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2022-23 Performances

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6.2 Season Average Rating
Appearances
58
Clean sheets
25
Goals
0
Assists
0
Yellow cards
2
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OrcaFat said:
Yeah me too. If we can get a top striker, that would be my preference, first up, then keeper among the next upgrades if we have the funds.

The thing about keepers is that they all make mistakes in one way or another. They let in shots they should save, they come for crosses and miss, they pass it straight to an oppo, they give away pens. They are exposed all the time and you can’t get someone who is perfect. On the whole, Dave saves most stuff that he should save and quite a few that most keepers wouldn’t save. But we have to admit that stopping is quite a small part of a keeper’s job these days.

He’s been a good servant but I’d like to try a different style of keeper now; however, I wouldn’t know which keeper we can get (who will give us an overall improvement over Dave) for the money we’ll have available. Despite everything that counts against him, Dave is still quite highly rated and we can’t just stick anyone in there. If we could, why not Henderson or Heaton or Butland or Vitek?
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DDG has a lot of credit in the bank with fans and that’s all good. It’s when you know as a fan teams target him, it becomes more than a problem. Ronaldo had loyalty amongst former players but lowly WW exposed why he was a problem for the team, same applies to DDG and a weak point like that is a game changer. The same as how any energetic midfield will make our very best midfield combination look lacklustre.
This is a team sport and if your contribution weaken or handicap the team it’s a very big problem. I’m not one for denial because I like an individual, it’s all about 90 mins and what happens in that 90 mins, also what every individual does for 90 mins. The things that can’t be measured numerically are as important or a priority to me as much as the numbers, meaning things players do when not in contact with the ball.
So if people think someone to put the ball in the net is the priority, good on them but I believe there are other factors that play a bigger role to allowing for it to happen on a consistent basis.
I think our biggest problem right now is how open we are as team even with Casemiro on the pitch and the reason why he is always reaching into tackles, we don’t solve that by bringing in a striker to elongate the pitch. Like I said no individual position takes priority over another because they are all part of the team.
It only becomes a priority to sign when the right individual is available. I think signing Osimhen or Kane is a priority now because they are available and not because a striker should be prioritised over other problem areas.
 
While I understand the need to have a more modern goalkeeper with better distribution and more commanding of his area, I must admit the thought of replacing De Gea in the summer does concern me.

I remember the years of trying to replace Schmeichel and it wasn't until VDS came along that we found a true replacement (Barthez was fun at times though).

For all his faults De Gea is still an unbelievable shot stopper and has saved us a lot more than he has cost us this season in my opinion
 
KikiDaKats said:
DDG has a lot of credit in the bank with fans and that’s all good. It’s when you know as a fan teams target him, it becomes more than a problem. Ronaldo had loyalty amongst former players but lowly WW exposed why he was a problem for the team, same applies to DDG and a weak point like that is a game changer. The same as how any energetic midfield will make our very best midfield combination look lacklustre.
This is a team sport and if your contribution weaken or handicap the team it’s a very big problem. I’m not one for denial because I like an individual, it’s all about 90 mins and what happens in that 90 mins, also what every individual does for 90 mins. The things that can’t be measured numerically are as important or a priority to me as much as the numbers, meaning things players do when not in contact with the ball.
So if people think someone to put the ball in the net is the priority, good on them but I believe there are other factors that play a bigger role to allowing for it to happen on a consistent basis.
I think our biggest problem right now is how open we are as team even with Casemiro on the pitch and the reason why he is always reaching into tackles, we don’t solve that by bringing in a striker to elongate the pitch. Like I said no individual position takes priority over another because they are all part of the team.
It only becomes a priority to sign when the right individual is available. I think signing Osimhen or Kane is a priority now because they are available and not because a striker should be prioritised over other problem areas.
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Yeah. We do have several problem areas. The question is what is the biggest problem and what’s the best way to solve it? It’s definitely more complicated than just buying player X or player Y but we do lack a quality striker and if we can get the right guy it should help us a lot.

The midfield is struggling at the moment but when Case, Eriksen and Bruno are all fully fit, we look okay. It is a big problem when they are not, especially if more than one of them is out or below par. Sabitzer provides decent cover for one of them but after that we’re in trouble.

I don’t think anyone disagrees that we need to strengthen in several positions it’s just that the CF area is the most threadbare of all.
 
SadlerMUFC said:
And in many of those clean sheets there wasn't a save to make. De Gea either lets in none, or lets in a bunch. Look at our goals against. It's actually quite horrible
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Defending is done as a team. Some of those clean sheets include one difficult save that most gk don’t make.

Bad gk don’t get so many clean sheets, period.
 
OrcaFat said:
Yeah. We do have several problem areas. The question is what is the biggest problem and what’s the best way to solve it? It’s definitely more complicated than just buying player X or player Y but we do lack a quality striker and if we can get the right guy it should help us a lot.

The midfield is struggling at the moment but when Case, Eriksen and Bruno are all fully fit, we look okay. It is a big problem when they are not, especially if more than one of them is out or below par. Sabitzer provides decent cover for one of them but after that we’re in trouble.

I don’t think anyone disagrees that we need to strengthen in several positions it’s just that the CF area is the most threadbare of all.
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True that, it’s threadbare up there considering.
 
Brighton 0:0 Man Utd
A good performance but still another reason to get rid. His undeniable shot stopping brilliance has never extended to penalties.
 
Thought he has a very good game. One big save and very brave on the mitomina incident that should have seen a red for him
 
Fecking christ this man is the reason why I shit myself during penalty shootouts. He's so bad at them!!
 
Useless at penalties. He doesn't even dive, he just goes down. Make yourself bigger, man!
 
Imo ETH should have subbed him off for penalties, never saved one in his career during penalty series. What a sad stat.
 
Major part of the reason we have to go long so often in games like this but, other than that standard criticism, was perfectly good and showed no sign of being effected by his feck ups in the last game.
 
Clearly had a mandate to smash it up the pitch today. Might not have been a bad idea given it's a final and what happened last game. It does make it hard though, CBs like Dunk and Webster are going to relish that kind of hoof.

Some solid saves.

Poor in the shootout.
 
Kin ell, came in expecting plaudits for a quality performance and it’s more slating. You lot need to get a grip
 
He inspires no confidence, you just hope someone misses which luckily happened today. He takes up no room in his dive and his hands get soft all of a sudden.
 
He had a decent game apart of course from almost every long ball going to Brighton.
 
Honestly the worst penalty goalkeeper I've ever seen in my life. Telegraphing that he is diving to his right every single time. He makes the goal look massive really. Even when he dives the right way, he never gets close.

Made some good saves during the game though. Didn't give away a goal (or 3 like vs Sevilla). So that's something.
 
Even when he picks a side randomly, he's never too committed to make the save, dude he no approach for penalties, not even trash talking.
 
Cameras picked up the notes on his water bottle.

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Someone completely missing the goal was our only hope and thankfully it happened. He's shite at pens really.
 
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Shot stopping is quality, but his passing is so bad. It gives away possession so many times.

Shame that he didn't have both of them.

Might as well not be there for penalty shootouts.
 
Rajma said:
Imo ETH should have subbed him off for penalties, never saved one in his career during penalty series. What a sad stat.
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I was screaming at my TV in the final minutes of ET for ETH to sub on Butland. Hell, I bet even Weghorst would've done a better job. He'd have no problem making himself big at least.
 
Andersonson said:
Some terrific saves! Could easily have lost if he wasnt world class on the line.
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Yeah he produced a couple of saves. Isn't he a goalkeeper? Few games per season you are thinking those are the saves that perhaps only DDG and few more would make but today he had some good ones but really standard PL level keeper make them. His kicking has been awful along the penalties too. Of course he will get a praise but really he should be replaced in the summer. He's got no confidence to be playing at the top level anymore and we need a modern keeper, not someone who's got one prime trait..
 
Good shot stopper but was very poor playing the ball out today. I'm going to assume it was tactical but he played too many long balls today and they were either not accurate or we didn't have a striker who was able to control the ball when it arrived to them
 
Another forgotten reason why we do need to part ways with him this season, he is really poor in penalty shootouts and it fine margins when winning trophies
 
He really didn't make some oustanding saves. Free kick to his side isn't outstanding save, if he doesn't save that it's his fault. That shot from the volley was good, but he had clear vision and again good keeper should be saving that. Brighton keeper had the best save of the game easily.

Good game overall though, but he is embarassing on penalties and could have cost us a game like he did so many times on penalties.
 
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