LSD&2Es wrote:Ayling has just never seemed 100% since he came back from injury. His passing and positioning just seem way off and when it results in us losing the ball and being so easy to overload on the break it's an issue.
I get the feeling he needs a couple of steadier games where he takes less risks to get back into the groove. At the moment he's just not on the same wavelength as the rest of the team
yep, it's two, if maybe not career threatening, fairly nasty injuries he's had, ankle this time last yr & then kee towards the back end of the same year, definitely some lingering problems, hopefully the sort of thing that'll get better with time/maye after a close season rest... but, yeah, if he feels he can't accelerate, or change direction, or stretch a leg out to tackle, maybe wrap his leg round the ball, or whatever as reliably as before then potentially many aspects of his game can go to pot, inclyding even his decision making.
bielsa's preference for very attacking full backs doesn't really help either, last night he definitely looked at his best when playing, de facto, on the right of a central back three.
It can be a hinderence sometimes, some women just won't take no for an answer.
