#5 | John Stones - 2020/21 Performances

[Stelea]

All over the place 1st half

 

[LongsightM13]

Woeful. Flakey, weak John Stones of 18 months ago was back tonight. Head went after his first unforced fuck up and never recovered. Could have handed them three goals in the first 15 minutes.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Awful. One of our worst players tonight.

 

[Gabriel]

Improved in the second half but was a bag of nerves in the first, who looked as if the occasion might have gotten to him.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Very rarely I've seen a worse performance without a huge blunder. Every single decision by him was not the correct one, and his constant mistakes in passes, positioning and pressure made our defense weaker for the entire match.

Good season nevertheless.

along with every other player in our side

 

[Long Slow Goodbye]

Woeful. Flakey, weak John Stones of 18 months ago was back tonight. Head went after his first unforced fuck up and never recovered. Could have handed them three goals in the first 15 minutes.

No coincidence that his only sustained run of decent form for us has come in empty stadiums - he’s too fragile to play at the top level in a normal environment.

 

[AlexGrimaldo]

Shaky..

 

[Mike N]

He was always going to play like that tonight. No surprise.

 

[Cityzen_89]

Dias is our defence atm. He is the glue, we have a VVD injury to Dias the Stones of old will return. Dias can survive without Stones, I cannot say the same for Stones.

 

[argyle]

Has a brilliant season and then of course plays like that tonight.

 

[cityboy1]

Dias is our defence atm. He is the glue, we have a VVD injury to Dias the Stones of old will return. Dias can survive without Stones, I cannot say the same for Stones.

we've seen stones play well with laporte aswell?

 

[eastmanc]

He was always going to play like that tonight. No surprise.

They both looked shaky tonight no surprise as Pep thought it best not to pick Fern and give them no protection what so ever.

 

[Cityzen_89]

we've seen stones play well with laporte aswell?

Who is another quality CB. Stones is never the reliable CB. He is the other CB who you put with the reliable CB.

 

[Cobra]

He’s had a very good season, but I’d still love to see Dias and Laporte get an extended run together.

 

[Legal Alien]

He’s had a very good season, but I’d still love to see Dias and Laporte get an extended run together.

Me too, we have to convince Laporte to stay and i think the team will be better balanced with right and left footed CH's.

Stones has played really well at times this season, but has been a bit shaky and has not looked as confident since he made a mistake in that England game.
He was all over the place early on tonight and could have cost us a few times.

 

[super_city_si]

Pep had him following werner ans so he ended up on our left a lot. Should have trusted the defence to work as a unit as it has and not have them man marking

 

[butlerkb]

They both looked shaky tonight no surprise as Pep thought it best not to pick Fern and give them no protection what so ever.

I agree I think the teams confidence was shaken with no ferna to protect back four and break up stuff in midfield

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Hesitant, unsure, lacked courage with the ball, held on to it far too long, slowed far too much down.

Wasn’t exactly helped by Gundogan Foden Bernardo and de Bruyne jogging around the middle of the field when Chelsea’s players were sprinting around like their lives depended on it to close down passing lanes.

But still had his worst game of the season.

 

[AlexGrimaldo]

Hesitant, unsure, lacked courage with the ball, held on to it far too long, slowed far too much down.

Wasn’t exactly helped by Gundogan Foden Bernardo and de Bruyne jogging around the middle of the field when Chelsea’s players were sprinting around like their lives depended on it to close down passing lanes.

But still had his worst game of the season.

thats true...slowed down to much..not only him to be true! And its way more difficult to break a tight defensive and well organized team with all that slow passing, big time holding the ball ,etc,

 

[red 2 hats]

Saved his worse game of the season for the final, he looked nervous and scared.