Originally Posted by
Steveo
Mount is the only one good on the ball. Impressed with him:
Hendo is no baller, never was and never ever will be. Phillips looked good v a very old and tired Croatia for about 20 Wembley minutes
Yes, but put Hendo in that France midfield looking to pick out the runs in behind of MBappe, Greizman and Benzema with quality medium to long balls as he does so expertly for Mo and Mane, and that fitting exactly how France play and he pisses all every single one of their midfielders at it
It's criminal how you still fail to recognise Hendo's exceptional ability at those kind of passes, because his technique doesn't look as sexy as players who can't play them as well, as accurately, as consistently, as quickly up and down and with the backspin to make them far easier for the forwards or full backs to control
There are even youtubes made by randoms who aren't Liverpool fans with several Hendo longer to medium pinpoint passes included in them
I personally don't give a fuck how sexy a players technique looks, do they have effective technique to play those sort of passes as effectively or more effectively and consistently than most ballers, if the answers yes, which it is, and those passes benefit my team and would benefit most top forwards in top sides as runs in behind and having the players to connect those runs is a feature of all top teams, then they're up there with the very best, even if that's the limit of their top class passing, because having a DM who can do that from deep is absolutely fucking priceless
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