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2015-16 Performances

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5.9 Season Average Rating
Appearances
56
Clean sheets
22
Goals
2
Assists
4
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I reckon at least another two avoidable spankings before Van Gaal finally realises what a stupid idea Blind as a centreback is.

The first of which may well be our next league game.

I still can't get my head around why anyone would think this is a good idea. In fact until this weekend there were plenty of people still claiming it was working. Every game in which we've had defending to do Blind has been a disaster.

It's not his fault. He knows where to stand but he doesn't know what to do, so his solution usually is to do nothing in case what he does do is wrong. I don't blame him for that as he doesn't have the speed or strength to gain the confidence to play there...but he shouldn't be fecking playing there, for exactly this very obvious indeed bloody reason.
 
noodlehair said:
I reckon at least another two avoidable spankings before Van Gaal finally realises what a stupid idea Blind as a centreback is.

The first of which may well be our next league game.

I still can't get my head around why anyone would think this is a good idea. In fact until this weekend there were plenty of people still claiming it was working. Every game in which we've had defending to do Blind has been a disaster.

It's not his fault. He knows where to stand but he doesn't know what to do, so his solution usually is to do nothing in case what he does do is wrong. I don't blame him for that as he doesn't have the speed or strength to gain the confidence to play there...but he shouldn't be fecking playing there, for exactly this very obvious indeed bloody reason.
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It was working, we had the joint best defensive record in the league. Saying that I would prefer to see Rojo or Jones in there.
 
Not only that but Carrick's been terrible in central midfield, so if Blind wasn't busy pretending to be a centreback he'd probably be a better option there at the moment too.

Or even left back, where we seem to try someone different every game, despite knowing Blind can do a decent job there against most opponents.
 
Getsme said:
It was working, we had the joint best defensive record in the league. Saying that I would prefer to see Rojo or Jones in there.
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No it wasn't. It cost us the game against Swansea, in contributed massively yesterday. It's cost us goals in every game where the opposition has attacked us.

We HAD the joint best defensive record in the league, but we have the ball more than most teams. Also not everyone had the luxury of playing Newcastle and Sunderland at home in their first 7 games. Add to that Smalling has been playing very well...but it's very clear he's over compensating and needs a decent defensive partner.
 
At home he has been fine and against Villa. Villa were useless.

But like it's been said, when up against teams that attacked us then we struggled. For me, we should play him left back and just play Jones.
 
11101 said:
Nothing wrong at all with Blind in that clip. He's in the perfect position relative to Walcott and as the last defender the guys in front of him should be chasing Walcott out. If Walcott had managed to lay that ball off to the Arsenal player (Bellerin?) Smalling would have been taken completely out of the game.

Some people have been waiting all season to jump on Blind when the whole defence (and midfield) were at fault.
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This. LVG was spot on when he said after the game that it was team wide collapse
 
Bojan11 said:
At home he has been fine and against Villa. Villa were useless.

But like it's been said, when up against teams that attacked us then we struggled. For me, we should play him left back and just play Jones.
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Swansea, Southampton and Arsenal. Struggled a bit, not helped vs Arsenal by the fullbacks though.
 
Brwned said:
Do you think he's worked it out yet? Or should we give him a couple more months to get on the same page as you?
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Do I get to bump this then after what happened yesterday was basically exactly what I feared would happen eventually?
 
noodlehair said:
No it wasn't. It cost us the game against Swansea, in contributed massively yesterday. It's cost us goals in every game where the opposition has attacked us.

We HAD the joint best defensive record in the league, but we have the ball more than most teams. Also not everyone had the luxury of playing Newcastle and Sunderland at home in their first 7 games. Add to that Smalling has been playing very well...but it's very clear he's over compensating and needs a decent defensive partner.
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Shit play all round cost us at Swansea and all the team contributed massively to the defeat yesterday, including those who are playing in the natural positions. The panic in here over one result is fecking nauseating, we are joint second in the league and only two points behind City yet you’d fecking think we are in Chelsea’s position.
 
noodlehair said:
No it wasn't. It cost us the game against Swansea, in contributed massively yesterday. It's cost us goals in every game where the opposition has attacked us.

We HAD the joint best defensive record in the league, but we have the ball more than most teams. Also not everyone had the luxury of playing Newcastle and Sunderland at home in their first 7 games. Add to that Smalling has been playing very well...but it's very clear he's over compensating and needs a decent defensive partner.
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So whenever teams score against us it is always down to Blind playing in CB? Bullshit. Darmian was the worst of the lot yesterday and Smalling was just as bad. For Swansea's first goal Smalling failed to follow his man and stood there while two Swansea players were wide open in the box. For the second Darmian failed to track the runner and Smalling failed to notice the runner behind him as well. But of course those were all Blind's fault no doubt.
 
Getsme said:
Shit play all round cost us at Swansea and all the team contributed massively to the defeat yesterday, including those who are playing in the natural positions. The panic in here over one result is fecking nauseating, we are joint second in the league and only two points behind City yet you’d fecking think we are in Chelsea’s position.
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You deserve some reward.
 
Santiago_KinderBueno said:
Van gaal wouldn't want hoof ball either unless we are desperate.
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When you are under pressure in your box, you have to be desperate. You hoof the ball, leave your deep positioning, press the ball carrier and allow yourself to set an higher defensive line. Now when you retake possession you pursue your possession football philosophy.

That's common sense.
 
Santiago_KinderBueno said:
I dont get the panic either. Infact its games like these that might give LVG the kick he needs to give the likes of pereira and wilson a try. Either way we are 2nd/3rd and i doubt we are going to go down rather than up.
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Indeed. The future is looking very bright. It might not be obvious to outsiders but I'd have thought those who follow the club closely would be able to see it.
Instant success has never happened in English football yet for some reason we are expecting it after the clubs biggest transition in recent memory,
 
I still can't fathom how we didn't sign a centre back and elect to play Blind there. Yesterday we ended up with three of the back four being midfielders, ffs.
 
Ryan7 said:
I still can't fathom how we didn't sign a centre back and elect to play Blind there. Yesterday we ended up with three of the back four being midfielders, ffs.
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That's 1 more than Bayern Munich have had at multiple times this season. Barcelona have predominantly thrived on Pique and converted midfielders since Puyol retired.

Think that entrenched view that it is wrong is more of a problem personally. Football evolves and adapts. Ball possession is king right now and midfielders, especially intelligent ones such as Blind, simply offer more than an outright defender.
 
FC Ronaldo said:
That's 1 more than Bayern Munich have had at times this season.

Think that entrenched view is a problem personally. Football evolves and adapts. Ball possession is king right now and midfielders, especially intelligent ones such as Blind, simply offer more than an outright defender.
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His retention of the ball doesn't help if he gets exposed. For me we won't win any major trophy with a centre back pairing of Smalling and Blind.
 
Ryan7 said:
His retention of the ball doesn't help if he gets exposed. For me we won't win any major trophy with a centre back pairing of Smalling and Blind.
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Any exposure was down to the lack of control from the midfield in front though. It would be wrong to pick up the defender as a fault when the midfield stopped nothing. Criticism is fair enough if he's directly to blame - like arguably a big screw up vs wolfsburg - but in this instance, him and Mike were simply unprotected and allowed to be over run.
 
We concede goals it's Blinds fault, even if Blind weren't involved whatsoever it's LVGs crazy experiment that's cost us, unbelievable.
 
Skills said:
If Smalling's going to get criticised for that, Blind's clearance for the first goal was a complete disgrace. What the feck was he thinking? That is our ball playing centre half who's solely there for his ball playing ability, and he cleared the ball 15 yards in our half straight back to Arsenal.
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I'm with you on that, my argument is nobody in our defence played well against Arsenal. Really amazed me to see Smalling had 9% of the MoM votes on here!
 
Santiago_KinderBueno said:
It's because with jones and smallimg we get a really flat back line. With blind in there you are able to make up to all the deficiencies smalling has. Even if it was jones playing on the right; then it would be blind on the left.

If this was La Liga then we would have 2 ball playing defenders but we cant do that in the premiership. We need one strong defender & one ball playing one.

At the end of the day; id prefer blind in defence and his ability to unmarked assist numerous times this season than drop him only for a whole teams shitty performance.
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There's no reason he can't play those long through balls from left back really.
 
No one played well for Holland tonight but I thought Blind's attitude was the best of any in an orange shirt, he never let his head drop and kept competing for every ball.
 
Devil may care said:
No one played well for Holland tonight but I thought Blind's attitude was the best of any in an orange shirt, he never let his head drop and kept competing for every ball.
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I don't think he has it in him to let it drop, he seems like the a ultimate professional.
 
I found it interesting that Blind was not in the lineup and we played with more of a counterattacking approach. He has done quite well at CB for the most part but having a more solid CB pairing might allow us to use that strategy more often.
 
marlowe78 said:
I found it interesting that Blind was not in the lineup and we played with more of a counterattacking approach. He has done quite well at CB for the most part but having a more solid CB pairing might allow us to use that strategy more often.
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I don't think LvG was comfortable with Blind against Lukaku and who would be.

We are going to need him against teams that will park the bus, he is a good player to have in the squad.
 
YouOnlyLiveTwice said:
I don't think LvG was comfortable with Blind against Lukaku and who would be.

We are going to need him against teams that will park the bus, he is a good player to have in the squad.
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Hes also played just about every minute of every game. This last couple of weeks LVG has started to rest the odd player and he will have to continue doing so.
 
I want him to be our LB midweek. He has quite a bit to offer going forward, will help Memphis better than Rojo. Tbf Rojo deserves to keep his spot.
 
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Tidy and calm when he came on, just settled things down on that flank.
 
He's very underrated and unfairly criticised. He should 100% be starting ahead of Rojo at left back.
 
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