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Antonio Rudiger

On 12/09/2017 at 19:20, Davey Baby said:

I agree he looks pretty limited on the ball but against Leicester he made two vital headers in the first-half, strong, powerful, brave headers when Leicester could easily have scored. He's tall, he's athletic, he's strong and he's fast. How fast? Well have a look at this video, start it at 1min13secs. It's the moment before we scored when Leicester could have scored, but for a fine save by Tbo, from a Leicester breakaway. Unfortunately you don't see the beginning of the move in this video, but it started on the edge of their own area, from one of our corners, Slimani nicks the ball off Kante, gives the ball to Mahrez and then we're bang in trouble. Rudiger and Luiz start to sprint back, behind the play. They're level with each other when they start and Luiz is no slouch. Watch Rudiger sprint. He ends up miles ahead of Luiz and almost catches up with the play. Luiz in fact runs out of puff and slows down, whereas Rudiger runs back to protect our goal, taking up a great position, meaning if the ball had gone past Tbo, Rudiger may well have cleared it off the line. I was staggered by how fast he ran back, and by his determination to do so. Anyway have a watch ..

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 f**k me he can't half move, he is quicker than their attackers. 

 
I'm the only, who think that Rudiger doesn't owe to play on right side in the 3 defenders ?

 
DonAntonio said:
 f**k me he can't half move, he is quicker than their attackers. 
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Yup, he runs the full length of the field and actually gets quicker as he goes along, leaving Luiz in his wake, who was the same distance behind the play as Rudiger when they started running.

If I had been a drug official watching the game I know who I would have tested, put it that way.

 
Backbiter said:
My son pointed out the other day that Rudiger is the same age as Josh McEachran.
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What a wasted talent Josh McEachran was, a guy that clearly had immense potential when he was 16/17/18, always stood out in one of the best youth academies in the world, Chelsea. 

That's the issue with British players, I'm not sure if it's a culture thing or what but they always tend to ruin their potential with stupid PR moments. How many Jack Wilshere's have we had over the years? 

 
Have to say I disagree with the sentiments around his passing. I was very impressed with his long passing against Burnley from the right side centre back spot.

The challenge of playing on the left as a right footer is that your body postion doesn't help you make first time long passes. It also means you can't put in Azpi like crosses.

In my view this is why we need our next centre back purchase to be a left footer if we are to continue as a back three. If I'm honest we could do withsome more left footers in the team full stop.

 
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Spiller86 said:
Have to say I disagree with the sentiments around his passing. I was very impressed with his long passing against Burnley from the right side centre back spot.
The challenge of playing on the left as a right footer is that your body postion doesn't help you make first time long passes. It also means you can't put in Azpi like crosses.
In my view this is why we need our next centre back purchase to be a left footer if we are to continue as a back three. If I'm honest we could do withsome more left footers in the team full stop.
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I totally agree I don't see where is passing his limited
 
Brutos said:
Spiller86 said:
Have to say I disagree with the sentiments around his passing. I was very impressed with his long passing against Burnley from the right side centre back spot.
The challenge of playing on the left as a right footer is that your body postion doesn't help you make first time long passes. It also means you can't put in Azpi like crosses.
In my view this is why we need our next centre back purchase to be a left footer if we are to continue as a back three. If I'm honest we could do withsome more left footers in the team full stop.
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I totally agree I don't see where is passing his limited
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One of the reasons we bought him was ball playing ability 

 
Spiller86 said:
Have to say I disagree with the sentiments around his passing. I was very impressed with his long passing against Burnley from the right side centre back spot.

The challenge of playing on the left as a right footer is that your body postion doesn't help you make first time long passes. It also means you can't put in Azpi like crosses.

In my view this is why we need our next centre back purchase to be a left footer if we are to continue as a back three. If I'm honest we could do withsome more left footers in the team full stop.
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I agree. I still dont know his defensive ability but his passing is top class. He srems to be two footed too (initially thought he was left footed). All our CBs except Cahill seem comfortable with either foot  :smile:

 
Love him already. He gives that assurance at the back that unfortunately Cahill doesn’t. 

 
He just looks imposing look's like a defender silky smooth lightening quick good on the ball strong and composed.

 
thought he had a very good game today. i think the whole defence had issues in 2nd half, but in the first half i thought he kept richarlison relatively quiet and was fast enough to deal with him. 

 
Fantastic performance today. Wish Conte would play him more often over Cahill but you just know Cahill will be back against Roma. I guess I can't complain much about having more options but I'd love to see Rudiger feature more often in the league for us.

 
His pace is a huge plus, he can keep up with running attackers one on one whereas Cahill would be beaten almost every time.

 
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