25 | Manuel Akanji - 2022/23 Performances

[ninjamonkey]

Criticised him a bit lately but he played relatively well today, dithers on the ball too much for my liking but he's far from the only one. Left exposed by walkers decision as the pacy sweeper to go forward into irrecoverable positions at every opportunity for no reason.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Indeed. I knew Akanji wasn’t good enough when I watched how easily Brentford and then Everton scored against us. Saying that not playing Laporte today and actually choosing to play Cancelo after his shitshow in midweek was just very strange. When are Dias and Stones back because I can see more of the same in the next few weeks if it’s not soon.

I always worry about players when it becomes apparent you can target them in a certain way. Akanji is fine in the channels but teams have now realised he is turd in the air, is consistently out of position and slow on the turn.

 

[kismet]

I always worry about players when it becomes apparent you can target them in a certain way. Akanji is fine in the channels but teams have now realised he is turd in the air, is consistently out of position and slow on the turn.

Spot on and for me Dias and Laporte are the two. Stones is too injury prone but a superb player.

Akanje is ok but a back up only, not for key games.

 

[madloaf]

Spoke very well after the game about the offside. Made sense that he switched off to a degree with rashford so close to ball. The can of worms this opens is large and disgusting, much like the opposition today.

 

[Leroy Leroy Leroy]

Cost us the game with the second goal, absolutely terrible

 

[cleavers]

Cost us the game with the second goal, absolutely terrible

No, that was atwell with the first.

 

[samuelyeboah]

thought he was good today. after the absolutely disgusting refereeing decision everyone lost their mind and they should account for it, but I can't blame them.

 

[Goldust]

Not good enough for me.

 

[Woz_37]

Not good enough. There was a reason he was 15 million and couldn’t get in the Dortmund team. Looks classy bringing the ball out but can’t defend. Criminal positioning for the second goal, Dias would have cut that cross out.

 

[Stelea]

He is garbage in comparison to all our other CB.
Started off well but seems to get worse each week.
The big concern is that Pep seems to have him as 1st name on the team sheet.
Probably explains why we rarely keep a clean sheet nowadays in the league let along back to back.
There is a reason he was 15M