6 | Nathan Ake - 2023/24

[M16 citeh]

Phenomenal player. The journey he's been on makes him even more special in my eyes. Ok and the dreadlocks

 

[Akira]

This. I genuinely adore Ake. Absolutely made up he’s the one who broke the curse last night. Never gets the plaudits he deserves.

He is pretty underrated imo. Would walk into the defense of any top 6 sides.

 

[urban genie]

All that we want
Is Nathan Ake, Nathan Ake
All that we want
Is Nathan Ake, hey hey hey.

Sorry been out drinking last 5 hrs and this popped up on my youtube, followed by such a daft lyrical idea ;-)

 

[Middedon]

Underrated by pundits, maybe. Fans voted him in the best 3 of our players last season, ahead of Rodri, Gundogan and Stones no less.

The US broadcasters mention him quite a bit - exactly the comments I see here. Level head, smart, not flashy but consistently gets the job done.

 

[normskih]

What a bloke. Also fair play to Hojberg in this clip, backs out of booting it as hard as he can it seems.

Haha, it’s as if Hojbjerg is saying “what the hell” or words to that effect:)

 

[Gabriel]

Really seems to be enjoying his football at the moment. Comfortable on the ball, settled with Gvardiol and Rodri, and always looking for that space ahead of him to exploit.

 

[Haaland94]

Very good 95% of the time, but it was a school-error from him today. Feels like a concentration lapse or something. Again, good otherwise, but makes that occasional mistake like against Crystal Palace, Spurs, Wolves, and now Brentford.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Very good 95% of the time, but it was a school-error from him today. Feels like a concentration lapse or something. Again, good otherwise, but makes that occasional mistake like against Crystal Palace, Spurs, Wolves, and now Brentford.

Strongly disagree it was a concentration thing. He simply got done for strength. whilst theres clearly some culpability on his part, I don't even really see that as an error as such.

I'd want my centre half to be stronger there but I'm giving credit where it's due to the Striker, it was a great piece of play and he knew exactly what he was doing.

He was superb overall once again. Undropable for me in the big games, just need to keep him fit.

 

[Stelea]

Whilst Ake was muscled out on the goal, it was more disappointing that we seemed that we hadn’t prepared for that both tactically pre match and preventing it when it happened

 

[Crooked_rain]

Very good player

I think he needed to be stronger with Toney, or at least anticipate what was going to happen better.

That said, it's really nitpicking in relation to how solid he is in general.