“The situation in which we are now … put us for the first time in a position where we must think very differently about the appearance of the team,” he said. “I think we really enjoyed this as coach staff. I am sure that the players were refreshed by different messages and the players having to do something different. So, while we are entering the playoffs now, it’s a beautiful rope to have our bow. ”
Mamadou Dieng, signed in the summer transfer window of Hartford Athletic at the USL championship, corresponds to the profile of a prototypical loon striker. Like Kelvin Yeboah and Tani Oluwaseyi, now reappeared, he is about 6-2 and physically imposing, which makes him the perfect target for the game of counter-attack typical of Minnesota.
So, with injured Yeboah, it could have been natural to assume that it would be put under the spotlight. Instead, the humans play without an attacker, and according to Ramsay, it is because Dieng still has a lot of lessons centered on Oluwaseyi to learn.
“I think there is a real maturity required from a defensive perspective, and I think we took such a good position with Tani in terms of subtleties of the way he defended,” Ramsay said on Friday. “Tani had just, number one, the desire to defend properly, the raw sports skills which meant that he could very well put our pressure. … He really picked up the clues, and our entire way of defending was in a way built some of these subtleties with which he was very good.”
Oluwaseyi started on Saturday for Villareal against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu, one of the largest cathedrals in world football, so if Dieng needs a model to follow, the former Huard cannot be bad.
“I had this conversation with him (Dieng) this week on the need to improve his liaison game in the same way as Tani,” said Ramsay. “I think that goes through part of the evolution that Tani has crossed, because they have very similar profiles.”
