Hopefully he won’t be running around trying to cover the full backs next season and we can actually see the Szobo from the start of this season. The drop in form has been staggering but he’s also got through some amount of running and covering the ground to make up for others lack of athleticism.
The ideal situation would be for him to go away with Hungary, have a good tournament and come back full of confidence. Needs to cut out the loose passes as well.
Everyone keeps on peddling the same claim without showing any evidence for this giant terrible thing we've asked him to do for us.
Here's some data...
By the end of the 1st half of this season he wasn't even in the top 10 players for distance run across the Premier League.
His total distance run was 199.6 km
James Ward-Prowse had run 224 km for West Ham in first and the 10th most was Conor Gallagher of Chelsea at 206.3.
Even rat face at Man Utd had run more than Szobi at 213.7 km.
What exactly is he doing that is so abnormal for a football player, let alone a young fit athlete and that is somehow having a sudden and severe impact on his form?
If it were such a serious detriment to his body it would have been picked up by the sports science team in his blood work that would have shown a slow rate of recovery. Which in any event would have meant we'd adjust the amount of time he'd be playing or how frequently we played him.
Recall also that before he signed for us, he suffered a similarly abrupt loss of form that saw him lose his place in the RB Leipzig team for a period of time. Was that also because they asked him to run too much?
Perhaps the answer is as simple as he's a young player that still has a lot of inconsistency in his game?
