Aymeric Laporte 2018 performances

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His passing is superb, but his performance was poor last night and was at fault for certainly the second goal. Needs to step up, but I am confident he will improve no doubt
 
certainly looks reluctant to tackle near the box while stones looks reluctant to tackle anywhere bad combination at the moment
 
Still settling in, and I imagine Guardiola would prefer to play a combination of youth/experience in his pairs to bring them all on, but the circumstances don't currently allow for that. Looking forward to seeing Laporte and Mendy together next season.
 
I thought he was pretty good, especially in the first half but then got worse as the game went on
 
I’m not making decisions on him yet, far too soon. But so far my view would be that he looks fantastic on the ball but would like to see more aggression in the tackle from him. First and foremost defenders need to defend.
 
blue ranger said:
I’m not making decisions on him yet, far too soon. But so far my view would be that he looks fantastic on the ball but would like to see more aggression in the tackle from him. First and foremost defenders need to defend.
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Exactly this. I know Pep doesn't 'teach the tackles' but maybe Nico can help him out there. Stones really upped his aggression early on and it took his game up to a whole different level.
 
As above... Laporte appears to be very slow - which doesn't rule him out as a good defender; he'll need to take up good positions, make sound decisions and likely be paired with a much faster partner against quicker opponents.
 
Nobody seems to have mentioned Laporte on here today unless I have missed it, thought he played decent at left back looked solid and had a few nice passes in the final third
 
CityInWashingtonState said:
As above... Laporte appears to be very slow - which doesn't rule him out as a good defender; he'll need to take up good positions, make sound decisions and likely be paired with a much faster partner against quicker opponents.
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he's not slow.

Really liked the positions he took up going forward and his willingness to be bold with his passing which opened up the chance for the first goal. Yes left-back isn't natural and Salah will give him far more scrutiny, but I guess we now have 5 options at LB which considering we actually only have 1 LB is some achievement.
 
Another great addition slowly finding his feet in a new league with new teammates and new tactics.
 
Took Pep a year to teach Stones how to defend, Laporte will need that long too. Not to worry when we have Otamendi.
 
I’m not a tactics/positional expert but it seemed like a hybrid back 3/4 type thing going on. I thought he played the position well and agree with @Pablo1 and @Tevez City points.

We’re exptremely spoiled at the CB position now. What a time to be a blue lol
 
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I’m not a tactics/positional expert but it seemed like a hybrid back 3/4 type thing going on. I thought he played the position well and agree with @Pablo1 and @Tevez City points.

We’re exptremely spoiled at the CB position now. What a time to be a blue lol
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I describe the formation as 3-7-0. Ota, Vinnie and Eric were very much a back three.
 
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