We NEED TO TALK About LENY YORO... — Transcript

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1. 0:00[music]
2. 0:06>> Manchester United have just won three of
3. 0:08their 14 games this season. We're 17th
4. 0:11in the Premier League and haven't won a
5. 0:13single away game and have kept only one
6. 0:16clean sheet all season. And somehow, in
7. 0:19the middle of this absolute disaster, a
8. 0:2120-year-old center back is quietly
9. 0:23becoming undroppable at right back. This
10. 0:26is a kid we spent over 50 million pounds
11. 0:29on, and instead of easing him into
12. 0:31English football, we've thrown him into
13. 0:33one of the worst United teams in
14. 0:35decades. Week after week, he's being put
15. 0:38into desperate defensive situations
16. 0:40while trying to adapt to the toughest
17. 0:42league in the world. But here's the
18. 0:44crazy part. Yoro isn't just surviving,
19. 0:47he's getting better while playing in a
20. 0:49new position. Defensively, one-on-one,
21. 0:52and his attacking output are all coming
22. 0:54alive week on week, and he was an
23. 0:57integral part of that comeback win
24. 0:59against Roma. So let's take a look at
25. 1:01what he did well.
26. 1:08So let's kick things off with Yoro's
27. 1:09defensive awareness in that game against
28. 1:11Roma. Here we have Kobbie Mainoo on the
29. 1:13ball in the second minute and he's about
30. 1:15to try a pass into Amad Diallo who's
31. 1:17making a run in behind. [music] This
32. 1:19pass unfortunately gets intercepted and
33. 1:21Roma are trying to get out from the
34. 1:24congested midfield here.
35. 1:26And you can see the five United players
36. 1:28that are in the space.
37. 1:30As Hermoso is about to play this ball
38. 1:31forward, take a look at Leny Yoro's
39. 1:34position. He's ready to jump in between
40. 1:36both Malen and Mora in this area
41. 1:39depending on where the ball goes.
42. 1:41And as soon as the ball does go towards
43. 1:43Mora, Yoro jumps forward in to close him
44. 1:46down, waits for the loose touch from
45. 1:48Mora, and immediately pounces to win the
46. 1:50ball back for United and passes it back
47. 1:52to Maguire. Now I know this seems like a
48. 1:54very simple defensive move, but we've
49. 1:55seen Dalot and Mazraoui screw this up
50. 1:58plenty of times in the past. Now here
51. 2:00have Amad driving forward in the fifth
52. 2:02minute with the ball and he tries a pass
53. 2:04on the outside into Cunha that goes into
54. 2:06this channel.
55. 2:08But unfortunately the pass gets
56. 2:09intercepted [music]
57. 2:12and Roma get the ball into Darun in
58. 2:14midfield right here and United now have
59. 2:16four players in Amad and Bumo, Bruno and
60. 2:19Cunha that are behind the ball and Dalo
61. 2:21who's coming in from an angle so he's
62. 2:23kind of out of the game as well. Now
63. 2:25Euro out here on the far side sees both
64. 2:27Mora and Wesley as the two players that
65. 2:29could run into this channel of space
66. 2:31over here. As Darun gets squeezed out by
67. 2:34by Baleba the passing angle for Wesley
68. 2:36becomes very difficult so he plays it
69. 2:38out to
70. 2:39Mora on the left hand side and Euro is
71. 2:42alive to intercept that pass and as soon
72. 2:45as he does he drives forward and plays a
73. 2:47great pass inside into Cunha and then he
74. 2:50understands that the overlapping channel
75. 2:52is occupied by Bruno here so he makes a
76. 2:55darting inside run into this half space
77. 2:58and [music] make sure that he moves the
78. 3:00Roma defenders with him. And as Bruno
79. 3:02receives this ball and drives this way
80. 3:05we see Euro dropping deep again into
81. 3:07this space to offer him up for a pass
82. 3:10right there.
83. 3:12So in this entire play we're seeing
84. 3:14great defensive awareness from Euro to
85. 3:16read the passing lane and win the ball
86. 3:17back in the first place and then great
87. 3:19attacking intelligence to get into the
88. 3:21right attacking positions when it's
89. 3:23required. Now here we are in the 37th
90. 3:25minute already down two nil and [music]
91. 3:27Wesley and Mora here are trying to
92. 3:29attack down our right hand side. As
93. 3:31Wesley plays his ball into Mora down the
94. 3:34touch line he cuts inside and Euro
95. 3:37tracks his run right here so we see him
96. 3:39trying to mark him. Then Mora cuts
97. 3:41inside and plays it back to Wesley but
98. 3:44right here we see Hermoso who's running
99. 3:46from the left center back position
100. 3:48straight down this channel trying to get
101. 3:50open for a pass from Wesley and Euro
102. 3:52reads that too and cuts out the ball so
103. 3:55that Amad wins it back and now we have a
104. 3:57counter attacking opportunity where the
105. 3:59left center back is completely out of
106. 4:01position and United have a good
107. 4:03to make something happen with all the
108. 4:04space that we have between the five
109. 4:06play, Roma players that we see here.
110. 4:08Now, here comes Euro's best defensive
111. 4:10contribution of the game. Roma are on
112. 4:12the counter attack in the 39th minute
113. 4:13with Moura here, who plays the ball
114. 4:15inside into Marlon, uh, who's near the
115. 4:18center circle. And notice how United
116. 4:20just have Maguire, Heaven, and Dalot
117. 4:23left to defend against this counter
118. 4:25attack. And Lenny Yoro is all the way
119. 4:27back here trying to get back on defense
120. 4:29himself. Now, Marlon turns around and
121. 4:31spreads it out wide to Sule on the right
122. 4:33wing, and we can see this is pretty much
123. 4:35a 4v4 attacking situation for Roma
124. 4:38against United. And pay attention right
125. 4:40here how far ahead Moura is of Lenny
126. 4:44Yoro in the back here. Now, Sule keeps
127. 4:46driving forward as the United players
128. 4:48are also sprinting back, and we see all
129. 4:50the United players kind of, uh,
130. 4:51compacting this defensive area down the
131. 4:53middle so that these guys don't get a
132. 4:55lot of joy. Uh, but as Sule gets to the
133. 4:58edge of the box, he sees that Moura is
134. 5:00in acres of space on the left hand side.
135. 5:02So, he cuts across and plays a pass
136. 5:05through these two players into the
137. 5:06space. And honestly, nine times out of
138. 5:0910, this should just be a goal for, um,
139. 5:11Roma. But he plays this pass, and maybe
140. 5:14there's just not enough power on the
141. 5:16pass that allows Lenny Yoro to come
142. 5:18across and cut the ball in front of
143. 5:20Moura and put it out for a corner kick.
144. 5:22Now, we know that Lenny has these kinds
145. 5:24of last ditch tackles in his locker
146. 5:26because we saw it in his very first
147. 5:27season against Liverpool. And this isn't
148. 5:29even the first time we've seen Yoro put
149. 5:31in a defensive performance like this
150. 5:33this season. Against Tottenham when we
151. 5:34were getting played off the park, he
152. 5:36made five interceptions, six ball
153. 5:38recoveries, and three clearances in just
154. 5:4059 minutes on the pitch. In fact,
155. 5:42[music] his five appearances as right
156. 5:44back this season, he has an average
157. 5:46rating of around seven out of 10, and
158. 5:48that makes him our fifth best outfield
159. 5:51player after Dalot, Bruno, Amad, and
160. 5:53Ambumo in those games. [music] 68% of
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165. 6:03genuinely helps. Now, let's get back to
166. 6:05the video. Next, let's take a look at
167. 6:07how easily he locked down Moura and
168. 6:09Wesley for 90 minutes on the right hand
169. 6:12side of the pitch.
170. 6:15Here we are in the sixth minute of the
171. 6:17game. Dieroon places ball out to Wesley
172. 6:19on the left hand side, and as he squares
173. 6:22up to Yoro here, look at how well Yoro
174. 6:25is jocking him, and there's no obvious
175. 6:28room for Wesley to guess get past Yoro
176. 6:30or even kick the ball down the line
177. 6:32because he knows Yoro has the recovery
178. 6:34pace.
179. 6:35And we also see Ahmad is marking Moura
180. 6:37here, so there's no real ball that
181. 6:39Wesley can play past Yoro either.
182. 6:42So Wesley has no choice but to turn
183. 6:44around and recycle this ball. I know it
184. 6:46might seem trivial to you guys as if
185. 6:48Yoro didn't really do much here, but
186. 6:50executing the fundamentals is harder
187. 6:52than it looks, and we've seen Dalo screw
188. 6:54this exact thing up time and time again.
189. 6:57Next we come to the 11th minute of the
190. 6:58game, and Cristante has the ball right
191. 7:00here after we've just lost it in the
192. 7:02final third. He ends up spraying the
193. 7:04pass out to Malin in the middle near the
194. 7:06center circle, and as he receives it, we
195. 7:08see that Moura is the guy who can sprint
196. 7:11in behind Yoro to get into this massive
197. 7:13area of space right here.
198. 7:15And once we play it a little bit
199. 7:16further, we can also see that Malin
200. 7:19could easily get past Maguire into that
201. 7:21same area of space where either Moura or
202. 7:24Malin could go basically. So as Malin
203. 7:26turns around, you see Yoro isn't
204. 7:28committing to Moura as his guy because
205. 7:30he knows that he needs to cover for
206. 7:32Maguire who has absolutely no pace. So
207. 7:35as we keep moving forward, Yoro is still
208. 7:37jocking, jocking, and as Maguire
209. 7:40inevitably commits to the tackle and
210. 7:41fails, Yoro ends up winning the ball
211. 7:43himself and then plays it out to heaven.
212. 7:46Um so another counter attack is avoided.
213. 7:48I think we have to appreciate Yoro's
214. 7:50reading of the game to realize that he
215. 7:52[music] can't just dive into the tackle
216. 7:54um on Malin or just commit to Moura
217. 7:57entirely when his job is to cover for
218. 7:59Maguire in case he gets skinned. Now
219. 8:01here we are in the 37th minute, and now
220. 8:03Cristante plays the ball [music] into
221. 8:05Moura in uh the half space here, and we
222. 8:08see Wesley out wide again hugging the
223. 8:10touchline. [music] Amadou turns and
224. 8:13plays it out to Wesley, and again he has
225. 8:15to go one-on-one against Euro to get
226. 8:18into the space in behind Euro. But Euro
227. 8:21you know goes up to him and he's jocking
228. 8:22him really well. So Wesley has no choice
229. 8:25but to recycle the ball again, and
230. 8:26that's the second time that Euro has won
231. 8:28that battle. Now here we are in the 51st
232. 8:30minute with Roma in our final third.
233. 8:33Darun has the ball in the middle again,
234. 8:35and he sprays the ball out to Pasili who
235. 8:37gives it to Wesley on the left wing.
236. 8:40[music] And as Wesley tries to take this
237. 8:43ball and attack Euro and come on the
238. 8:45inside,
239. 8:47he takes the tiniest of heavy touches
240. 8:49and Euro gets it out of there for a
241. 8:51throw-in. [music]
242. 8:52So
243. 8:53again, I can't stress enough how
244. 8:55important it is to get the fundamentals
245. 8:57of defending [music] right to cut out
246. 8:59attacks like these. This is the third
247. 9:01time that Euro has beaten Wesley in just
248. 9:03over 50 minutes of game time. And guess
249. 9:06what? In the next 40 minutes, no Roma
250. 9:09player tried going up against Euro even
251. 9:11once because of how locked in he was in
252. 9:14that entire game.
253. 9:16[music]
254. 9:16And we have to compare Euro to how some
255. 9:19of the best teams in Europe have been
256. 9:20using their fullbacks. Look at Arsenal.
257. 9:23Ben White was signed as a center back
258. 9:24and Arteta turned him into an excellent
259. 9:26right back. And then you've also got
260. 9:28Yurian Timber who's another center back
261. 9:31who's become incredibly important to
262. 9:32Arsenal in those wide areas. Pep
263. 9:34Guardiola did the same thing at Man City
264. 9:36with Nathan Ake and Manuel Akanji. Even
265. 9:39Gvardiol who was signed as a center back
266. 9:41has become a massive attacking threat
267. 9:43from left back. And there's a big reason
268. 9:45that managers tend to do this. These
269. 9:47players give you the defensive security
270. 9:49and physicality of a center back, but
271. 9:52also the intelligence and technical
272. 9:53ability to get forward and impact the
273. 9:55game. And that's what makes this next
274. 9:57section that we're about to see so
275. 9:59exciting because we see Euro's attacking
276. 10:01talent from that Roma game.
277. 10:05[music]
278. 10:06So we start in the third minute of the
279. 10:07game where Lamens kicks it long through
280. 10:09the middle, and Roma cleared this ball,
281. 10:11but it lands straight to Ahmad near the
282. 10:12center circle here, and immediately we
283. 10:15see Joro getting on his bike to get in
284. 10:17behind Mora through this curved run into
285. 10:19this massive space that's available in
286. 10:21front of him. As Ahmad lays this off to
287. 10:23Cunha, if he makes the right pass here
288. 10:26into this space that Joro has in front
289. 10:28of him,
290. 10:29Joro can easily get to the byline right
291. 10:32there and [music] cut it across to
292. 10:35Ibouma or Bruno for a simple tap-in. And
293. 10:38this exact goal right here is scored by
294. 10:39top teams like PSG, Man City, and
295. 10:41Barcelona all the freaking time. But
296. 10:44unfortunately, we choose to dilly-dally
297. 10:45on the ball. We miss Joro's run, and
298. 10:48Cunha just wants to dribble forward,
299. 10:50and the attack inevitably just dies. Not
300. 10:52playing this early pass into this space
301. 10:55has been a problem in our team for a
302. 10:58long, long time. We simply do not move
303. 11:01the ball quick enough, and it costs
304. 11:02[music] us every single time. But fair
305. 11:05play to Joro for making the run in the
306. 11:07first place, and honestly, I'm excited
307. 11:09for him to do a lot more of this in the
308. 11:11coming games. Next, we're in the 38th
309. 11:13minute, and Heaven has just played this
310. 11:14ball into Bruno while we're fully
311. 11:16committed into the attack with eight
312. 11:18outfield players right here ahead of the
313. 11:19ball. Bruno finds a channel to play the
314. 11:23ball into Joro who's standing at the
315. 11:24edge of the box here, and as soon as he
316. 11:26receives it, look at him turn around,
317. 11:28lay the ball off to Menu over here, and
318. 11:31then spin in behind to get into this
319. 11:33pocket of space where Menu can ideally
320. 11:35find him. But unfortunately, Menu's pass
321. 11:37is intercepted, and Joro doesn't end up
322. 11:40getting the ball. But I want to take you
323. 11:41guys back here right before Bruno plays
324. 11:44the pass cuz I want you guys to pay
325. 11:45attention to what's happening around
326. 11:47Lenny Joro right here. You got Wesley
327. 11:49and Hermoso marking Cunha and Ahmad at
328. 11:52the edge of the box here, and nobody is
329. 11:54on Joro, and that's why he's, you know,
330. 11:55free to receive this pass for Bruno and
331. 11:57also turn. As he turns to receive
332. 11:59[music] this ball right here, if Ahmad
333. 12:02or Cunha make a darting run into the box
334. 12:05into this space, at least one of these
335. 12:07guys are forced to go with them, which
336. 12:09creates more of a pocket of space right
337. 12:12here for Juro to receive the ball from
338. 12:14Mænum. Instead, we got two statues at
339. 12:17the edge of the box as soon as Juro lays
340. 12:18this off, and he's the only one making
341. 12:21this run, which makes it super easy for
342. 12:23Hermoso to track whoever's going to run
343. 12:25in front of him, right? So despite Juro
344. 12:27making the perfect run and making the
345. 12:29right choice with the past two, nothing
346. 12:31comes of it because, you know, we got
347. 12:33two statues at the edge of the box. Now
348. 12:35we're in the 41st minute and Llorente
349. 12:36kicks it long towards Juro, and he
350. 12:38somehow wins the ball against Wesley and
351. 12:40Darun here and retains possession for
352. 12:43United in a difficult position. And
353. 12:45Bruno looks at this ball and fires it
354. 12:48into Cunha in this half space right
355. 12:49here. And as soon as Cunha is about to
356. 12:51receive this ball, we see Juro get on
357. 12:53his bike to go on the overlap to make
358. 12:56space for the team. So we see Cunha
359. 12:58turning around here and Juro available
360. 12:59on the overlap.
361. 13:01And Juro receives this ball. Now right
362. 13:03here, we see Juro do something that
363. 13:05every goddamn right back in a top
364. 13:07[music] team will do consistently. And
365. 13:10let's see how Amad reacts to it, right?
366. 13:12Juro plays a easy pass behind Wesley to
367. 13:15get into this pocket of space, and Amad
368. 13:18reacts to it
369. 13:19just about as fast as you or me would
370. 13:22if we were playing on the pitch. So
371. 13:24unfortunately, Mora wins the ball back
372. 13:26for Roma and our attack again dies.
373. 13:28Guys, I know some of you were upset by
374. 13:30the criticism I laid towards Amad in my
375. 13:32video covering Lacy, but I just
376. 13:35genuinely need to know how much money
377. 13:37Amad needs to get paid to realize that
378. 13:39Juro can very easily play a ball for him
379. 13:42into this channel. And if Amad makes
380. 13:45that run and gets this ball, he gets to
381. 13:47the byline and plays literally the
382. 13:49easiest cut back in the world for Amad
383. 13:52to score into an empty net. Instead,
384. 13:54he's just lurking in this space waiting
385. 13:55for something to happen. What more is
386. 13:57Juro supposed to do?
387. 14:00Now we go to the 54th minute here where
388. 14:02both Cunha and Juro do a decent job of
389. 14:04keeping the ball. Juro eventually cuts
390. 14:07back and plays it out wide to Amad on
391. 14:09the wing. And as soon as he does that,
392. 14:10he spins to get into this massive area
393. 14:13of space that's behind these three Roma
394. 14:15players so that Ahmad can play a simple
395. 14:17pass to him on the outside. [music] And
396. 14:19this time Ahmad does a great job of
397. 14:22playing a decent ball into Euro, but
398. 14:24Ballo-Touré is alive to it so he uh gets
399. 14:27across and cuts it out. So you guys can
400. 14:29see how much Euro is contributing to our
401. 14:31attacking play while locking down the
402. 14:33right hand side defensively. I mean we
403. 14:35can clearly see that the runs he's
404. 14:37making in many cases are better than the
405. 14:40balls that he's receiving from his
406. 14:41teammates.
407. 14:42And if you think I'm exaggerating about
408. 14:44how well Euro has been playing, let's
409. 14:46listen to what Carrick had to say about
410. 14:47Euro before the Roma game.
411. 14:49>> Just had bit of a tendon really, so it's
412. 14:52um
413. 14:52it's one of them that kind of comes and
414. 14:54goes, but he's been been managing it and
415. 14:55he's been fine. I think he's been
416. 14:57fantastic to be honest. I think he's one
417. 14:58of our best players and he has been
418. 14:59since he came back first day pre-season.
419. 15:01He's he's impressed us all a lot. So
420. 15:03I've been delighted with with with Lenny
421. 15:05and his performance.
422. 15:06>> So not only is Euro killing it at a new
423. 15:08position, but he's been doing it while
424. 15:10playing at less than 100% fitness. And I
425. 15:12think this is the most exciting thing
426. 15:14about Lenny Euro right now. We spent £50
427. 15:17million on him because we believed him
428. 15:18to be one of the most exciting prospects
429. 15:20in Europe. And two years down the line,
430. 15:22we're watching him put in these
431. 15:24performances at a brand new position.
432. 15:26And he's doing it in a team where the
433. 15:27defensive structure is an absolute
434. 15:29disaster. Now I'm not saying Euro is the
435. 15:32finished article here, but the
436. 15:34combination of his defensive
437. 15:35intelligence, recovery pace, one-on-one
438. 15:37defending, and the attacking runs we've
439. 15:39just seen could make him one of the best
440. 15:42right backs in Europe. And honestly
441. 15:43because of injuries and a guy named
442. 15:45Diogo Dalot, he is our best right back
443. 15:48right now, which means we might finally
444. 15:50develop a great world-class player even
445. 15:53if it is by accident. Let me know what
446. 15:54you guys think in the comments down
447. 15:56below. Were you as impressed as I was
448. 15:58with Euro in the Roma game and in
449. 16:00general since he's been playing at right
450. 16:02back this season? Thank you guys for
451. 16:04watching and I'll see you next time.
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