Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
people with that kind of skillset in central midfield are termed as being "press resistant" these days, and their close control and ability to beat a man is used to beat the press and set up an attack against reduced numbers. moussa dembele was very good at doing that for spurs.
I think even those players, once they've beaten their man would probably be looking to pass the ball forward rather than drive it up field in the majority of cases, as you keep the team shape better.

Jordon Mutch was good at carrying the ball forward for us from cm positions
Mutch is the last one I can remember who was able to do it - I always thought Dembele was an excellent player, not sure why he kind of faded out of the picture at Spurs.