Rico Lewis has dismissed the significance of nailing down an everyday place within the Manchester Metropolis aspect and believes his versatility has helped him play extra typically this season.
Lewis has made 11 appearances for Metropolis this time period, at right-back, left-back and in midfield and in addition established himself within the England squad.
And the 19-year-old believes his skill to play a couple of position has helped him.
Talking forward of tomorrow night time’s Champions League sport at residence to Sparta Prague, he stated: “I’ve probably not given an excessive amount of thought to nailing down a place. I feel the extra positions I can play the larger likelihood it offers me of enjoying.
“If I had one place, I wouldn’t have performed as a lot this season. There’s each methods to consider it. However I’m interested by enjoying in addition to I can and dealing as onerous as I can.
“At first, I used to be a midfielder however after about two weeks they put me at right-back as a result of I wasn’t pretty much as good as everybody else.
“Since then I’ve performed in every single place, left-back, right-back and a season at centre-back after I was youthful. That’s positively helped me by way of now and understanding different folks’s positions.
“I’m having fun with my soccer proper now and the extra positions I can play, the extra video games I can play and that’s what I need.”
RICO 💬 At first I used to be a midfielder. Two weeks in I used to be modified to proper again. Since then I’ve performed left again, proper again and centre again. That’s helped me by way of now and understanding different folks’s positions. I’m having fun with soccer proper now and the extra positions I can play… pic.twitter.com/wNOtR3gMYj
— Manchester Metropolis (@ManCity) October 22, 2024
Glad to play wherever
Lewis claims he doesn’t have a most well-liked place, including: “I feel it’s every little thing. No two video games are the identical. I just like the defensive aspect and I just like the attacking. Particularly with how we’re enjoying in the mean time, it’s the little particulars that may win you a sport.
“All of us have one purpose and that’s to win. I benefit from the little particulars and the issues that we and I can do to assist win video games.”
Lewis’ minutes have progressively elevated this time period in a method harking back to how Pep Guardiola slowly launched Phil Foden.
Requested if he feels extra trusted by Guardiola, he stated: “Undoubtedly, as a result of I’m enjoying on the pitch, however that’s to not say he didn’t belief me after I wasn’t enjoying.
“We’ve got so many good gamers that may play in so many positions that it’s troublesome to suit everybody in without delay. For my confidence, it’s huge, to have a supervisor who feels he can play you in most video games is superb for me.”
