Alli's playing too deep to be effective, in my opinion.One or two flicks from Dele can and has changed games for us. I remember Sherringham getting the same kind of criticism.
You don't have to run around like a headless chicken or even like Lucas to make a difference. Dele's value to us is the unexpected and the switch of direction, if we ditch that we lose a large part of our effectiveness reducing chances for our strikers as well. Greaves was also accused of doing nothing but scoring goals............. AND?
It takes away his goal threat and his trickery beats one man and then two more are on him.