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2022-23 Performances

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Jesus he's taking a hammering! I would add some mitigation.

He's moved from Feyenoord to Man United. That's a huge difference. Much bigger than Ajax to United, I'd say.

He is constantly in and out of the side which is never easy for a player. Yes you have to earn a spot by playing well, but if you look at Dalot, he only ever hit a patch of form at United when he played consistently for 90 mins.

He has actually played some solid games, against good sides earlier in the season. It was probably a bit of an adrenaline dump, but still. Recent form is poor but if he can get back to that level all is not lost for him.
 
It was a bad mistake but sometimes you need your teammates to give you a shout...maybe DDG could of helped him out?

But he is young and mistakes happen, no big deal.
 
Hopeless last night. Like an Ole era AWB performance.

I have faith that he'll come good though.
 
He's been very good this season, a first season and in an important role. He'll get better and better. He had a poor moment and it cost a goal, and he'll be better for that. But he shouldn't be 'blamed' for what happened second-half. That's unfair.

Sevilla changed their line-up and formation, and were better than we were. Malacia is a good young player, who has delivered a lot of v promising displays.
 
Really, really poor all night. Not just the goal. What I find with him, is that he has one particular quality that can be both positive and negative. And that's his enthusiasm. That's why you see him commit multiple mistakes in the same passage of play. He's so eager and enthusiastic to make up for the mistake, rather than having a calm head, he often compounds the error. He's a tenacious player, and I think he's been ok for us, but he's clearly very limited, and I'm not sure he's going to improve drastically from here.
 
Our worst full back performance since a past it Ashley Young was turning up week in week out.
 
RedDevilQuebecois said:
I hope we set the bar a lot higher in the future. Being a good lad should not be a reason to tolerate his personal limits, especially when those are glaringly hurting us when it matters.
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Absolutely.
 
Watched the goal again, he literally watches the ball go inches past him, DDG audibly shouts away and he just watches it go to Navas and reacts too late. Bit like the Silva goal against City last year.

Terrible defending, hopefully he learns from it and it doesn't happen again.
 
It was an awful mistake and he didn't have a good game, but my god the memories are short around here. Go back to the Brentford threadmark and people are rightfully noting what a great squad player/exciting prospect he is. Now, apparently he's no better than Alex Telles...
 
It was a mistake you'd imagine he will learn from. I don't associate him with being a player that often switches off. He's young, mistakes happen.
 
Last game he was amazing and people wanted him to stay in the side over Shaw, but suddenly he is shite and should be replaced by Dalot :lol:

(Just to be clear, he was terrible last night)

AltiUn said:
Our worst full back performance since a past it Ashley Young was turning up week in week out.
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Have you not seen Luke Shaw at Anfield?
 
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Malacia is a decent enough player.

Quite frankly, all our fullbacks take it in turns to have periods of being absolute shite. It's just Malacia's turn now. Next month it could very well be Shaw again, or Dalot or Wan Bissaka.
 
Catalandevil said:
He is a good player, but he had a torrid performance last night.
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He’s no better than what we had in reserve before him, and that’s the problem. He is years away from being able to keep Shaw out, and Shaw hasn’t been that great. We aren’t trying to bring in players to be levels below what we already have; we are trying to push the first teamers with hungry young players who are as good or better. Malacia is nowhere near Shaw’s level, and age has nothing to do with it.
 
He's a good young squad player who had a nightmare game during a downturn in form. Means nothing in the long run.

He may never be Shaws level but if we're going to rebuild this squad we'll need to buy shrewd like this more often. Think what better value we've had already than the likes of VDB.
 
He has had several very good performances this season. Against Sevilla he was bad yes, but to early to write him off.
Or should we get rid of Shaw after his Anfield performance. (of course not)
 
At the very least Malacia needs stability and guidance from more composed and experienced heads in a backline. His mistakes and overzealousness aren't surprising in a young full-back, but there are obvious pitfalls because of that.

It'll be remiss of opposing managers to not isolate and go at him heavily, especially so when our LCB on his inside is a position now in dissaray no matter who starts there. Shaw's a baby in the role and may not have the organisational awareness from that position to do his job whilst instructing someone else; Maguire is a poor organiser at the best of times and is likely to make mistakes of his own when heavily pressured and Lindelof is Lindelof, so Malacia is more an island than not with any of them on his inside. It may be on Casemiro to try and guide that side of defence.

In the absence of Martinez, I expect we'll see a sizeable uptake on attacks down our left side.
 
RuudTom83 said:
It was a bad mistake but sometimes you need your teammates to give you a shout...maybe DDG could of helped him out?

But he is young and mistakes happen, no big deal.
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Apparently DDG did and it was loud enough for the commentators (I think) to hear
 
Amar__ said:
Last game he was amazing and people wanted him to stay in the side over Shaw, but suddenly he is shite and should be replaced by Dalot :lol:

(Just to be clear, he was terrible last night)



Have you not seen Luke Shaw at Anfield?
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This ... Short termism. Dalot has had way more terrible performances than Malacia, that's for sure. Not sure in what way he improved Malacia personally.

Even Luke Shaw who is obviously a much higher quality player, but has dropped a few stinkers this season as well. It happens

One ETH needs to keep an eye on though, the issue with Licha gone is Shaw probably comes into CB. This means we don't have a replacement for Malacia if he's having another increasingly bad game, except we pull Shaw to LB and bring someone else off the bench.
 
Fortitude said:
At the very least Malacia needs stability and guidance from more composed and experienced heads in a backline. His mistakes and overzealousness aren't surprising in a young full-back, but there are obvious pitfalls because of that.

It'll be remiss of opposing managers to not isolate and go at him heavily, especially so when our LCB on his inside is a position now in dissaray no matter who starts there. Shaw's a baby in the role and may not have the organisational awareness from that position to do his job whilst instructing someone else; Maguire is a poor organiser at the best of times and is likely to make mistakes of his own when heavily pressured and Lindelof is Lindelof, so Malacia is more an island than not with any of them on his inside. It may be on Casemiro to try and guide that side of defence.

In the absence of Martinez, I expect we'll see a sizeable uptake on attacks down our left side.
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There have been many games this season where Malacia has nullified all the threat from the right that teams have thrown at us. If he has one of these sorts of games though, without any real help from his LW partner on that side, like last night, we'll be in for a long 90 mins.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
He’s no better than what we had in reserve before him, and that’s the problem. He is years away from being able to keep Shaw out, and Shaw hasn’t been that great. We aren’t trying to bring in players to be levels below what we already have; we are trying to push the first teamers with hungry young players who are as good or better. Malacia is nowhere near Shaw’s level, and age has nothing to do with it.
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I agree vastly overrated player that will be gone as soon as Alvero Fernandez steps up to the full squad. He’s hungry, but lacks height positional awareness and let’s face it he’s awful going forward.
 
Glorio said:
This ... Short termism. Dalot has had way more terrible performances than Malacia, that's for sure. Not sure in what way he improved Malacia personally.

Even Luke Shaw who is obviously a much higher quality player, but has dropped a few stinkers this season as well. It happens

One ETH needs to keep an eye on though, the issue with Licha gone is Shaw probably comes into CB. This means we don't have a replacement for Malacia if he's having another increasingly bad game, except we pull Shaw to LB and bring someone else off the bench.
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Yep, also Shaw has proved to be poor alongside Maguire too, so I think we'll have to change something there too, I think those two have a history of our worst couple in defence over the last few years when they are placed next to eachother.
 
Fortitude said:
At the very least Malacia needs stability and guidance from more composed and experienced heads in a backline. His mistakes and overzealousness aren't surprising in a young full-back, but there are obvious pitfalls because of that.

It'll be remiss of opposing managers to not isolate and go at him heavily, especially so when our LCB on his inside is a position now in dissaray no matter who starts there. Shaw's a baby in the role and may not have the organisational awareness from that position to do his job whilst instructing someone else; Maguire is a poor organiser at the best of times and is likely to make mistakes of his own when heavily pressured and Lindelof is Lindelof, so Malacia is more an island than not with any of them on his inside. It may be on Casemiro to try and guide that side of defence.

In the absence of Martinez, I expect we'll see a sizeable uptake on attacks down our left side.
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There have also been games when he’s given his opponent a torrid time.

Martinez’ absence is obviously huge. He’s someone who has the quality and composure to deal with pressure and tight situations which gives the entire back line confidence and replacing him and Varane with Maguire and Lindelof may add indecision to our defending.

Then again Malacia may have a few great games with our right side being weaker and teams having to target that instead. Basically I’d like to (actually I wouldn’t) see a bigger sample before concluding him to be a big weak link or something.
 
Poor Malacia, he's being murdered here :lol:

Does show that you should listen to my negative nancy rubbish about Eredivisie players being not ready. I really hoped I was entirely mistaken after his first few games, but I just don't think he has the potential to be world class. He's just too eratic. Little composure and prone to making rash decisions and challenges. He makes up for it with tenacity and in the Dutch league that was more than enough to take out his attacker, but it's a different level now.
 
He was so good in the early part of the season, but since the recent Shaw absence he's been the complete opposite.

But of course one of the biggest issues on the left side all season has been the winger tracking back or a midfielder covering appropriately. Both Shaw and Malacia find themselves more isolated than their RB counterpart, so we are bound to concede more from that side...which I'm pretty sure we do.
 
Glorio said:
There have been many games this season where Malacia has nullified all the threat from the right that teams have thrown at us. If he has one of these sorts of games though, without any real help from his LW partner on that side, like last night, we'll be in for a long 90 mins.
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It's not just the support ahead as Martinez does a tremendous amount of work communicating with his full-back and instructing Malacia is essential. We've now got nobody back there to do that for us, so it compounds with what you mentioned.

It's a no-brainer to attack us on that side and put our organisation and nerve to the test. Malacia loses his head frequently as it is, so it is most likely to be a testy time.

I prefer we take the initiative and attack, at least that way we reduce the opportunities to isolate him.


amolbhatia50k said:
There have also been games when he’s given his opponent a torrid time.

Martinez’ absence is obviously huge. He’s someone who has the quality and composure to deal with pressure and tight situations which gives the entire back line confidence and replacing him and Varane with Maguire and Lindelof may add indecision to our defending.

Then again Malacia may have a few great games with our right side being weaker and teams having to target that instead. Basically I’d like to (actually I wouldn’t) see a bigger sample before concluding him to be a big weak link or something.
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If he gets the nod, he'll have a real coming of age party... one way or another. I don't see a way to mitigate no matter what we do with him regardless.
 
Think he's a middling player with a high technical ceilling who will likely develop into a good player but has some very frustrating tendencies (especially in the final third). A snip at €14mn and easily better than Williams or Telles have been and although he cost us in this game with a judgment error he's absolutely fine for a back up LB.
 
The official line is injured but I don't believe it. I think he is being disciplined after ignoring the ball and his teammates last week.
 
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