mansour's tow ropes said:Nastasic is a good defender who will only get better, but right now I think I'd go with Kompany and Demichelis. These two will bully attackers no end
I tend to forget such things when we are 4-0 up.Neville Kneville said:Joycee Banercheck said:When he has given the ball away he's got it back. Takes time after an injury to get rid of the rust.Lancet Fluke said:We don't know whether the match on Saturday was a bit of a one off for Demichelis in terms of giving the ball away like he did and as I have said earlier, I think he looks decent defensively which has been a pleasant surprise. So don't think I've got a downer on the guy, I haven't. But anyone who thinks his distribution was good on Saturday is nuts. I don't care if he plays lots of reasonable passes because for a centre half just one sloppy pass straight to opposition when under no pressure at all is too many and against a decent team could easily be disastrous. He did it 6 times on Saturday! A 99% success rate in a big game will mean fuck all if the 1% is him rolling the ball to the opposition striker who goes through and scores. As Joe found out against Chelsea, 1 bad error in a big game undermines all the other work you've done.
Apart from the one where he didn't get it back, was too slow to recover & Elmander blazed it over the bar from 6 yards.
Defensively he was great. In possession he was nowhere near good enough & that was against a poor team who pressed badly.
Needs to stop giving the ball away, & he needs to stop it right now, or his career will be over before it starts.
SalfordCityBlue said:Like the fact that he has the confidence to not always pick the easy pass. Yes, that means he will give it away on occasion, but he will also spring us forward much quicker with more difficult balls into midfield when they come off.
I got worried about his pace listening to Tim Vickery talk about him. He said he was outrageously slow, didn't see how he would ever be able to cope with the pace of the Prem and was astonished that we'd signed him.prestonibbo_mcfc said:Also liked the way, he stepped up to challenge rather than let the player turn and run at him.
Don't need any pace for that. Mind you I don't know where the daft rumours about that started.
Neville Kneville said:Joycee Banercheck said:When he has given the ball away he's got it back. Takes time after an injury to get rid of the rust.Lancet Fluke said:We don't know whether the match on Saturday was a bit of a one off for Demichelis in terms of giving the ball away like he did and as I have said earlier, I think he looks decent defensively which has been a pleasant surprise. So don't think I've got a downer on the guy, I haven't. But anyone who thinks his distribution was good on Saturday is nuts. I don't care if he plays lots of reasonable passes because for a centre half just one sloppy pass straight to opposition when under no pressure at all is too many and against a decent team could easily be disastrous. He did it 6 times on Saturday! A 99% success rate in a big game will mean fuck all if the 1% is him rolling the ball to the opposition striker who goes through and scores. As Joe found out against Chelsea, 1 bad error in a big game undermines all the other work you've done.
Apart from the one where he didn't get it back, was too slow to recover & Elmander blazed it over the bar from 6 yards.
Defensively he was great. In possession he was nowhere near good enough & that was against a poor team who pressed badly.
Needs to stop giving the ball away, & he needs to stop it right now, or his career will be over before it starts.
his precise description was he is a "wardrobe"., so there's a lesson learned about Tim Vickery whose deep insights are so often applauded by some on here!Lancet Fluke said:I got worried about his pace listening to Tim Vickery talk about him. He said he was outrageously slow, didn't see how he would ever be able to cope with the pace of the Prem and was astonished that we'd signed him.prestonibbo_mcfc said:Also liked the way, he stepped up to challenge rather than let the player turn and run at him.
Don't need any pace for that. Mind you I don't know where the daft rumours about that started.
George Hannah said:there's a lesson learned about Tim Vickery then!Lancet Fluke said:I got worried about his pace listening to Tim Vickery talk about him. He said he was outrageously slow, didn't see how he would ever be able to cope with the pace of the Prem and was astonished that we'd signed him.prestonibbo_mcfc said:Also liked the way, he stepped up to challenge rather than let the player turn and run at him.
Don't need any pace for that. Mind you I don't know where the daft rumours about that started.
precisely (sorry about editing my post while you were replying!)Lancet Fluke said:George Hannah said:there's a lesson learned about Tim Vickery then!Lancet Fluke said:I got worried about his pace listening to Tim Vickery talk about him. He said he was outrageously slow, didn't see how he would ever be able to cope with the pace of the Prem and was astonished that we'd signed him.
He always sounds very knowledgeable but then most of the players he talks about are unknown South American kids so he could just be making it up as he goes along.
George Hannah said:his precise description was he is a "wardrobe"