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He was hung out to dry by Garnacho. I felt sorry for the lad. I also felt a bit for Garnacho. His confidence is absolutely shot.

Match of the Day had a decent analysis of Garnacho’s defending. His lack of effort getting back to defend when he lost possession worries me more than his form though. It keeps happening and it keeps leading to goals.
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He was called out by Man Utd fans on a regular basis for the same deficiencies.

All too often our SDs only look at the small sample size of what these players do on the ball, and completely disregard the huge amount of empirical data of what they fail to do off the ball. Garnacho, Neto and Gittens are like peas in a pod.

However Hato still looks miles out of his depth positionally as a defender regardless of the non existent assistance coming from in front of him.

 
Badiashille to the side of him, Garnacho in front. He was set up to fail from the start, was very impressive in his previous 2 appearances so will look at this performance as the outlier not the norm.

 
Disagree. Hato is a good player. But he’s not a centre midfielder or a centre back. If our managers would just play him at LB in a run of games we’d see the difference

 
Badiashille to the side of him, Garnacho in front. He was set up to fail from the start, was very impressive in his previous 2 appearances so will look at this performance as the outlier not the norm.
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Nailed it. He was on a hiding to nothing with Badiashile and Garnacho for support. Or lack of.

 
We're all seeing what Cucarella had to contend with when he first arrived. Every situation he's slightly out of position because of the role asked of him. each time he has at least 2 choices of what to do in any defensive action. Without support he has to make a split second decision, make the wrong one or fret over it too long, you're slagged off as not good enough, a joke ( as Cucu suffered to extremes ). Make the right one and everyone calls you a defensive god. This is why nearly every team struggles to break down a low block, because the teams that play it well are well drilled and know their roles perfectly. This is why our wingers are usually facing 2 or more defenders every time we attack. As a team when we counter attack, hardly anyone can live with us, because the defence is not back into it's well rehearsed formation.

In every team you can only afford one "luxury" player. If you lose the ball all the others have to bust a gut, to get back into their defensie positions. We have too many who think of themselves as THE luxury player.

 
Perfect example of what a run of games does to boost a player's confidence and form. He has come along way. Held his own against Saka. Apart from being skinned by Bailey for the first goal, he recovered really well and was really solid. Is improving his overall attacking play too.

 
Still has some ways to go defensively but what I will say is his awareness of what is happening behind him is already extremely good. That alone is worth having considering how poor our other fullbacks are in this regard with crosses to back post, etc.

 
I really like him.

I actually wasn’t even counting down the days until Cucu returned which says it all for me.

 
He had good games against both Arsenal and Villa. There is a player in there.

Really what we have in him and Cucu, like with Reece and Gusto, is what any top team should have.

A talent player with a number of high level games under his belt as first choice and a talented, young understudy to learn off him and fill in when the main player is out/rested.

That's what we need in most positions, and is missing visibly at center back

 
That's what we need in most positions, and is missing visibly at center back
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CB?

Fofana, Chalobah, Colwill are very good.

Acheampong is fantastic talent.

 
CB?

Fofana, Chalobah, Colwill are very good.

Acheampong is fantastic talent.
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Colwill the only one good aerially. Sarr could become just as good if not better, but still far from it.

If Fofana is very good, then so is Enzo Fernandez.

 
Colwill the only one good aerially. Sarr could become just as good if not better, but still far from it.

If Fofana is very good, then so is Enzo Fernandez.
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And he's hardly top drawer aerially.

 
CB?

Fofana, Chalobah, Colwill are very good.

Acheampong is fantastic talent.
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Even if we all agree they are very good, then none of them is world class. James is. Need at least one in that position to lead and teach.

 
Even if we all agree they are very good, then none of them is world class. James is. Need at least one in that position to lead and teach.
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We've gotten accustomed to not trying to be the very best and is content with "being up there"

A world class CB and GK will immediately transform us into being title challengers

 
Colwill the only one good aerially. Sarr could become just as good if not better, but still far from it.

If Fofana is very good, then so is Enzo Fernandez.
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Even if we all agree they are very good, then none of them is world class. James is. Need at least one in that position to lead and teach.
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Fofana is very good, Enzo is also very good.

What we need in cb is tier 1 level talent cb who is in his prime, strong, fast, good on the ball. The type of signing that blue co won't do.

In the last 3 seasons, we have fans complaining about player a, b n c. We sold them, get new players yet we have been playing at similar level.

 
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