Martin Demichelis

[jay_mcfc]

He just can't play in a 4-4-2 with Yaya against Chelsea. It's not his fault, although all that diving in on Hazard didn't help in the first half.

 

[JamesA]

Can't understand the amount of vitriol he's getting. He did OK, considering he was playing out of position, and got little support from his team mates. Yaya was the one who let me down the most, but some fans are too easily misled by TV pundits, and will just pick on the easier target like Demichelis, or Garcia.

It's because he constantly overcommited himself and left us completely exposed. We all know that Yaya won't track back particularly, so his partners job is to cover for him and make sure they do. That's not even Fernandinho's natural game, but he understands what is required and does it brilliantly. Demichellis on the other hand just constantly charged at whoever had the ball and threw himself at them. Obviously that will result in a few succesful tackles, but the rest of the time it completely removes you from the game and gives the opposition a free run at our defence. That might be alright if you're last man, but constantly doing it on the halfway line is just suicidal

Yeh but maybe that's because his lack of pace means he was totally exposed and it was either make a challenge or get skinned for pace. Basically he shouldn't have been playing in that position, not got the legs for it.

 

[Hungarian blue]

He wasn't bad, just because we are missing Fernandinho that much, probably some of our posters have to blame someone. We just cannot replace Ferna but that is not really Demichelis' fault... He was fine but we aren't on the same level against top teams when we're missing Fernandinho.

 

[pudge]

Firing in "passes" to SIlva and Yaya like he was shooting, if I'm Rodwell or Jimmy I'm knocking on Pellers door first thing in the morning.

 

[Luck95]

He wasn't as bad as people are making out but he certainly isn't meant to be used in midfield

 

[FromPollockToSilva]

Firing in "passes" to SIlva and Yaya like he was shooting, if I'm Rodwell or Jimmy I'm knocking on Pellers door first thing in the morning.

Rodwell would probably break his wrist.

 

[Andouble]

Demichelis was fine, as was Yaya. Unfair to compare him to Fernandinho. Just foolish to think they'd be ok in that midfield against Chelsea's 5.

 

[pudge]

Firing in "passes" to SIlva and Yaya like he was shooting, if I'm Rodwell or Jimmy I'm knocking on Pellers door first thing in the morning.

Rodwell would probably break his wrist.

Would still put him ahead of Demichelis

 

[Plain Speaking]

I did expect Demichelis to come off for Milner late in the second half. He looked tired and was on a yellow card.
I can only assume Milner is not 100% fit with his groin problem and MP is trying to look at a bigger picture?

 

[swblue7]

I'm a big Pellers fan but he left me scratching my head tonight. Demechelis fuckin hopeless in holding mf and should have been replaced by Milner, he hooked the beast when Edin was an absolute no show and he failed to alter the shape when it was crying out for 5 across the middle for the best part of an hour.
I hope to fuck Fernandhinio is back for Barca cos if he plays that midfield it will be all over by the end of the first leg. Grrrrr

 

[City Raider]

Over 20 shots tonight with 3 on target - cut DM some slack

 

[remember arthur mann]

Played well tonight, all over the park, he had to be with the rest plodding about. Toure got stuck in tonight too.

 

[Unknown_Genius]

Can't understand the amount of vitriol he's getting. He did OK, considering he was playing out of position, and got little support from his team mates. Yaya was the one who let me down the most, but some fans are too easily misled by TV pundits, and will just pick on the easier target like Demichelis, or Garcia.

It's because he constantly overcommited himself and left us completely exposed. We all know that Yaya won't track back particularly, so his partners job is to cover for him and make sure they do. That's not even Fernandinho's natural game, but he understands what is required and does it brilliantly. Demichellis on the other hand just constantly charged at whoever had the ball and threw himself at them. Obviously that will result in a few succesful tackles, but the rest of the time it completely removes you from the game and gives the opposition a free run at our defence. That might be alright if you're last man, but constantly doing it on the halfway line is just suicidal

His lack of pace, means he will commit challenges like that, or he'll be overrun. He won a few 50/50s. In an ideal world, he wouldn't have been playing there in the first place, especially against a midfield of Chelsea's quality, but I've seen much worse performances from square pegs in round holes.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Played ok for 15 mins the completely overrun.

Poor tactics tonight. Pellegrini should have matched them in midfield. Milner should have started.

 

[oakiecokie]

For me he was the best midfielder we had today.Silva and Toure were well beyond par,but Demi tried to keep it simple and he won some good balls.His distribution for me was very good.Just a bad day at the office.

 

[Dynamo11]

MDM is unfairly getting torn apart imo, like the majority of the midfield he was hung out to dry by Pellers insistence on the formation

 

[oakiecokie]

Played ok for 15 mins the completely overrun.

Poor tactics tonight. Pellegrini should have matched them in midfield. Milner should have started.

According to Pelle he isn`t 100% fit,so why start with The Beast who clearly wasn`t 100% fit ??

 

[shevtheblue]

He was shit in defence and he is shit in mindfield. He is basically just shit. Everyone can see it apart from Pellegrini who seems blind to his shit performances. What Milner must think seeing him start ahead of him in midfield.

I don't think he was our worst player today, that tells you all you need to know about today's game.

That was the worst performance anyone has put in for us all year imo, so I don't know who you thought was worse than him tonight. Absolutely useless. Just lunged in and overcommited himself again and again, then compounded it by making no attempt whatsoever to even try and get back and make up for it. Showed that he has absolutely no clue how to play in midfield, so hopefully that's the last we see of him there

did you happen to watch the Watford game mate?

 

[Balti]

sorry but he looked well out of position tonight and we needed some steel in midfield so Milner should have played for me

 

[GoMancini7]

Never rated him, but today he was going to be slaughtered by the tactics of Pellegrini anyway. He has some skills but we could have done so much better with a younger, hungry, energetic midfielder (another one than Fernandinho) instead of him and also a strong defender like Pepe.

Garcia would have failed today as well vs pacy runs at him ad not much help from Yaya. Even Fernsandinho wuld have struggled today but at least he is capable of some magic display in the middle unlike Rodwell, garcia etc.