45 | Abdukodir Khusanov - 2024/25

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samuelyeboah said:
I don't like the overcorrection people have made on the reaction to Khusanov. He's made a huge mistake, don't hide it. Don't baby him. He's a grown adult that was just purchased for a huge sum and is receiving a lot of money to play for the best team in the land. Mistakes are unacceptable. He knows it. The solution isn't to tell pep "why did you play him" and to hide him somewhere until he magically improves. The solution is to play him again and tell him not to do that again. 20 year old or not, doesn't speak the language or not, I am not prepared to lower the expectations I have for him. If he's not good enough right now we shouldn't have paid this amount. I believe he is good enough and so he should know better.

Likewise, he really wasn't anything good after the mistake, I don't understand why people are trying to paint the rest of his performance like it was great. Again, stop lowering the expectations. Raise them instead. He is better than what he's shown.
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Actually agree with a lot of this.

Though he did improve - not to anything incredible, but it's was still a good recovery from him considering how he must have been feeling.

It was nobody's fault but his though. Whether Nunes threw the ball to them, Akanji was nearby, or Rico Lewis was being Rico Lewis somewhere off the pitch - it was only Khusanov's fault.

Thought he was a bit lucky in 2 respects. Firstly for the booking - it wasn't far off a red as Palmer was almost in on goal. It was probably the pace of Nunes that persuaded the ref there was cover. Now that would been a really horrendous debut!

Secondly, Chelsea didn't do anything to make it hard for him after the booking. They should have been trying to run at him every time they had the ball, but they didnt, and he grew into the game a bit.

Still got hopes for the guy and he deserves a lot of support next time he's out on the pitch for us, but you can be sure that the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal won't be as kind to him as Chelsea were if he plays against them. He'll have to be on it from the start.
 
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Bloody hell, he made one mistake, probably caused by not being able to communicate with Akanji, and people lose their shit. I will have you know most of our squad gave away goals, some multiple, this season through silly mistakes.

He played well afterwards. Watch his highlights. That was some fantastic mental strength to recover from that.
 
samuelyeboah said:
I don't like the overcorrection people have made on the reaction to Khusanov. He's made a huge mistake, don't hide it. Don't baby him. He's a grown adult that was just purchased for a huge sum and is receiving a lot of money to play for the best team in the land. Mistakes are unacceptable. He knows it. The solution isn't to tell pep "why did you play him" and to hide him somewhere until he magically improves. The solution is to play him again and tell him not to do that again. 20 year old or not, doesn't speak the language or not, I am not prepared to lower the expectations I have for him. If he's not good enough right now we shouldn't have paid this amount. I believe he is good enough and so he should know better.

Likewise, he really wasn't anything good after the mistake, I don't understand why people are trying to paint the rest of his performance like it was great. Again, stop lowering the expectations. Raise them instead. He is better than what he's shown.
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I don't think people are willing to accept lower standards just because of the reasons you put - I think they're just willing to cut him a little bit of slack (a little bit!) because of the reasons mentioned.

Obviously mistakes can't be accepted. That's fine. But it's also important to look at the context of the rest of it - after a mistake, and the fact he's 20, in a new country, doesn't speak the language and making his debut, he recovered brilliantly and looked composed.

Centre halves don't get the limelight usually so the best thing you can say about them is that you don't particularly notice them in a game (unless it's a goal etc. obviously) which, after his mistake, is exactly the case.

I don't think people are sensationalising his performance just because he didn't make another mistake, I think they're pleased with the mentality he showed to recover so quickly.

That's just my take, anyway.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
Akanji was equally at fault.

Regardless, after the first 5 mins of debut jitters he played really well. The future is bright for the lad.
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Equally at fault?.....riiiiiiiiiigghht.

Must have missed Akanji missing the first header, then slap the ball with his ear.
Jitters or not - basics for a player of that standard.

OK seems equal.
 
anyone blaming one player over the other isn't being entirely fair. I honestly think both Akanji and Khusanov were at fault for Chelsea's goal;

Khusanov missing the initial header out of the sky wasn't really an issue, that actually happens quite a bit on a high ball, as long as the centre half pushes into the striker enough, it's pretty much fine.

Watching the vid (over and over), you can see exactly the above happens, then Akanji steams over. Then it's - in my eyes - lack of communication between 2 players who have never played with each other before plus one of which doesnt yet speak English.

Header missed, but Chelsea forward knocked off balance, you see it happen from centre halves, quite normal . Akanji steaming over to (presumably) help out, he reacts well;

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Khusanov presumably sees Akanji running over and does a little pull up, stands up a bit straight and sort of stops for a split second;

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Akanji gets there but pulls up - who knows why, perhaps because Khusanov has since started running to the ball again. In the image below, Khusanov is still in a non-committal state, both have confused each other. This is the origin of the error - whether through lack of talking or mis-reading body language on both players accounts, neither are committed;

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Finally the header is a bad decision, but the groundwork is laid through complete lack of comms between centre halves. Credit to the Chelsea player for reading the mistake (he's already on his bike) but given the slowness of the bouncing ball, it looked very obvious. You might want to point to Eddie to get wider and nearer but with strikers lurking, he cant.
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rank communication between players not on the same wavelength yet. I can see the blame on both players, it should have just been cleared.
 
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