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2015-16 Performances

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5.8 Season Average Rating
Appearances
39
Clean sheets
20
Goals
1
Assists
1
Yellow cards
10
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Decent first half. Suffered majorly when Memphis and Young switched wings. Memphis just doesn't help out defensively. Shaw has suffered from it in recent games, and now Darmian got it as well. That doesn't excuse his performance, as some things were all down to him, but he still needed help.
 
Funny how nobody was like this when Valencia had bad games(much like this one)
This game further highlighted how poor he is going forward and how he needs to improve upon that. He poorly marked Moreno and left way too much space in behind for the second goal, although Daley Blind had the biggest impact on that goal conceded.

I will cut him some slack, just because of how great he has been defensively and it is just one really bad game. Also I think he might be a bit fatigued. I've noticed on a multiple occasions that he really struggled to get back on defense leaving us vulnerable to chances being created on the right wing and counter attacks. I also think we should keep perspective that he is also adapting to the fast pace of the EPL as well. We should rest him our next game.
 
Wouldn't be surprised to see Darmian get dropped for the weekend
 
First bad game for us after nothing but top performances.

Pick ourselves up and go again. Just a bad day at the office for him.
 
Said this before but he just looks like a centre back playing at fullback to me. Not good enough on the ball / going forward (yet), especially for a team that dominates possession and needs the fullbacks to attack.

Needs to concentrate on defending corners too rather than trying to distract opposition
 
Poor today defensively Ffor the first time.


But what does he actually add in attack ? Needs to do lot more on that end.
 
Mistake prone and useless going forward. Still, it happens. I'd rest him.
 
Our worst player today easily. Weak for the first goal, and awful giveaway for the second goal. Gave us nothing going forward. He won't get much criticism because he's a new signing, but he was definitely the reason why we lost today.
 
Very poor game for him and as I said from the beginning, going forward he doesn't offer enough yet. Maybe a game or two on the bench wouldn't harm him. He's new to the club and played every game
 
First bad game, his counterpart is out for the season... This was a very bad day, need to move on quickly...
 
He had an absolute shocker tonight sad to say. Still like him though, sure he'll be much better in the coming weeks.
 
Bad game. I would have moved him to LB and kept the CB pairing the same but oh well. Maybe he does need a rest, it wouldn't surprise me.
 
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Very poor for us today, 2nd to Mata for our worst player on the pitch I think.
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Agreed, but in the other matches he's played he has proven to have been a good addition for us. Everyone has bad games. The marking on the corner was unfortunate, I think Blind was just as much to blame but the mistake for the second goal was just poor.
 
Offers nothing going forward and hasn't all season bar the odd game. Needs to really step up his attacking contribution.
 
He's giving us nothing going forward which is causing us problems cause given the sheer amount of the ball we have, we need our fullbacks to give us width. Move him to Centre back and play young at right-back I'd say.

As for his defending? Pretty confident that's about as bad as its gonna get through the season in that respect.
 
Gives us nothing going forward, never takes on a man, and this is the second match out of the last three that his defensive lapses have given up a goal where we lose by a goal. He looked awful on that goal by Moreno, as he did with Gomis´. I don´t see why we bought a right back that needs to be replaced by Valencia when we´re chasing a match.
 
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During the first half, I kept wondering where he was, that blonde seems to break every time. Poor display from him today.
 
Was poor today, but I'm not worried as he has been class in all the other games. Bad games happen from time to time.
 
Don't see why he should look anymore knackered than our other players so don't think that's a valid excuse. He just had a really poor game.

I think in general from what I've seen so far he needs to be better. Defensively it's only tonight he's looked bad (he never seemed to be anywhere!), but on the ball and going forwards he hasn't been good enough in any game so far for me...and that's what cost us the second goal tonight. He shows no composure and poor decision making with the ball. It's no good defending well if you're going to take yourself out of the game because you can't play a pass...tonight was the first tiime he's been punished for this but he does it too often.

The first goal he was just too weak.

I think he needs time before we'll see if he really has what it takes. He needs to add a lot more for me but then he's just come to the club from another country so I doubt we've seen him near his best and most confident yet.
 
Would be nice if we had Rafa to come in and give him a break. We'd get more attack down our right side anyway. Instead we'll get Valencia who gives us neither defensive solidity or an attacking threat. Who usually plays on Southampton's left? After that we have Sunderland at home, that'd be the ideal one to rest him for.
 
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