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2024-25 Performances


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6.1 Season Average Rating
Appearances
28
Clean sheets
8
Goals
0
Assists
2
Yellow cards
3
Man Utd 0:2 Newcastle New
Please stop playing him at wingback. Atrocious today, again. Put him back at RCB where he was mint, with De Ligt and Maguire maybe (which has the added benefit of trying a game or two without Martinez, who also has been meh).

He has no understanding of the position and cannot resist the urge to get sucked inwards making us lose our width. He doesn't seem to have the stamina or mobility to cover the huge space required defensively.
 
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Is he playing through injury? I’ve never seen anybody make such a limp dick attempt to block so many crosses
 
Absolutely dusted in the first half. Gordon beat him clean with skill first, then later he came inside and got his cross in too easily for Newcastle's 2nd. Also tried to dribble out the back and lost the ball before all the rest.

Second half he did improve, had more success winning the ball and put in 1 good cross. Still poor overall but at least he improved on being awful in the first half
 
Not a wingback. Please stop playing him there Ruben. For the love of god.
 
Just doesn't have the engine to play that role. He is technically very good, however, he never was the marauding fullback even in a 4. If we have to play a fullback at RWB it has to be Dalot over him Although really we should be playing Antony or Amad there.
 
He categorically can't play as a wingback. He doesn't know what to do defensively (and it cost us both goals, somehow he still tried to defend that inside channel that he's usually responsible for as a part of a back three despite, well, playing in a different role) and offensively he's pretty much useless there (he's good on the ball but he's better when he's coming inside).

Our worst defender tonight... in an absolutely hopeless backline.
 
He's been awful this month. Did nothing to properly prevent those crosses getting in.
 
Needs to play as a RCB. He gets ducked in that position instead of keeping his width.

Either Antony or Amad as RWB.
 
Not a wingback his poor performance are on nothing other than the manager.

He absolutely works as the right sided center back.

The team should be fielding Mazouroi, De Ligt and Yoro.
 
Needs to play as a RCB. He gets ducked in that position instead of keeping his width.

Either Antony or Amad as RWB.
Amad was great every time he play wing back. I don't know why he is moved from there. With him there you have Maz on defender and Dalot on his natural position.
 
Amad was great every time he play wing back. I don't know why he is moved from there. With him there you have Maz on defender and Dalot on his natural position.

We also don't have a 10 who can play behind the striker, so I understand that. Antony is the one who should play, he seems the best option currently.
 
I’m starting to think he seems a better RCB than a full back. In this system at least. We just don’t possess much of an attacking threat with the current fullbacks.
 
You know you are in big big trouble as a team when your only two performing players (in Mazraoui and Amad) also start to struggle. As we've seen over and over again, the useless ones (and we have a squad full of them) will eventually bring the decent ones down to their level.
 
I’m starting to think he seems a better RCB than a full back. In this system at least. We just don’t possess much of an attacking threat with the current fullbacks.

He'd be more effective there I think. He's the Sancho of fullbacks...in a good way though! He likes to come into midfield , keep possesion with nice interplay etc. But we don't play that way so he is effectively useless in the formation. Maybe at RCB but honestly I'd prefer Yoro or De Ligt there so really he should just be benched.
 
He has been awful for couple of games now. They have exposed my concern when he was signed - his lack of pace/intensity as a RB. His failure to close down Newcastle players for their two goals was unacceptable.
 
He has been awful for couple of games now. They have exposed my concern when he was signed - his lack of pace/intensity as a RB. His failure to close down Newcastle players for their two goals was unacceptable.
There's a big difference between a RB and a RWB. He's a very good RB; very few are good RWB's, and he certainly isn't one of them.
 
Needs to play as a RCB. He gets ducked in that position instead of keeping his width.

Either Antony or Amad as RWB.

Agreed. Would prefer Amad but as we can't field any other 10 in this position I think it's more beneficial to play Amad there and Antony as the RWB
 
I was one of those advocating for him to be moved to RWB as I thought he had more to offer on the ball than he was afforded at RCB, but I was clearly wrong. It has exposed a few weaknesses in his game and we’ve looked overall much worse with him there and not in the back 3.

I would still probably prefer him over Dalot at LWB if the manager wanted to field Yoro at RCB, though.