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16 hours ago, Smal said:

him being on the left or right has no bearing on his ability to run or to kick a ball in a straight line, like. I don't think his head is in it this season at all. 


I agree with this. Before he joined. It seems like he played more as a right winger in his career based on the below:

 

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/anthony-gordon/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/503733

 

He is just having a poor season and it doesn’t seem to matter where in the front 3 he plays. I thought he has arguably been at his worst on the left. 
 

Not sure if teams have just figured him out and we struggle to get him in space and isolating a defender. He’s a bit below his levels because of injury and/or burn out. Whether it is still a mental thing after we were trying to sell him in the summer. All of the above? 
 

Whatever it is. He doesn’t seem right at all. Not to go all amateur psychologist. But his body language and demeanour seem off. Doesn’t look as arsed about the game, winning the ball back after he’s lost it yet again, tearing about like a dog going after a ball. That was what made him so good.

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He's just knackered having play non-stop for 2 years. He either needs to adapt his game for this season, or he needs a rest. But knowing him, there's no way he'd accept a rest, and Howe won't drop him. 

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His refusal to play the ball down the line to Tino on the overlap sums up his obsession with coming inside and playing square passes instead. He does it too much when on the left, even though I understand wanting to come onto your natural foot, but the fact he also refuses to go down the line on the right, on his natural side, is baffling. 

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On 01/12/2024 at 13:52, timnufc22 said:

His refusal to play the ball down the line to Tino on the overlap sums up his obsession with coming inside and playing square passes instead. He does it too much when on the left, even though I understand wanting to come onto your natural foot, but the fact he also refuses to go down the line on the right, on his natural side, is baffling. 

 

Him and Barnes both. We've signed two left wingers with more or less the same traits. Both are decent players mind, just quite easy to snuff out if you show them outside.

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