The Rises Of Jordan Henderson
Written by : Andryan Dedy
Who is the most underrated Liverpool Player Last Season? There could
be any answer but without a doubt, Jordan name is echoed up there.
Labeled with 20 Millions Pounds Transfer fee from Sunderland to
Liverpool, People expect something big from the 22 years old midfielder.
"The Next Xabi Alonso" is the standard that they expect. However, He
failed to managed the big expectation from the Liverpool fans and also
"British" media.
Deployed mostly as a Right Midfielder by Kenny Dalglish, People
already labeled Jordan failed to flourish in that position in his 22
years of age and OUT OF POSITION. Winger should have a good dribbling,
good crossing, and must be brave enough to move forward. On contrary,
Jordan has a poor dribbling, decent crossing, decent shooting, and
sometimes he is too "afraid" to push forward with the ball in him. But
People DO forget that "Jordan Brian Henderson" Natural Position is
Central Midfield, His main attribute is actually his good vision and his
pass on the ball.
To backup my opinion, last season, Kenny sometimes tried to play him
in CMF while Lucas is injured, and Jordan managed to done superbly in
that position, to give an illustration, he played just like young Frank
Lampard. But unfortunately, The manager are too stubborn to put him in
the Right Midfielder even though he could see that Jordan has more
potential to play in center more than in right. (I don't blame Kenny's
decision, he might think that there is something that Jordan can
do/learn from that).
This article consist of my defense of one of the footballer that I
admire, Jordan Henderson. the unfair critics of him should be diminish,
the reason is just simply because Jordan style is just doesn't fit with
the Kenny's football. in the right midfield, he "must" dribble and cross
while his real style is a "pass and move" style. he loved to do pass
and movement as well as giving the deadly through ball/cross to the
forward. Jordan lacked of contribution last season is just simply
because the manager failed to see/use his talent. How could you expect
Jordan to play like Xabi while he was playing in Kuyt position? He had
all the quality to be the next Xabi IF he was given the chance to play
in "Xabi's position". So all the criticism and expectation is rather
unfair for this young lad.
The New Liverpool Manager, Brendan Rodgers has footballing philosophy
that with fit with Jordan style. Playing with 4-3-3. The style of 3
midfield that consist of 1 ball winning midfielder (Lucas, Spearing)
that has a job to get the ball and pass it to the teammates, 1 deep
lying playmaker (Jordan, Adam) that has a job to control the game with
passes and gave a through ball to the forward. , and 1 Attacking
Midfield (Gerrard, Shelvey) that has a job to move forward with the
ball, shooting on goal, and gave through passes to the forward. Jordan
can fit the 3 midfield slot as the "deep lying playmaker" directly as
his attribute is matched with that role and hopefully, Next Season will
be the Season for Jordan Henderson to prove his worth to the team and
silence the critics towards him.
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