24 | Joško Gvardiol - 2024/25

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borassic said:
Mad how some players get a free ride on here. He was fucking abysmal today, a great footballer but had a total nightmare.
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Not a fullback. I thought it was just going to be a temporary thing while he got used to the Premier league. Reminds me a lot of when we signed Distin. A really good footballer without a position.
 
Had a bad game, sadly again, but is still probably our best player this season. As others pointed out, he has no cover on that side, so if he does make a mistake, it's really dangerous, he is overplayed, and currently dragged down by others.

Midfield ahead of him was Championship level, so hard to blame him. He is still our best player this season and the least of our problems.
 
Haaland94 said:
Had a bad game, sadly again, but is still probably our best player this season. As others pointed out, he has no cover on that side, so if he does make a mistake, it's really dangerous, he is overplayed, and currently dragged down by others.

Midfield ahead of him was Championship level, so hard to blame him. He is still our best player this season and the least of our problems.
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The first two Spurs goals were down to his poor defending . The first goal he should of put the ball into touch, because he got there first and the second goal he played a blind pass across our box to a Tottenham player.
 
Bad day at the office for Gvardiol who has been our best player this season.

For the first goal, mostly down to Gvardiol - but Gundo (one of my favorite all-time players) is perhaps even more to blame. Gundo points to Maddison, as a sign for those behind him to pick up, and then leaves him. Meanwhile Stones, the only player capable of picking up Maddison, and who is in Gundo's view, isn't even looking towards Gundo.

50-50 blame between Gundo and Gvardiol for the first.

For the second, 65% on Gvardiol - blind pass into mid. Gvardiol glimpsed Gundo moving forward (but Gundo stopped) and then played a blind pass to where he thought Gundo would be.

From there, excellent play from Spurs lead to the second goal.

I do fault Lewis though - once the pass is intercepted he can see that no one is covering the attacker now in possession of the ball. And he's got plenty of City players in defense behind/aside him. Lewis should clearly attack the ball in this situation. Instead he back pedals as if he has no help and ends up in no-man's-land.
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Bottom line - Gvardiol made mistakes, but we should have been able to recover.

Gundo passing off Maddison while pointing to him might as well have been signalling, "Hey, pass to Maddison - he's going to be wide open b/c Stones has no chance at all of covering."

For the second, stupid move to ever make a blind pass into mid on defense in the final third. Yet Lewis could have at least applied pressure to the attacker once possession was lost.
 
Seems to get of a free pass as he pops up with a goal or two but recently he’s been really poor defensively.
 
If he hadn’t farted about trying to get possession of the ball instead of booting it into touch, then Spurs would not have scored that first goal.

That is the current problem with the team, they do not do the basics correctly.
 
borassic said:
Mad how some players get a free ride on here. He was fucking abysmal today, a great footballer but had a total nightmare.
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Players get free rides when, over nearly a season and a half, you can count on three fingers how many bad games they’ve had.

He’s just a bit out of form at the moment. But Gvardiol is probably the least of our worries at the moment. This lad is going to be one of the best around when he gets into his prime, a few bad games in a run of games where the whole team have been poor isn’t something to dig him out over because it’s so seldom seen from him.

If he was shit and bringing nothing to the team in every single game like a number of others in our squad, then that’d be the time to dig this lad out. But he’s a class player who’s a bit out of form but is only going to get better.
 
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Gingers Dad said:
Not a fullback. I thought it was just going to be a temporary thing while he got used to the Premier league. Reminds me a lot of when we signed Distin. A really good footballer without a position.
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He clearly does have a position, he’s an attacking left wingback and he’s ideal in that position for a team like us. And he’s been one of the very best left wingbacks in the world over the last year. He barely plays full back, yesterday BSilva was in the full back position more than Gvardiol in the first half.
 
M23 Citizen said:
Players get free rides when, over nearly a season and a half, you can count on three fingers how many bad games they’ve had.
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Actually I think his defensive side is never very good up to the Dias or Akanji first season level. We was not under pressure that much but when it was he was bad at defending. Still remember that shitshow at Villa Park last season.

He has good attacking attributions though.
 
Lost the fucking plot this lad. He has gone from the best LB in the world to fucking calamity in the space of a month. In his 1st season, even when he had a good game, he would always make some fucking stupid mistake. He had eradicated this. Now it’s worse than it was at the beginning. It’s like he’s been sniffing glue.
 
OrigamiNinja said:
Lost the fucking plot this lad. He has gone from the best LB in the world to fucking calamity in the space of a month. In his 1st season, even when he had a good game, he would always make some fucking stupid mistake. He had eradicated this. Now it’s worse than it was at the beginning. It’s like he’s been sniffing glue.
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He’s never ever ever been the best LB in the world hahaha.

Absolute lummox
 
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