#27 | João Cancelo - 2019/20 Performances

[Beanhead]

He’s starting to look proper.

Remember.. some players take time to adjust to the league... Bernie took a season to shine even Merlin took half a season.

this lad hasn’t played loads but in recent performances I’m starting to see evidence of the qualities of which people associated him with and why we paid the big bucks. Looks a menace going forward and at least as good as our other fullbacks defensively.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

It's pretty wild that we haven't given this guy a serious run of games at any point this season. He's only started 3 games in a row one time.

Been a lot of behind the scenes stuff going on with this fella but it seems from Peps statement that it’s getting better

 

[Brewster's millions]

Is there any potential using him further forward?

He could definitely do a job on the right wing, particularly away from home.

Played well today and I hope he stays.

 

[cjn]

Been a lot of behind the scenes stuff going on with this fella but it seems from Peps statement that it’s getting better

Fair. It wasn't necessarily a criticism because I assume Pep knows what he's doing, more just surprising given how talented he is.

 

[ninjamonkey]

It's pretty wild that we haven't given this guy a serious run of games at any point this season. He's only started 3 games in a row one time.

Aside from his issues bedding in and getting the system that Pep has mentioned, it’s not really. We play with a high defensive line and the only protection we have against the ball in behind is walkers pace, that alone, regardless of how well cancelo plays or how poorly walker may play makes him indispensable until we either drop our line deeper or find somebody equally quick (preferably at CB) to lessen the reliance on Walker.

 

[bballchinaski]

Is there any potential using him further forward?

yes, he played as a right wing often in his early years and even at valencia and juve

 

[nickamon]

Of course just as I say he wasn't the answer, he puts in a performance like that. I don't know when I'll learn to not judge new players their first year!

 

[Larry Stranger]

Is there any potential using him further forward?

He's an attacking fullback. The intention of brining him in was to help attack on the right rather than a simple overlap like what Walker does. The idea is using the 3 right sided players in the RW, RB and right sided #8 to switch into each others position when moving the ball around. So when he played as RB in previous games sometimes you'd see him taking up the right wing while Bernardo who was the RW be inside where the #8 should be and Kev staying back to protect against a counter attack. The 3 need to dove tail into each other positions.
Seeing that it was his first season he needed to adapt. Also since our defence as a whole was so poor Walker needed to play more.

 

[MCFCFanTX]

I hope we keep him. He's class.

 

[bballchinaski]

I hope we keep him. He's class.

very good technique and pace, its his lack of understanding the game/decision making that are holding him back from being an world beater at his position. maybe pep can help him, maybe not, we'll see