Skriniar - Romagnoli

[Marshy@Atletico]

In the close season Atletico Madrid signed Milan Skriniar from Ac Milan with Alessio Romagnoli going the other way. The move was seen as Atletico getting an upgrade with Milan compensated in other areas of the side. At the time of the move Skriniar was 22-rated tackling skills with Romagnoli 21-rated.

M_Skriniar 28 slo 1 22 16 12 27
A_Romagnoli 28 ita 1 21 14 13 23

Lets have a look at how the two players have performed this season

Key Tackles
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M_Skriniar 9
A_Romagnoli 24

Key Passes
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M_Skriniar 18
A_Romagnoli 16

Shots and Goals
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M_Skriniar 12 shots 0 goals
A_Romagnoli 7 shots 2 goals

Assists
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M_Skriniar 0
A_Romagnoli 1

Disciplinary
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M_Skriniar 14
A_Romagnoli 4

Man of the match displays
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M_Skriniar 0
A_Romagnoli 4

Minutes played
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M_Skriniar 1219
A_Romagnoli 1484


Romagnoli has since progressed to a 22-rated defender and is quickly making the expenditure that Atletico lavished on Skriniar look like a Del boy market trader mistake. In every department Romagnoli has outperformed Skriniar barring a couple of key passes.

The bigger question that will be asked by not only the Atletico Madrid board but also the dark arts combo is whether this is down to the coaching ability of one Jason Hopton. Some media exchanges noted across the league have suggested that Ac Milans start is purely down to goalkeeping skills. This in fact is not true. Milan are preventing and then making their opponents miss the goal and ultimately that comes down to good defending also. Milan have conceded just 114 attempts to their opposition this season in the league beaten only by Roma's 106. Jason Hopton appears to have instilled a never say die attitude amongst his side and Romagnoli is appearing to enjoy his time working under an elite coach.


February word count
07/02 Skriniar - Romagnoli 303
03/02 The ESMS gods are crazy - 254 + stat work
03/02 The ESMS gods are crazy part2 - 187 + stat work
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total 744 + stats

[JasonH@Wolfsburg]

Hopton: “As soon as I saw the headline come out, I thought, hear we go. Marshy is talking about me, yet again. His family must be sick of it, im the number one dinner table yet again.

I model myself on a great manager called Diego Simeone, a manager that Marshy should know due to being a legend in Atletico Madrid. Unfortunately for Atletico they have ended up with the wrong Argentine impersonator, with Marshy giving his best Pochettino impression this season.

The question I would be asking, has Marshy lost the dressing room?”