Setanta Sports commentator and journalist Ihor Boyko shared his thoughts on the performance of Chelsea and Ukraine midfielder Mykhailo Mudryk in the recent matches of the English Championship.
"About Mykhailo Mudryk. I have repeatedly said and written during this season, not only this season, but all year round, that he needs to learn to play football. Recent matches give reason to believe that there is progress in this direction. We are talking about two key points in understanding football, in which he is gradually adding.
Firstly, it is continuity. Almost his main problem is that in a match he plays only with the ball and falls asleep when someone else has the ball. While in defence, the classic problematic Mudryk is at least able to imitate work, in attack, it was a bad performance by an actor in a sitcom, when the actor simply freezes after his line. It is in the continuity that Mudryk adds, and this leads to the growth of his competence in general.
The second important point of his progress is precisely based on this concept. Since an important part of a winger's game is to run into the finishing area, Mudryk did not do this without continuity. In most cases, he found himself in the penalty area only when he ran there with the ball himself. Of course, he is far from being a player worth 70 or 100 million. His first touch is still terrifying, his brain and body show different speeds, and he lacks RAM, to put it bluntly.
His goals against Newcastle in the League Cup and especially against Crystal Palace are an indicator of progress and development. Not goals as such, but the way they were scored," Boyko wrote on Telegram.