Welcome DebriefSky Sports column in which Adam Bate It uses a mixture of data and opinion to think about some key stories from the latest Premier League matches. This week:
🔴 Robertson’s disturbing decline in Liverpool
🔥 TIEMANS ‘passes under pressure in Villa
🔶 The main game for wolves
Robertson’s physical decline?
“What mess,” Jamie Carragher exclaimed when Andy Robertson’s terrible mistake allowed Fulham to take the lead over Liverpool. “It’s such a bad pass from Robertson’s player’s quality. Then he doesn’t make the header and hit him on his way in.”
For Robertson, his role was in the 3-2 defeat in Fulham – Liverpool the first outside the Premier League home this season – unfortunately timed. The club was associated with “every left back in the world” as Milos Kerkez speaks.
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Premier League the most important match between Fulham and Liverpool
The captain of Scotland was robust in his defense and referred to the “doubts for the first time in a long time” and suggests that a scapegoat is always needed. Talk to Sky Sports He recently recognized criticism.
“I was very spoken about me this season, something I did not try at my time. It is pleasant in one way because I was seven years old I went under the radar, but probably this season is a little more reflector.”
No one would expect a character like Robertson to do nothing but push back against it. Huge respect for his contribution remains. As Carragher said in January: “Robertson is an absolute legend, now there is only hanging in every game.”
Some of the statistical evidence suggest that his game is in decline. Its top speed has steadily dropped in the last five seasons and plunged into a low point during the current campaign. The number of transfer to the penalty box from Robertson is also down.
In 31st, maybe it can be expected. It also reflects a shift in its role under the Arne slot, with less emphasis on its attacking production. This could be timed for him due to his age. Tactically, this change did not hurt exactly Liverpool, chosen champions.
Surprisingly, however, with a greater focus on his defense, Robertson looked so shaking. Although Liverpool won games such as 2-1 victories against Chelsea in October, his own performance attracted incorrect attention.
“There’s something wrong with Robertson for about 15 minutes in this opening,” said Gary Neville, to cooperate Sky Sports. “Usually he is right in the face of his wing, but stands (noni) Madueke. He fits him five or 10 yards.”
In the next Premier League against Arsenal later this month, Bukayo jacket got better, twisting and turning the score. In December, it was sent against Fulham, who was later canceled, but still indicated that everything was not right.
In January, Kostas Tsimicas came to set up an equalizer in Nottingham Forest, which led to some of the Greek left back to get his chance. More competition than Tsimikas is soon waiting for Robertson. It’s a club legend. But the legend is now fighting for its place.
Tiemans’ passes under pressure
There are a number of statistics that, when combined, emphasize why the midfielder Aston Villa Youi Tielemans is such a special player. The first is that no midfielder played more passages under the pressure of the challenge up to three meters from him.
Youi Tiemans Aston Villa plays more under pressure than any other midfielder
This indicates the limited space in which it works. But what makes him so good is that despite this pressure Tiemans also played more of these passages forward than anyone else – 131 of them bypass four opponents.
Youi Tiemans played the most passages by bypassing four rivals
The first thought of your Tiemona is to try to pass the ball forward for Aston Villa
No other midfielder played even 100 such passages, so he tells us that Tiemon does something other than others. It is a product of its scanning ability, an unusual level of consciousness that helps Unai Emery Villa to move the ball along the pitch.
Against Nottingham Forec on Saturday, Tiemans showed what could happen if the team planted and instead gives it space. His oblique passage across the summit to Morgan Rogers for the opening goal of the game in the victory of Villa 2-1 was too good for sleeping Morato.
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The most important of the Premier League match between Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest
Surprisingly, it was his first aid 2025 for Villa, but his form was excellent and Villa relied on him. Incredibly, he started every game not only in the Premier League this season, but also the Champions League and FA Cup.
“He was consistent,” Emery said, talking at a press conference. “We’re trying to find out if she needs rest, but he has done it for a few minutes in Preston and Brighton. He feels good and physically plays 90 minutes more or less comfortable.”
Emery also talked about how important Tiemans were because of his role in dictating the “pace on the pitch”, and this will certainly be tested on two legs against Paris Saint-Germain. Will be under pressure. But his numbers suggest that he can deal with it.
Main game Strand Larsen
Exclude fines and now there are only six players in the Premier League, who scored more goals this season than Wolves Jorgen Strand Larsen. One of them is a teammate Matheus Cunha, whose absence through the suspension risked the rifling wolves.
Instead, the wolves raised 10 points out of their four matches without him and culminated in Saturday 2-1 against Ipswichi on Portman Road, which ended the fears of the descent. Strand Larsen scored the winner. It was his fourth goal in three games.
His role in the equalizer was in fact even more impressive and cleverly timed his run to beat the Offside trap. In December, it reminded his late equalizer in Tottenham, but this time he held the ball and chose Pablo Sarabia on the edge of the area.
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The most important of the Premier League match between Ipswich and Wolves
Jorgen Strand Larsen’s Hold-up Play For Wolves was Standout
The main game Strand Larsen is not flawless, but this season he did it on 71 occasions – most of the Premier League player. It is important that he looked less isolated under Vitor Pereira – and especially since the arrival of Marshall MUNETSI in support.
“Now Muneti is playing close to him,” Pereira explained, “creating spaces, always attacking the first ball. What we felt before was that when Larsen received the first ball, a man close to him to support this ball.
“Now they have a physical player that runs a lot, and every time they create space in the box. This means that when a cross comes, brands walk with Munensi and Larsen freely, and that’s teamwork.” At that time no cunha, but no problem for wolves.
