Could having the Captaincy be distracting Rufer from playing well??
No.
Someone posted stats that Rufer is actually a good midfielder. But he got dragged halftime when he was literally on notice from the coach. I guess the coach did not trust him to bring more forward energy into the game and also don’t think his leadership is needed to turn a game at halftime.
I won’t blame the bad performances on Rufer, all of the team played bad. In dire times many people think a fearless superhuman leader can turn a game, but I don’t think that is how it works.
We also we have to talk about Uffi, he promised us that we won’t play that bad again, and it may was not as shark as the Jets game, but is was very close.
Easiest is to blamed the covid situation, but the team need to turn it around. I hope they can it it to some degree, Hooper is back and new players are also coming into the mix.