He’s stuck between wanting to not give the ball away and knowing that he is a player that is expected to make things happen. So he’s getting the ball, squaring up to his man wondering if he should take him on whilst wiggling his feet, the double team arrives and the safety first thought creeps back in and he passes inside. Makes it look like he’s playing too slowly. To be fair Grealish does the same but for different reasons.
He will be fine if he can just learn to play instinctively angain and without worrying so much about how his performance “looks”.
I can cope with him losing the ball high up the pitch if the rest of the time he is panicking the defenders, getting crosses in and causing a bit of chaos. An overlapping teammate would work wonders.
