On Griezmann:

1. There are valid critiques to his football beyond price tag. That a WC winner is having difficulties understanding our football points both to its uniqueness and the way it's changing.
2. His off-ball movement+compensating role is rightly praised.
It provides balance to a system that needs it. What happens off-ball isn't any less important than what happens on ball.
3. Like that RK has realized importance of keeping forwards wide with Ansu, tho playing more centrally suits AG more. Compromise.
It is a less drastic change of system when the width is maintained, and creates more space for 10 in Coutinho who needs it. Why we see Coutinho and not Riqui there (tight spaces). Body shape, farthest foot, turns, dynamism etc.
4. The supporters' obsession with/preference for symmetry is really dangerous. No coach cares about symmetrical pass maps. There is no problem attracting more on the left and have it being the dominant side.

Welcome the asymmetry. Some of our players already have.
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