He is showing all the signs that he is done at this level sadly.
Yep not physically 100% (Tuchel already confirmed this) and my worry is he's lost a yard of pace as towards the end of the Man. City game he wasn't reaching some throughballs he'd have got to no problem last season.
Yes. I generally find that phrases like “he’s lost a yard of pace” are typically rather meaningless, but not in this case! There have been quite a few clear recent examples (City, Bournemouth and today) where he was literally half a yard short of a cross or a through ball.
But Tuchel was quite enigmatic in his comments, saying something like Watkins was “playing with discomfort” (which isn’t actually to say that he is injured). Similarly, Unai didn’t describe him as being injured when referring to him in the Leeds pre-match interview.
Also, Unai went out of his way in the post match comments today, to say that like Rogers, Ollie will get his numbers this year.
All a bit mysterious.
