Martin Demichelis

[Mancitychicago]

He's a good squad player and can come good as a starter for many games. Will create a healthy competition between Nastasic and Lescott.

 

[kunaguero10]

I would go with Kompany and Demichelis for the next few games, but then I thought was about Lescott? We could go back to Kompany and Lescott, but for some reason Pellegrini seems to have blown him out already

 

[Vincents Tackle]

We should ignore Pearce's nonsense about '' Demichelis struggling like this'' and Lawrenson's cheap sarcasm about'' directing the traffic like a Buenos Aires policeman''.If we look at actual match incidents and not the impressions of clapped-out pundits, then. yes, there was one time when Torres in full flow swerved round his tackle. But , on three other occasions, he robbed Torres, once on the touchline and twice just outside the box . He also got the better of Oscar twice,one of which was a feint which the Brazilian bought. Another time he cleverly intercepted to thwart Hazard when he was motoring in on goal.Though he took stick from the pundits over the first goal, he hadn't'' forgotten about Schurlle ''' as they claimed. He reckoned he could cut out Torres' ball across the six yard box and he nearly did. True, the corner he conceded right at the start didn't look good but he probably expected Hart to take decisive action and then found he had to lash it out.
at all times,Martin Demichelis looked what he is- an experienced, streetwise central defender-seven years with Bayern Munich- whose headed clearances are powerful and accurate, whose tackles are hard and well-timed and who passes calmly and carefully out of defence.
Amid the 90th minute horror show ,the image that's better to remember is of Demich's effort when he ran across and flung himself into a valiant attempt to block torres' shot. his debut sure was a baptism of fire , marking Torres who suddenly looked like the world-class striker he was when liverpool first signed him.Demichelis was a shining light in the gloom and should make a good centre-back partner for VK -ASAP.

great post.

Agree with this

 

[Davs 19]

I would go with Kompany and Demichelis for the next few games, but then I thought was about Lescott? We could go back to Kompany and Lescott, but for some reason Pellegrini seems to have blown him out already

It'll be interesting to see whether he has the same aversion to two right footed CB.s as he allegedly has to two lefties.

 

[ManCityRising]

I thought he did quite well and grew into game as it went along. He also reminds me of Kompany with his touch and distribution on the ball.

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

Reads the game very well.

 

[Tbilisi]

We should ignore Pearce's nonsense about '' Demichelis struggling like this'' and Lawrenson's cheap sarcasm about'' directing the traffic like a Buenos Aires policeman''.If we look at actual match incidents and not the impressions of clapped-out pundits, then. yes, there was one time when Torres in full flow swerved round his tackle. But , on three other occasions, he robbed Torres, once on the touchline and twice just outside the box . He also got the better of Oscar twice,one of which was a feint which the Brazilian bought. Another time he cleverly intercepted to thwart Hazard when he was motoring in on goal.Though he took stick from the pundits over the first goal, he hadn't'' forgotten about Schurlle ''' as they claimed. He reckoned he could cut out Torres' ball across the six yard box and he nearly did. True, the corner he conceded right at the start didn't look good but he probably expected Hart to take decisive action and then found he had to lash it out.
at all times,Martin Demichelis looked what he is- an experienced, streetwise central defender-seven years with Bayern Munich- whose headed clearances are powerful and accurate, whose tackles are hard and well-timed and who passes calmly and carefully out of defence.
Amid the 90th minute horror show ,the image that's better to remember is of Demich's effort when he ran across and flung himself into a valiant attempt to block torres' shot. his debut sure was a baptism of fire , marking Torres who suddenly looked like the world-class striker he was when liverpool first signed him.Demichelis was a shining light in the gloom and should make a good centre-back partner for VK -ASAP.

great post.

Agree with this

He made me confident about our back 4 which all things considered is no mean achievement!

 

[aguero93:20]

I would go with Kompany and Demichelis for the next few games, but then I thought was about Lescott? We could go back to Kompany and Lescott, but for some reason Pellegrini seems to have blown him out already

It'll be interesting to see whether he has the same aversion to two right footed CB.s as he allegedly has to two lefties.

I think that might just be an aversion to two slow defenders who are very similar in their styles of play and have the same weaknesses. Bobby definitely had a thing for pairing righties and lefties, but demichelis and Vinnie could have a bit of the ying-yang thing going on imo.

For me I want to see him playing with Nasty to give Kompany more recovery time , he's got a world of experience and the young lad could learn a lot from him

 

[Chi-town blues]

We should ignore Pearce's nonsense about '' Demichelis struggling like this'' and Lawrenson's cheap sarcasm about'' directing the traffic like a Buenos Aires policeman''.If we look at actual match incidents and not the impressions of clapped-out pundits, then. yes, there was one time when Torres in full flow swerved round his tackle. But , on three other occasions, he robbed Torres, once on the touchline and twice just outside the box . He also got the better of Oscar twice,one of which was a feint which the Brazilian bought. Another time he cleverly intercepted to thwart Hazard when he was motoring in on goal.Though he took stick from the pundits over the first goal, he hadn't'' forgotten about Schurlle ''' as they claimed. He reckoned he could cut out Torres' ball across the six yard box and he nearly did. True, the corner he conceded right at the start didn't look good but he probably expected Hart to take decisive action and then found he had to lash it out.
at all times,Martin Demichelis looked what he is- an experienced, streetwise central defender-seven years with Bayern Munich- whose headed clearances are powerful and accurate, whose tackles are hard and well-timed and who passes calmly and carefully out of defence.
Amid the 90th minute horror show ,the image that's better to remember is of Demich's effort when he ran across and flung himself into a valiant attempt to block torres' shot. his debut sure was a baptism of fire , marking Torres who suddenly looked like the world-class striker he was when liverpool first signed him.Demichelis was a shining light in the gloom and should make a good centre-back partner for VK -ASAP.

Excellent post......top top

 

[Anonymous]

When i look back at the Chelsea game , i'm struggling to really fault Demichelis on anything that he did ....... maybe he could have done a bit more to prevent the first Chelsea goal , but certainly so could one or two others , someone should have been backing Clichy up as Torres cut in

Demichelis does appear to amble around a bit , but i felt that his distribution wasn't bad , even though the majority of it was over a short distance ...... he did play a lot of 'safe balls' , but to me he always looked composed enough against some top class players.

Wasn't a bad debut for him in my eyes.

 

[BlueMo']

I'd play him tonight alongside Jolly Lescott.

 

[aguero93:20]

I'd play him tonight alongside Jolly Lescott.

I'd rather protect that knee and see him next week v CSKA, doesn't look like Vinnie will make it

 

[Bluwhit]

I'm biased as my mate looks after him. I thought he did well against Chelsea. Composed on the ball with good distribution. Baptism of fire debuting against a pacy counter attacking team away from home.
Speaks volumes of his importance to Pellegrini that he hasn't even travelled for tonights game.
Dare I say he might even teach VK a thing or two about defending further up the pitch.
Not a long term signing but a quality short term fix. Welcome amigo

 

[decmancity]

Looks after him?

and interesting to know he hasn't even traveled.

 

[Dribble]

Demichelis was great considering it was his debut in the Premiership and in such a high profile match. I've no worries about him providing competition and cover for Kompany. He's a good footballer and more importantly he's an intelligent footballer which is what we need at the back right now.

I still don't know why we let Kolo go and didn't get in one accomplished CD and a promising CD or even kept Rekik at the club, but mine is not to reason why. Demichelis reminds me of Coloccini in the way he's so cool and collected on the ball, so he'll do for me as a stop-gap for the next 2-3 seasons until we get a couple of younger players up to speed.

 

[Anonymous]

think we've got a top buy here, he looked very good versus chelsea imo,
drop hart, play kolarov instead of clichy and we'll be sorted until komps is back.

 

[cibaman]

He looked shattered at the end of the Chelsea game. Probably not yet ready to play Sun-Wed-Sat-Tues.

 

[Bluwhit]

Someone been pulling my plonker it seems lol. Bench but definitely in Newcastle

 

[deano ou812]

Someone been pulling my plonker it seems lol. Bench but definitely in Newcastle

What is he on newcastle's bench.. ;-)

 

[Mancity1980]

I think he is our answer to covering Vinny's frequent absences, hope we get to see some more of him tonight.