Roberto Martinez
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Podcast Appearances
But clearly, if you cannot be certain, the referee's decision should stand.
And I think that's what happens in this case.
So your man lost his goal anyway.
I don't think he was too bothered about that.
I mean, he gets the same joy by scoring or assisting, and I think either case he had a great hand on that goal.
Yes, yeah.
I think it's difficult to give him...
a proper description of what his talent is.
I've never worked with a playmaker that he can work at a faster pace than what the game brings.
I think any playmaker, we used to see the player that slows the tempo down, that needs to get two seconds to think, two seconds to find that pass.
Kevin De Bruyne, he does it all so quickly that he sees the pass even before any spectator has seen it.
And that's the dynamic playmaking that he has.
In the final third, there is no another player in world football that he has that precision and execution.
Every ball in the box is exactly the same, the same level of precision.
So you can see Manchester City, already the runes, they are never into feet, they're always into space.
They know where the ball is going to go.
I just feel Kevin De Bruyne, with the intensity that he brings in his play, he makes him a unique playmaker in world football at the moment.
Paulo, you're not going to find another player.
In the World Cup, he played as a sitting midfielder, as a number six.
Then he played in other games as a number eight, having a bit more flexibility in between the boxes.