25 | Gianluigi Donnarumma - 2025/26

Paul1970 said:
Most important signing since we got the big Viking . These players win you trophy’s .
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I would add Gvardiol to the list. Yet another beautiful assist. Reads the game so well, rock solid at the back.

Otherwise, fully agree. The 1 on 1 was superb. Gigio is easily the best in the business.

That bit of play that prevented the corner at the end, showed big brains there.
 
Haaland94 said:
I would add Gvardiol to the list. Yet another beautiful assist. Reads the game so well, rock solid at the back.

Otherwise, fully agree. The 1 on 1 was superb. Gigio is easily the best in the business.

That bit of play that prevented the corner at the end, showed big brains there.
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Although it was his poor header that set the chance up. He seeks to have moments like this in a lot of games and if he could cut them out he would be right up there.

Great save that.
 
He is so lucky that charged down clearance and deflection didnt go in, no idea what he was thinking there. Just before the end he comes to the edge of his box for a deep cross which is great but you have to take the ball when coming that far and not slap it out for a throw in when that's been their best weapon all game. At the very end, he shown a really clever bit of keeping to not give away a corner. Think he only made a single actual save all game, that 1v1, did everything right in that, recognised it was horrible centre forward play and the donkey still somehow didnt have control of the ball and pounced when he had to.

This isn't strictly on him, it's a system wide thing but we've got to sort out a plan for his awful distribution. If we are going to be just smashing it up, fine but at least make sure it is within 30 yards of Haaland to give him the chance of challenging and then we've got to have players off him picking up the ball. we're still dealing with the keeper hoofing it like it's his first day and nobody has a clue, we've had plenty of time to come up with something by now, that has got to improve drastically because giving it straight back so often is going to cost us against good sides.
 
ninjamonkey said:
He is so lucky that charged down clearance and deflection didnt go in, no idea what he was thinking there. Just before the end he comes to the edge of his box for a deep cross which is great but you have to take the ball when coming that far and not slap it out for a throw in when that's been their best weapon all game. At the very end, he shown a really clever bit of keeping to not give away a corner. Think he only made a single actual save all game, that 1v1, did everything right in that, recognised it was horrible centre forward play and the donkey still somehow didnt have control of the ball and pounced when he had to.

This isn't strictly on him, it's a system wide thing but we've got to sort out a plan for his awful distribution. If we are going to be just smashing it up, fine but at least make sure it is within 30 yards of Haaland to give him the chance of challenging and then we've got to have players off him picking up the ball. we're still dealing with the keeper hoofing it like it's his first day and nobody has a clue, we've had plenty of time to come up with something by now, that has got to improve drastically because giving it straight back so often is going to cost us against good sides.
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Their long throw ins created nothing all game so didn't really mind that, don't think his distribution is awful, it's not great but it's not awful either, just average.
 
It is just so very nice to have a keeper that stops what he can reasonably be expected to stop. Ed's shot stopping — which was never poor, by the way — did definitely go down a notch last season; and incidentally, people didn't seem to notice this, but his distribution wasn't quite its normal level, with a number of balls pinged out to the wingers going straight out, rather than dropping on a sixpence at their feet.
But, on that point. Donnarumma put a poorish ball out to the wing, to Nico O'R. Now the instinct of a player who receives a pass from a team mate is to keep it in play at all costs. It's a kind of courtesy. Nico leapt and stretched, got a head to it, and put it back into play. And because he could get no direction on it, it went straight to a Brentford player, who duly launched an attack. If I were Pep, I'd have a quiet word in Nico O'R's ear, to just let it go out of play when it's that wayward. And anyone else playing out there on that wing.
It's no good going on about Donna's distribution. It is simply never going to be Ed's, and the comparison is invidious — because Ed was a freak, the likes of which we'll never see again.
 
Haaland94 said:
I would add Gvardiol to the list. Yet another beautiful assist. Reads the game so well, rock solid at the back.

Otherwise, fully agree. The 1 on 1 was superb. Gigio is easily the best in the business.

That bit of play that prevented the corner at the end, showed big brains there.
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Hopefully next season the three young defenders kick on and we get a right back and we are set . My big worry now is a top class midfield destroyer we need to get in .
 
Kippax Kidd said:
Luckily he doesn't have to be the next Jonny Wilkinson.
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no, but he did put us under pressure by kicking the ball out on a number of occasions and then almost gave them a goal at the end...he got lucky as that could have gone anywhere
 
The 1 on 1 was absolutely huge, I know Thiago got it stuck under his feet but his positioning to save the shot the moment he got it out of his feet was immense.

We're just miles better at the back since he signed.

I think last season we'd have feared that 1 on 1 but I think most thought he'd bail us out today which he did.
 
I loved Eddie and didn’t want to see him leave. He was perfect for the dominant team we had. However, that was then and now, quite simply, we just aren’t as good anymore. As nice as it would be if Donna was as good as Eddie with his feet, it’s more important that he is more difficult to beat. This current side needs Donna and I think we are extremely lucky to have gotten him and at an absolute steal of a price.
 
He's give the defence a set of balls and a backbone.

Every keeper will make mistakes, every keeper isn't Eddie, every keeper has their strengths and weaknesses but this guy will save us points big time.

Yes he will get caught a couple of times, what goalie doesn't but I'm absolutely buzzing having him between the sticks.
 
A world-class goalkeeper will earn you at least 10 more points than a good goalkeeper in a season.

When a striker finds himself one-on-one with him, he asks himself so many questions before making a decision. The goal seems smaller and smaller that he's already losing the psychological battle.

That's what happened today in the failed one-on-one. God only knows what the rest of the match would have been like if they had equalized, especially considering our reaction after the equalizers.
 
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