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7 | Joao Cancelo - 2022/23 Performances
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jimmygrimblesboots
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Looking at the man of the match vote on here , you didnt :)Did we watch the same game?
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He’s defo not a full back. Fantastic player though.
I just wish he would keep it simple. He goes up the other end of the pitch, tries some trick he saw on FIFA, fails at it and loses the ball more often than it succeeds and then the other team attack us on the break while he doesn't have the pace to get back.
I must have watched another game then. Absolute shite defensively and very sloppy overallRolls Royce of a player , he makes the right decision nearly every time our most creative player against the Dippers , he is going to tear teams apart this season.
No he doesn't. Zinchenko played a fair amount of games last and the previous season when cancelo dropped off.The worst part is if Pep benches him, he's 100% the kind of player to woman and moan. Zinchenko>Cancelo all day.
Not fair you saying he's 100 percent bitchin' and moaning
jimmygrimblesboots
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Thought all our defence was shaky but Cancelo was our best player going forward , the Dippers had two wide players over nearly every time they attacked , agree to disagree , and certainly not shite.I must have watched another game then. Absolute shite defensively and very sloppy overall
Really?Azpi (and Walker too) are more reliable defenders in their own half of the pitch, but Cancelo is a pressing machine and defensively very important to a high-pressing team like ours. He was among the best in the league wrt pressing actions last season.
Cancelo's problem is that people apply non-Pep criteria for his defensive work, i.e. they measure his usefulness in defence by traditional criteria which don't apply to Pep teams. We have the best defence in Europe -- not because our defenders are the best in traditional ways, but due to the intense high-pressing.
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