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The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

Or he could play as a 10 or either side.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

But Semenya, when he's playing up there, he's getting a lot of the ball because he's a player that kind of likes to be in possession.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

He's used to it.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

So Haaland's like, well, I'm not going to get a touch here.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

Now, we're used to seeing him play in a way with three up top, aren't we?

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

Either side.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

the supposed forwards, right side, left-sided forwards.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

And Haaland just has the reign and he can spin behind.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

He'd largely do what he wants.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

Now, he's never been a player that gets involved too much in the build-up.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

I wonder how many times in his career he's played with two up top.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

And it is a different skill because you've got to make your runs off your partner in many ways.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

If he drops in short, you want to get behind him.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

If he goes behind, you can perhaps go short.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

Or he goes left, you go right.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

But if he's not played that way very often because he's always been the main focus up front, it's not...

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

necessarily easy for him you talked about in the first 15 minutes where he would normally be making maybe he's thinking well is Semenya going to go do I I don't know I'm just thinking out loud but you know Alan would have grown up playing with someone else alongside him I grew up playing with someone else alongside me and then it was only in the latter stage of my career I played up top on my own

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

for quite a bit.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

And it is different.

The Rest Is Football
Valverde Dominates, Premier League Disappoints & Pep’s Odd Choices

It's a different skill set.