Can you give a clip or example Pina and Alexia starting together and making an impact on a game against a top team? Because the first major game they played together as starters was in Lisbon. The other major game was this season Chelsea game.
Pina and Alexia out of possesion work is minimal at best. Pina does not press or help in defense in counter attacks. Ale can’t recover balls in midfield. Both can’t win duels.
Pina best quality is shooting outside the box which happens when defenders are tired and she can have space.
Ale needs a winger able to run to get her excellent long passes to the box and take the defensive duties she no longer is able to do like tracking back and help esmee shut down the left band when esmee is too far away.
It is not that they cannot play together is that they play best in a certain context aka not when teams have fresh leg and not under Pere’s fluid system where players have free roles to move in any position which make it hard to recover against vertical teams who have the firepower for quick counter on turnovers
are you completely fucking stupid or did you miss the alexia - esmee - pina goal from this weekend, which happened inside the box and not from long range? and by the way it happened in the first half when defenders were not “tired.”
seriously, these "fans" say that alexia can't play with pina and esmee and literally there's a combo goal from yesterday involving all three. 🙄
and what the fuck are you talking about "alexia can't win duels"? this was against a "top team" in the league and in champions too.
so which one of these three assholes are you?
and you are so wrong because this was from last season's chelsea match too: