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2024-25 Performances

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5.4 Season Average Rating
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Clean sheets
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Marvin look out said:
Varane at the same age was keeping up with Messi, I think he would survive Sulemana. But I agree Yoro isn't slow by any means and tonight will be a good learning experience for him.
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Sulemana was recorded as the fastest player at the World Cup a few years back. He’s insanely fast.

Bad game from Yoro but he will learn from it.
 
Amorim said that Yoro now is ready. Physically, he might be. But tonight, he got beaten in every possible scenario, thru pace, dribbling, positioning. People like to state that it's the system. No system will work if you can't defend the occasional one v one. He lost just about 90% of his duels with Sulemana.

What I don't understand is his inability or inexpensive, after you've got beaten few times, to go tight to the player when he is about to receive the ball. Don't allow him to turn. Because if he does, you are cooked.
 
It's good that performance didn't end up costing us anything. He'll learn from it.

Bit of a welcome to the PL moment for him.
 
Vidooq said:
Amorim said that Yoro now is ready. Physically, he might be. But tonight, he got beaten in every possible scenario, thru pace, dribbling, positioning. People like to state that it's the system. No system will work if you can't defend the occasional one v one. He lost just about 90% of his duels with Sulemana.

What I don't understand is his inability or inexpensive, after you've got beaten few times, to go tight to the player when he is about to receive the ball. Don't allow him to turn. Because if he does, you are cooked.
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Yeah ultimately his issue was giving that guy too much space and trying to defend him passively. That can work for him 90% of the time against most opposition, but players as rapid as Sulemana will roast you with that much space if they get a head of steam.
 
Thought he did well under the circumstances.
Show me any PL centre back that is going to keep up with sulemana.
There is none.
That guy is rapid
Makes me wonder why we don’t have anyone with that much actual pace because he is impossible to defend against
 
You should never go overboard with analysing players after every match. You need to judge players over half a season at least.

Tonight the winger got the better of him, it happens. Having a different starting RCB and RWB didn’t help.

But it’s no big deal. Learn from it and go again.
 
He’s young and adapting to the premier league. Probably lost his confidence when he got beat the first time and realised this guy was insanely fast.

Although concerning he didn’t adapt but that could be because he’s young. If it carries on and we have a theme of him not adapting, we should be concerned then.
 
I feel the experience of today will have him in good stead for the future. He got absolutely rinsed today and will have learned a lot and thankfully it didn't cost us. The long ball to Sulemana almost disappeared when De Ligt changed sides. He was aggressive in every duel and set a good tone. That alone will have taught him a lot. He has just turned 19 and obviously has the tools to be a fantastic signing for us but there is going to be the odd performance similar to this, let's just hope he is a quick learner.
 
I don't think I've ever seen a player get cooked that hard in my life. He's not forgetting that one for a while. I'm surprised that Amorim kept him on so long, but we didn't have anybody we pace to bring on instead.
 
A bad night at the office however he is a centre back who was actually forced to go up against a very fast winger with no back up. He is not a right back but effectively played defending as one tonight. He will come good.
 
Honestly thought his inexperience was what did him tonight, his positioning left him exposed everytime because even though Yoro is fast, Sulemana was just absolutely rapid and he couldn't make up the ground as he sometimes does. Hopefully he takes it on the chin and learns from it
 
Shane88 said:
Don't tell me we've bought another slow CB? Or is that winger just rapid?
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Either.

He was in the wrong position.
He was in the wrong league.
Their winger is the fastest in the world.

I hope he bounces back.
 
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I know it's too early to judge and he's back from a long injury lay off but I genuinely don't see anything special about him. Not just based on the very poor showing tonight but I don't think he's looked good in any game for us. He always looks somewhat shaky. He's regularly out of position. Isn't anywhere near as quick/athletic as I'd heard or expected.

He's made one or two decent challenges that get clipped up and put on YouTube but currently he's one of these players that I watch every week and wonder what all the fuss is about.

I hope he goes on to be a great player for us but I don't see any signs of it yet.
 
Seemed like inexperience and also a case of maybe being overly cautious after getting beaten a couple of times.

Hopefully will bounce back from this.
 
Alemar said:
Yoro is our fastest CB. The winger was just a cousin of Usain Bolt
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It’s also a case of him doing Yoro with the same trick almost every time. Slow down and then accelerate. Maybe Yoro should have wised up to it, but it’s a learning experience for him.
 
Are we whining about a 19yo who is new to Premier League and still gets limited playing time because he is still very slowly being introduced to senior football in England, by being used sparingly?
 
Valencia Shin Crosses said:
He’s rapid as feck. Ultimately toothless though as you saw today.
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I've said this a few times in this thread but I don't think Yoro is rapid by any means (yet) and was surprised by the automatic shouts of 'he's really fast' comments. I'm surprised someone like you, who has a keen eye for the details would say this.

He's not close to Amad/Garnacho like acceleration or Dalot/Hojlund speed/stride. He's not slow but right now, he doesn't have a first or second step of acceleration or a top speed based from the very little we've seen of him (and what I saw from his highlights last season in France). He's got great athletic potential with his length (arms/legs) and height but unsurprisingly, he's still got a teenager's body. He's going to have a lot of growing physically to get that 'man' strength.

Most worrying though is that he has an inconsistent approach to dealing with 1 on 1s leaving himself to get twisted far too easily.

Sulemana was definitely quick though and for comparison I think Dalot would have handled him just fine.
 
Shane88 said:
Don't tell me we've bought another slow CB? Or is that winger just rapid?
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From what we've seen so far he's certainly not slow, but perhaps he's not as fast as we hoped. Not just this match, there's been a couple of times previously where he's only looked 'fast' rather than 'really fast' like I personally was expecting based on some descriptions.

In saying that, players often increase their speed from the ages of 19-22.
 
I already saw glimpses of this performance in his other outings where everyone said he did well when alot of the goals we conceded came when he got off the bench and his side of the pitch.

I think his last ditch sliding tackles are great but he needs to play as the CCB rather than the RCB imo. De ligt is better at RCB than Yoro and it would allow Yoro not to be taken on too directly and concentrate more on pure defending much like Maguire
 
The Purley King said:
Thought he did well under the circumstances.
Show me any PL centre back that is going to keep up with sulemana.
There is none.
That guy is rapid
Makes me wonder why we don’t have anyone with that much actual pace because he is impossible to defend against
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He's young, it's to be expected, so it doesn't matter.

But what did he do well?
 
I’m worried about this signing. I knew nothing about him before he came. Apparently had a good season in France and Real Madrid were looking at him.

I’ve not seen a defender torn apart like that so often in a game. Like others I hope this is a learning curve for him but that just looked to easy last night.
 
Shaw's Shank Redemption said:
I already saw glimpses of this performance in his other outings where everyone said he did well when alot of the goals we conceded came when he got off the bench and his side of the pitch.

I think his last ditch sliding tackles are great but he needs to play as the CCB rather than the RCB imo. De ligt is better at RCB than Yoro and it would allow Yoro not to be taken on too directly and concentrate more on pure defending much like Maguire
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What goals?
 
Bon1803 said:
I’m worried about this signing. I knew nothing about him before he came. Apparently had a good season in France and Real Madrid were looking at him.

I’ve not seen a defender torn apart like that so often in a game. Like others I hope this is a learning curve for him but that just looked to easy last night.
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Why are you worried? He's young, he got schooled today but he didnt forget to play football nor is he suddenly a flop.
 
He got cooked today.
I like how Amorim is managing his minutes but he needed help and was constantly exposed.
He'll learn from this one.
Has not suddenly turned shit overnight.
 
The kids been hung out to dry. He should never have been left isolated against him all night. We pushed Amad and let Mazroui sit deep which left Yoro exposed. I would like to see anyone else try outpace that winger except Dalot. Sure he should have been tighter and not let him turn but he was playing CB not RB which means he jumps not sits. Amorim could gave fixed this by playing Mazroui at RWB. Then Yoro would be the cover when he got past Mazroui and it would have been fine. Not blaming Amorim. He has no wingbacks and Garnacho also didn't help on that side. And not blaming Garnacho cos he's not a 10. This was all a domino effect of square pegs in round holes
 
Harry190 said:
No. When the other guy is as strong and quick and fast as Suleymana and has acres of space around him, how much better would he have fared?
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A lot, otherwise Suleymana would've been a multiple times Ballon d'Or winner.
 
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