Willy Gnonto in the form of his Leeds United career
Willy Gnonto in the form of his Leeds United career
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00:00N'Anto was just, we should talk about him because his last three performances for me have been outstanding.
00:07He is just the outstanding player for Leeds right now and so help me God, Italy under-21s, if you harm a hair on his head while he's away this week playing under-21s football.
00:19Under-21s football!
00:21Could he not have developed a slight cramp in his calf or something on Friday night after the game?
00:30He's been great. He's been really, really good. He's creating chances for others. He's creating chances for himself. He's beating players.
00:37I think I might write about this at some point, about how ball dribbling is still, for me, the best thing in football.
00:46Remember Bielsa, when Maradona died, lamented the loss of dribbling from the game and how the world's best player was not a dribbler,
00:53because it's basically Mbappe who just punts it 30 yards ahead of you and him and then gets there first.
00:59Willy N'Anto, he's a different kind of ball carrier or dribbler to Somerville or even Router.
01:07There was a moment at Norwich and I think there was another one again at Sunderland where he was surrounded by three or four bodies
01:14and he emerged from that clutch of players with the ball and you think, how the hell?
01:19I know he's small, but how the hell has he come out of there?
01:21And it reminded me, do you remember the clip from an Attenborough documentary that went viral of the little lizard running across this bit of sand
01:30and then all these millions of snakes come after him and they coil around him and then he manages to break free and scrambles up the rocks?
01:36That's exactly what it reminded me of when N'Anto came out of the tangle of slithering Norwich snakes to freedom.
01:46I do remember that. It's a very good clip.
01:49He is great to watch at the minute and he's one of the best things about Leitch United's play.
01:55And for me, we kind of laid down the challenge, well everyone kind of laid down the challenge,
02:00can he be the main man now that Somerville's gone and can he do what Somerville did?
02:05And it looks to me like he's very much picked up that baton and he's twirling it and throwing it high in the air and catching it again.