#2 | Kyle Walker - 2020/21 Performances

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His role was a defensive one today, we lost the creativity of cancelo but he helped ensure the clean sheet. Doesn't need to try and be cancelo when it doesn't play to his strengths, keep to his game and he more than shows his worth to the team. Hope he gets berated for those absolutely moronic fouls though.

Walker is definitely the worst culprit for giving stupid fouuls away.

 

[WallyA]

While he had suspect moments, he also wasn't fully told to play the same way as Cancelo either.

Clearly Cancelo had more freedom to come inside and even push towards the box, while Walker was told to make a back 3 with Dias and Laporte, and let Zinchenko inside.

It's just that Cancelo is better than Zinchenko at the inside role, and even though Walker is a better defender than Zinchenko, Zinchenko is then more comfortable on the ball, it's a dilemma for Pep on how to rotate this perfectly (probably not possible).

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Looked rusty , poor first touch and offered little going forward , he's been excellent this season so will give him a pass but he needs to do better or Cancelo will take his place.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Not a technically gifted as Cancelo which is a problem in the style we now play

Not when you see that Burke is lightning quick and makes loads of good runs down the channels. Every game has a different style and game plan depending on who we’re playing.

 

[OB1]

Looked rusty , poor first touch and offered little going forward , he's been excellent this season so will give him a pass but he needs to do better or Cancelo will take his place.

He was playing as part of the back three: he wasn't supposed to go forward a lot.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

He was playing as part of the back three: he wasn't supposed to go forward a lot.

When a team puts ten behind the ball even Ederson is on the half way line , if Cancelo had played at right back today he would have caused chaos , even Laporte spent more time in their half than ours.

 

[OB1]

When a team puts ten behind the ball even Ederson is on the half way line , if Cancelo had played at right back today he would have caused chaos , even Laporte spent more time in their half than ours.

Laporte's average position was just inside the City half and Walker's just inside the opponents' half. So they were virtually level with each other because when we were in possession they were the wider players in a back three with Dias central and a bit deeper in the City half.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Laporte's average position was just inside the City half and Walker's just inside the opponents' half. So they were virtually level with each other because when we were in possession they were the wider players in a back three with Dias central and a bit deeper in the City half.

Walker wasnt up to his usual very high standard and lets leave it at that , i dont take much interest in stats they can be manipulated to prove any point , didnt we have over 75% possession against Leicester and lose 2-5 ?

 

[Airbags Optional]

Let’s be honest he was terrible today. Passing negative and obvious, did not help Torres at all with the pace and type of passes he played. Positioning was pretty poor and then he had his usual brain farts.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

When a team puts ten behind the ball even Ederson is on the half way line , if Cancelo had played at right back today he would have caused chaos , even Laporte spent more time in their half than ours.

You need to understand though that when Cancelo plays right back, our left back forms a back 3 with the centre backs in possession and when Walker plays, our left back is the one to push up into midfield and Walker forms the back 3. So comparing Walker and Cancelo and saying Walker wasn’t “causing chaos” is not even a fair comparison as they are playing different roles for us. The comparison in Cancelo’s absence is with Zinchenko. He was performing today’s ‘Cancelo role’. And you can also compare Walker with Zinchenko when Zin plays in a team with Cancelo in it. Zinchenko is much better than Walker in the build up but much inferior to Cancelo in the advanced role. That’s the way I see it.