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2018-19 Performances


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5.1 Season Average Rating
Appearances
18
Clean sheets
4
Goals
0
Assists
0
Yellow cards
1
Red cards
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Thought he had a very good first season and looked to be a very solid buy for Jose. Seems as though injuries and being out of the team he's kind of lost now.

The defence is a quite a mess though with so many changes and injuries, I can only think of Jones and Rojo at times last season who dug deep and formed something like a partnership. It really is a ramshackle outfit of make do's.
 
At first I thought he was a lump of coal that with the right coaching could be turned in to a diamond. But I am not so sure anymore. Either the coaching is not there, or he simply wasn’t the talent I thought :confused:
 
At first I thought he was a lump of coal that with the right coaching could be turned in to a diamond. But I am not so sure anymore. Either the coaching is not there, or he simply wasn’t the talent I thought :confused:

He looks like he has raw talent to me and right now hes seriously lacking confidence
 
I think Bailly is arguably the most natural skilled CB we have but his form and injury history is hugely worrying.
Hopefully he comes through it.
 
It's odd because he shows moments of amazing composure, knowing when to tackle strong or stand up, or when to drop a shoulder and give himself some space. And yet at others, he's complete panic stations.
 
He looks like he has raw talent to me and right now hes seriously lacking confidence
I agree to some extent, but I think he also lacks awareness and has poor positioning and poor judgement. This was shown also last season, for example against Sevilla. Part of this could come from lacking confidence and from the constant rotation of CBs.
 
I agree to some extent, but I think he also lacks awareness and has poor positioning and poor judgement. This was shown also last season, for example against Sevilla. Part of this could come from lacking confidence and from the constant rotation of CBs.

Most young inexperienced CBs do. That is where the coaching comes in.
 
It's odd because he shows moments of amazing composure, knowing when to tackle strong or stand up, or when to drop a shoulder and give himself some space. And yet at others, he's complete panic stations.

Confidence. He's had his completely destroyed by Mourinho, as have most of the other players. It's magnified as a defender because any mistake usually equals a goal.

I'm reserving judgement on any of our players from now until the day Mourinho goes.
 
He was fine.

But then Valencia were so good at shitting themselves whenever they had the slightest attacking opportunity that even Lindelof would have been fine in this game.
 
Nothing has changed. He's inconsistent as all hell. Capable of being great one week, terrible the next. Until he starts leaning significantly more towards the former he can't really be trusted.

Fair. That's true, but you'd think he never had any good performances for us after all the posts since Brighton. And he's clearly better than Lindelof.
 
Our only exciting player, he might be good for a red card or a penalty but at least he's entertaining. Jokes aside I thought he played well today, he and Smalling both did I thought. I'd like to see less attempted 40 yard volleys though. Needs to show a bit of consistency, I'd start him at the weekend, at least he actually does something when he plays.
 
Still believe he's our best defender. He's aggressive and actually intercepts the ball once in a while rather than sitting back - which is probably why he isn't favoured by Jose.
 
He’s our best defender, but you can see why Jose is reluctant to play him and Smalling together. Puts so much pressure on the midfield to get the ball out from the back.
 
He is very erratic. Would hate playing along side him but in that sort of madness of the way he plays he does some good things, like intercepting the ball in the oppositions half. He might be leaving us ridiculously exposed if he misses but didn’t happen this time.
 
Had a good game but inspires no confidence at all for those around him. How can he when he goes around trying to fly kick what he should be heading?
 
He is not really smart and professional. I don't think it's exactly something we need at the moment, so he should try to be more serious during some moments.
 
Terrible really.

So bad on the ball it's frightening.

Another blunder by the geeks on here and twitter who worshipped him when he came. Everyone with a brain new he was a horror player.
 
Didn’t he head the ball jumping vertical through the air sometime close to the end?

Absolute nuthead, but he was fine tonight.
 
He is quality to watch. And alongside better defensive partners, he would shine IMO.

We really need new full backs and a new partner for him. I don’t think Dalot, Shaw and Lindelöf are that bunch. We need experienced ones like Alderweireld and Sandro.
 
He is quality to watch. And alongside better defensive partners, he would shine IMO.

We really need new full backs and a new partner for him. I don’t think Dalot, Shaw and Lindelöf are that bunch. We need experienced ones like Alderweireld and Sandro.

Buy three defenders so one injury prone far from perfect defender might shine? I agree that Lindelof is likely not good enough but Shaw and Dalot are showing promise that they can make it at the club.

A different centreback partner might help him since our centrebacks are average at best but we cant replace our whole defense just for Bailly...
 
He is so godly athletic that it almost looks like he surprises himself with a lot of things. Once he figures how to harness all that energy, he will be a phenomenal player
 
Nothing has changed. He's inconsistent as all hell. Capable of being great one week, terrible the next. Until he starts leaning significantly more towards the former he can't really be trusted.

Think he's a bit immature in his decision making and ideally needed an older and more experienced player next to him. I think it doesn't help with changing the back four every fecking game.
 
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