Jonathan Wilson: Fullback Atsuto Uchida key for club and country

[Jonathan Wilson]

In October 2008, I flew from Buenos Aires to Tokyo and, in a state of jet-lagged numbness, watched five matches in 10 days. I saw a lot of attractive, organized soccer, much that was technically correct. However, after a while weary appreciation slumped into exhausted grouchiness as I waited for somebody, somewhere, to do something different, to smash the neat conformist patterns and disperse the fog into which my brain had sunk.

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[CJACKO11]

I thought he done ok last night comming forward but at the back he was suspect. I can see him doing well in the PL with a big side though because if he was needed to defend he would be calamatous.

 

[DMF]

He looked ok last night. He struggled against our attack - but I don't know if that's because we were so good or if the entire Schalke team was below par.

Think he'd suit the German Leagues more than the Premier League tbh, but you never know.