Alvaro Pereira

[CafeCordoba]

I have yet to see Pereira to function in any role.

 

[Pajo]

There is big difference. As a LB, you have space in front of you to run into. A LB usually builds up pace much deeper and has some momentum to take on players, this happens much later for a LWB. Not to mention that a LB will have some overlapping options with a midfielder or winger ahead of him. The LWB doesn't have too many options to combine with.

IMO, left back, left wing back, left midfield, left winger all require different characteristics. While some players can function in multiple such roles, not all can.

Bingo, you saved me some time to type

I have yet to see Pereira to function in any role.

he has had few decent games. He hasn;t been nowhere near as good for the money we spend, but he hasn't been as bad as some claim too.

 

[A.l.i]

I haven't seen those amazing crosses of his which people were drooling over in the summer.

 

[thatdude]

There is big difference. As a LB, you have space in front of you to run into. A LB usually builds up pace much deeper and has some momentum to take on players, this happens much later for a LWB. Not to mention that a LB will have some overlapping options with a midfielder or winger ahead of him. The LWB doesn't have too many options to combine with.

IMO, left back, left wing back, left midfield, left winger all require different characteristics. While some players can function in multiple such roles, not all can.

I understand the difference and agree that there is one. But to me his problems won't be fixed by playing as a left back and that was the point I was trying to make. Poor decision making, poor crossing, dominated by Piris. I don't think change of position will fix all that.

 

[Pajo]

The crossing is imo Stramas idea, he always tries low crosses. We dont have jumpers in the team anyway

 

[Sokrates]

Pereira is a good player, but at Inter we cannot use the players at their best.
Obi could be a hell of a LCM, Coutinho a super winger or SS, Naga a brilliant RB, Cambiasso a great DM. But Strama doesn't use them right, and so it seems all this players are shit.

 

[Sqnalkel]

The crossing is imo Stramas idea, he always tries low crosses. We dont have jumpers in the team anyway

Really don't know what did you see in Pereira and Gargano, not only at their clubs but I've seen almost every Uruguay NT match for years and I've always though they were average to decent, the problem is not even that they've flopped because that happens and they've even played a little below my expectations but I just have never seem anything of what you see in them, I don't really get it it's like we've seem completely different players.

I mean the way you've suggested that Gargano's passing was good, it has never been and it'll never be, his passing has always been average worst than Cambiasso and a little better than Zanetti, he has never had any composure on the ball and his defensive skill has always been at most decent. What he adds is workrate, pressing and speed, that has always what I've seen of him and it's waht his showing at Inter.

Pereira offers physicality, workrate and speed, not much else. He has never been more than a average crosser, basically non-existent technical skills, crappy passer, not that good at getting at dangerous positions, zero creativity and vision, terrible dribbler and absolutely horrible at tight spaces. Another thing he had going for him is he was solid defensively but he hasn't showed that at Inter.

If Management was seeing something else in them like what you seem to have, then I've no fucking idea why, because I've never seem anything remotely like that.

 

[Pajo]

I've seen them only in cups, south american and world cups. Not in friendlies and qualification. Pereira at Porto offered pretty much everything, great crosses for Falcao, great off the ball movement, and so on.

Gargano at Napoli too, he was great, rarely losing balls, and rarely misplacing passes.

 

[Uncommon]

The crossing is imo Stramas idea, he always tries low crosses. We dont have jumpers in the team anyway

Our players don't need to jump, it's not like there is anyone besides our opposition in the penalty area when we are attacking anyway.

 

[Doffy]

he isnt cut out to be a wingback. he is however solid as a defender and as defensive lb in a backfour he would imo be a loot better.
the way we use him or how strama wants to use him is ineffective and doesnt bring out his full potential.

he is being played out of position.

 

[Sassuolu]

I don't know he's usually solid defensively, who knows what happened against Roma maybe it was fatigue I never saw him play that badly. He improved with the team in the second half when he had Juan behind him.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Btw, if Pereira is best as LB, then what the fuck? At LB pos you are supposed to know how to defend. Pereira surely doesn't have a clue how to defend. Also if he can cross only high crosses, then what the fuck? Do we have LB who can cross only high crosses? How useful player is that?

/rant

 

[Wallace]

I've seen them only in cups, south american and world cups. Not in friendlies and qualification. Pereira at Porto offered pretty much everything, great crosses for Falcao, great off the ball movement, and so on.

Gargano at Napoli too, he was great, rarely losing balls, and rarely misplacing passes.

It's like they suddenly become shit once they step a foot in Inter.

 

[Pimpin]

Btw, if Pereira is best as LB, then what the fuck? At LB pos you are supposed to know how to defend. Pereira surely doesn't have a clue how to defend. Also if he can cross only high crosses, then what the fuck? Do we have LB who can cross only high crosses? How useful player is that?

/rant

I'm sorry but except for the last Roma game, Pereiras defending has been great.

 

[Ed.]

It's like they suddenly become shit once they step a foot in Inter.

It's like something new.. Seedorf, Pizzaro, Jimenez.. blivious:

 

[rockball]

Btw, if Pereira is best as LB, then what the fuck? At LB pos you are supposed to know how to defend. Pereira surely doesn't have a clue how to defend. Also if he can cross only high crosses, then what the fuck? Do we have LB who can cross only high crosses? How useful player is that?

/rant

I can count 1-2 games where he made some defensive mistakes. On the whole, he has been very solid in that aspect.

 

[The_Eradicator]

It's like they suddenly become shit once they step a foot in Inter.

Not the first to do it and won't be the last.

Massive pressure and fan expectation, mediocre teammates and a tactically naive coach. We've seen better players come through and leave with their reputation in tatters.

Alvaro at least before this game had a couple decent ones, IMO he's doing a decent if unspectacular job most of the time, think he can still definitely turn into a great player for us given some time and patience.

 

[Wallace]

It's like something new.. Seedorf, Pizzaro, Jimenez.. blivious:

No, kudos to the management, I've become accustomed to it over the years.

 

[Sassuolu]

My only problem with Pereira was that for the price we paid we're not getting our money's worth but he is a decent player on the left.

 

[Wobblz]

TBH I really like how Pereira is doing. Problem is when we play with one god damn forward all of his efforts are pretty much useless and fruitless.