread back to the moment he was taking the freekick as I didn't watch the game live. Must have been epic. :lol:
It's just that involvement from a central midfielder that I love, I appreciate Palace would hardly have been pressing us high up. 155 touches is insane.
The stats are eerily similar to an article I read raving about Cabaye for PSG against Leverkusen.
Anita's stats anywhere? I thought he was outstanding today as well - he was really driving and trying to make something, anything happen. He and Tiote were my standout players for the 90 minutes.
119 touches, 96 passes, 89% completion.
His passes are noticeably higher up the pitch on average than Tiote's as you would expect, more passes in the final third than any other player (37 attempts, 28 completed) and 62 of this attemped passes were going forward (compared to Tiote's 66) .
those two beginning to look good together, well, apart from the absolute lack of creativity.