Player Topic: Eliaquim Mangala (2015/16)

[1961_vintage]

Coming up to not far off two years with us and post like this still keep getting posted Is there just a chance we got shafted and he's not all that?

Yes - hence the conundrum. Stick or twist?

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Did nothing spectacular today but the witchunt on him by the media and the like is disgusting.

Witch hunt? He was awful! Poor pass to Kolarov out of play right from the first kick off, miscontrolled the ball twice leading to Watford attacks in the first fifteen minutes, fell over his own feet almost leading to sticking his boot out to bring down Ighalo for a penalty. That was just the first half. Didn't need to get involved with Ighalo's body nor touch the ball for it to go out for a corner leading to their goal. Why did he barge into Ighalo? What was the need? He just needed to lead the ball out of play, not barge back into Ighalo (which lead to him being pushed by Ighalo which was probably a foul but even so a completely avoidable situation). Constantly giving the ball away too. Misjudges the bounce of the ball often too.

 

[NorCalBlue]

Send him to NYCFC and let Viera sort him out.

 

[blue ranger]

Poor poor player. Need a reliable replacement in January otherwise no chance of winning the league.

 

[carlosthejackal]

It's not a witch hunt, you can only judge on what you see and sadly he is constantly seconds away from an error .

 

[domalino]

I thought he did some brilliant things today, as well as a few shocking moments.

But let's be fair here.

Before the game, all the talk was about how watfords brilliant strike partnership were going to tear them apart, and because they've scored 90% of watfords goals, if you stop them, you beat Watford.

It wasn't always pretty, but they did that. They stopped deeney and Ighalo. Just like they stopped the other form striker partnership in Mahrez and Vardy.

It's a bit scary at times, certainly not comfortable watching, but this partnership is improving quite quickly. If it wasn't for a freak fuck up by Kolarov, and Bony ruining the offside trap against Sunderland, they'd have 3 clean sheets in a row.

Also nearly all the problems stemmed from Pellegrini playing 442. When sterling moved to the left after 20 minutes or so and we went 4231 the defence immediately looked 10x better.

 

[BigOscar]

I thought he did some brilliant things today, as well as a few shocking moments.

But let's be fair here.

Before the game, all the talk was about how watfords brilliant strike partnership were going to tear them apart, and because they've scored 90% of watfords goals, if you stop them, you beat Watford.

It wasn't always pretty, but they did that. They stopped deeney and Ighalo. Just like they stopped the other form striker partnership in Mahrez and Vardy.

It's a bit scary at times, certainly not comfortable watching, but this partnership is improving quite quickly. If it wasn't for a freak fuck up by Kolarov, and Bony ruining the offside trap against Sunderland, they'd have 3 clean sheets in a row.

Also nearly all the problems stemmed from Pellegrini playing 442. When sterling moved to the left after 20 minutes or so and we went 4231 the defence immediately looked 10x better.

Agreed. Ugly and a bit nerve wrecking, but effective today.

 

[machine9]

I blame the knob who thought he was good enough and signed him in the first place,just what did they see.

 

[eversince 76]

Too many mistakes to make him a defender others can rely on. Not the one game. A general conclusion after 16 months. I do believe he works his socks off to get it right but so far he hasn't.
Still think Pellegrini took his weakest link in defense off to try and win this game. Today it was Mangala. That decision was hopefully not based on former games.

 

[daveiw01]

Hence the reason why I think he won't come good. I don't think that can be coached by the age of 24. I can't see Pep (if we get him) accepting this level of sloppiness so he won't be in the side to come good. We will see. Obviously some people will think differently but to me he is an accident waiting to happen almost every game and will cost us points that we can I'll afford to lose.

I think or hope he will come good too with the right coaching. As for Pep, if I recal correctly Boateng was piss poor with us, but that doesn't stop him being a mainstay in Pep's Bayern does it?