#6 | Nathan Aké - 2021/22 Performances

[Bournemouth Blue]

He is a very good defender, we should keep him, a solid, intelligent left sided defender, maybe not as good as Laporte or Zinchenko in terms of distribution, but brilliant in defence and sometimes up for a corner and occasional headed goals, despite his height. I hope Pep continues to give him game time when appropriate

 

[awjl1962]

Would like to see him have a run in the team given Laporte's errors.

 

[decmancity]

Another solid performance, Saka is a very tricky player so he isn't going to shut him down for 90mins. Incredible effort to clear that one off the line.

 

[kun]

He won 7 aerial duels today. Arsenal's entire team won 5.

Guarantee you'll still find people on here saying he's "poor in the air" and/or "too short".

 

[Saddleworth2]

He has settled in and playing very well just now. Defensively sound, good in the air and doesn't give the ball away easily. His clearance set up our win.

 

[tommybooth]

Turned up yesterday. Always good to have good/very good and excellent centre backs in a pool of 4.

 

[Dadsupportedthem]

Would like to see him have a run in the team given Laporte's errors.

That was more Edersons fault than Laporte yesterday.

 

[Withnail]

Will never be first choice, but a steady player who deserves praise for that brilliant goalline clearance

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

This lad is growing on me, he was underwhelming on his first few appearances the suffered some niggling injuries but is now showing his true value to the squad , has been our best defender recently which is high praise when Dias is in the same team, Ake would walk into any other Premier league team , and yet he is probably fourth choice when everyone is fit at our club which reallly emphasies the chasm in quality between our squad and any other team in europe.

 

[oldius]

He has played very well in the last couple of weeks and deserves to be more of a fixture for as long as that form continues. Unfortunately for him, Cancelo on the left and Walker on the right is likely to always be the preference in the biggest games.