Originally Posted by RichmondBlue:
“It wasn't his best game, but he did come in for some rough treatment. I thought the whole team can hold their heads up after winning a difficult game.”
To be honest, I haven't been impressed with Willian for some time now. I know he offers great defensive displays due to his excellent stamina, but his contribution to the final third has been shocking lately. I've given up on the fact that Willian will be a goal scorer; he isn't that type of player and I've come to accept that. I know Mou has asked him to take more shots (I think it was 3 per game or something along those lines), but it doesn't help when his shots are so damn weak! Seriously...annoying as hell - it's criminal how he doesn't put any power through his shots. So if he doesn't offer goals, naturally, I'd expect him to assist more. But he doesn't do that well either. Just looking at the PL figures so far:
Oscar has 3 goals and 5 assists
Hazard has 6 goals and 3 assists
Willian has 1 goal and 1 assist (in 16 appearances)
To put Willian's performance into further context, Ramires in 8 appearances has 1 goal and 3 assists!
Willian just isn't an effective attacking player. He has pace but he never uses it to beat his man like Hazard does (on a side note, I thought Hazard was fantastic yesterday...i could spend all day talking about him haha, we're
so lucky to have him). Just looking at yesterday's game alone, Hazard made 4 key passes and Willian made 0. Even Schurrle, with his limited appearance made 1 key pass. Ok, Willian can dribble but Hazard blows him out of the water in that department (Hazard made 5 dribbles yesterday, Schurrle 2 and Willian 1). Willian doesn't have 1 attribute which sets him apart from any of our AM. The only reason why he gets to start is because of our high pressing game but if the opportunity ever arrives that we can get a better RW I wouldn't be against the idea.