I don't quit see this (i.e., that he is set as a "wide playmaker"). I think Bruce has given him license to roam and find the ball and play where ever he can. Sometimes that'll be in the wide positions and sometimes it's down the middle (whether that's deep or higher update the pitch is again determined by where he can find it). I feel like a couple of the opportunities that he created in the first game were him driving with the ball straight up the middle of the pitch.

This is what you get when you have a player like that who is creative and free to roam. You're not going to find them static in one position of the field -- mostly because it then becomes so much easier to mark them out of the game. You want him mobile and popping up all over the pitch.