BBC MOTD Analysis of Ainsley Maitland-Niles

Sure, but he is particularly prone to being too casual imo (shown also in the poor pen he gave away). Sometimes makes really poor passes when under no pressure - I don't doubt his technique, which makes me think it's a mental thing, which I'm pretty optimistic will improve with gametime.

Again, I get that everyone can make these mistakes, but he seems to make it more often than most, especially given his obvious technical and physical talent - still I believe and hope he can come good for the club but we should temper expectations a bit, far from the finished article. It's nothing like Cesc or Rooney when they broke through and it was obvious that this was a young superstar, which is how MOTD seemed to characterise AMN.

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