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2024-25 Performances

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4.9 Season Average Rating
Appearances
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Clean sheets
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Assists
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Yellow cards
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Good half. Keeping Saka quiet is one of the hardest jobs a fullback in this league will face and Malacia did pretty well. Never seems to give the ball away either.

Feels like he's still half a yard slow and obviously getting up to 90' is gonna be a struggle, but we need him a lot more than we'd like to now.
 
2mufc0 said:
Malacia hasn't played football for almost 18 months? (could be more), his fitness level is no worse than Yoro. Evans could have played in the middle of the three so he would be less likely to be exposed in wide areas.
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Yoro is an 18 year old in a new league. Very few managers start the new prospect away. And he’s obviously one they want to protect much more. And have Maguire then exposed in wide areas? Amorim chose the best back three we had available and the more defensively minded wingbacks we had. It’s pretty plain to see. None of this shows ‘Amorim likes him and we have to trust his judgement here.’ He’s just trying him out as much as he’s trying out everyone / using the closest round peg to round hole we have available.
 
didz said:
Good half. Keeping Saka quiet is one of the hardest jobs a fullback in this league will face and Malacia did pretty well. Never seems to give the ball away either.

Feels like he's still half a yard slow and obviously getting up to 90' is gonna be a struggle, but we need him a lot more than we'd like to now.
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He was probably the best man to man marker in Holland before he joined us
 
Oldham said:
Did well today...
Not surprised he got hooked off second half as I guess Amorim wanted more attacking thread. But it backfired
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Agreed, played well. Amorim said right now he can only play for a certain amount of time so he had to take him off. Understandable given how long he's been out for.
 
Ayoba said:
Agreed, played well. Amorim said right now he can only play for a certain amount of time so he had to take him off. Understandable given how long he's been out for.
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Also the booking he was on was trouble waiting to happen and we needed to get Amad on for an attacking threat.
 
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Was defensively composed and was often free to receive the ball when we were attacking, but Martinez consistently overlooked him
 
Has been out long and this needs to find his feet again but he needs to improve fast. This isn't good enough. Although to be fair to him he was paired with one of our worst players at the moment on the left
 
He's a full back, he likes to defend more than attack. There's no role suitable for a player of his qualities in this system.
 
Trex said:
He's a full back, he likes to defend more than attack. There's no role suitable for a player of his qualities in this system.
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Yep. Five defenders on the pitch won’t work for us. It’s probably one of the main reasons Amad has played at right wing back, he’s the only wide attacking player that has defensive qualities.
 
Dan_F said:
Yep. Five defenders on the pitch won’t work for us. It’s probably one of the main reasons Amad has played at right wing back, he’s the only wide attacking player that has defensive qualities.
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Yes when Antony and Garnacho got on the pitch all of a sudden the opponent had more to worry about.
Long term both wingbacks need to be players who will contribute goals and assist regularly.
 
True, but again, he was high up on the pitch on multiple occasions and Martinez choose to not play to him basically every single time
 
Shabby as she goes said:
True, but again, he was high up on the pitch on multiple occasions and Martinez choose to not play to him basically every single time
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Yeah that was certainly odd. Martinez is someone who likes to release the ball quick when he can. He's overthinking it whether by instinct (because of how vulnerable we are in transition) or by tactics (being asked to keep the ball better etc). As soon as we were a goal down, he started passing much faster, carried the ball and picked a few passes in between the lines.

I'm surprised by how match ready Malacia seems after being out so long but it's evident, he's still lacks sharpness and sometimes overestimates his ability. He's quite nimble on the ball and has good awareness but a half turn, feint or hesitation isn't enough to buy him half a yard of space when the opposition is on top of you. If he can return to the level he showed in the first year, I'd be happy but still wanting to see more productivity going forward.
 
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