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Josh Acheampong

If he was at Brighton i'm sure the owners would have put a £45m bid in for him by now. I don't see what Huijsen offered last season that Acheampong can't offer this season.
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Great comparison this 👏

 
He has good ball control and is good at running with the ball.

His passing needs work though. Most of his passes were very basic, rarely any attempts to break the lines and still made 2 sloppy passes giving it away in a dangerous area (the first one lead to the situation that gave palace the free kick that Eze scored the disallowed goal from).

Apart from that he did quite well. He was obviosuly outmatched physically by Mateta but apart from one situation he held his own regardless.

 
Really hoping he can just improve quickly alongside Tosin and share the minutes with him.

There are reports we have made a bid for Bastoni. Not sure if those stories carry any weight.

 
I was really impressed with him yesterday. I thought he gave a great account of himself against a good palace attack. My highlight was definitely where he smashed into a perfect slide tackle, bounced straight up got to the loose ball first and won the free-kick, beautiful!

He had a few moments as you’d expect with any young player, the loose pass leading the the free-kick leading to the disallowed goal but there was a lot that went wrong after that pass that ended up with the ball in the back of the net.

I think the club are well within their rights to tell Maresca to work with the players that he has at his disposal, it wasn’t the defence that was the problem yesterday anyway, it was the 85 minutes between shots on targets!

 
Did well over all for me too. A couple of "Harry McGuire" passes that he definitely needs to cut out but luckily neither one cost us.

Highlight for me wasn't the slide tackle. In the second half he got a bit too close to Mateta out on the right hand side and Mateta just turned in and bounced him. But Josh had the reactions to keep his feet, regain his balance and the recovery pace to get back at him.

 
Good performance against Liverpool. Think his injury is because of the intensity of the game and he doesn't play regularly so I hope it's not something serious.

I'd like to see him much more honestly, I believe he has a talent and quality as CB.

Give him Fofana's minutes.

 
Good performance against Liverpool. Think his injury is because of the intensity of the game and he doesn't play regularly so I hope it's not something serious.

I'd like to see him much more honestly, I believe he has a talent and quality as CB.

Give him Fofana's minutes.
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Apparently it was cramp.

 
Seems crazy it has taken this long for him to get any meaningful game time given so many of our other centre half options are either extras in MASH or have all the defensive capability of the French army. There is clearly a lot of talent and potential in the lad.

 
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Deserves praise for yesterday's performance after his so-so cameo against Brighton. He now needs to be playing regular, fingers crossed Maresca will now trust him and give him extra minutes. If not it has to be a loan for him in January.

 
I don't see Maresca giving him regular minutes. Tosin, Fofana and Chalobah are ahead of him for the right side defender spot.

 
I see the importance of Tosin against route one sides but we move the ball loads quicker without a sweeper.

 
I see the importance of Tosin against route one sides but we move the ball loads quicker without a sweeper.
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Ironic maresca did not when we faced sesko.

 
but we move the ball loads quicker without a sweeper.
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Maresca specifically doesn't want that though, hence his rant about "CCB" earlier.

The stuff Acheampong is good at - moving the ball quickly into midfield, dribbling to break the lines, short passing, actual defending - doesn't outweigh the tactical things that Maresca actually wants.

 
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Deserves praise for yesterday's performance after his so-so cameo against Brighton. He now needs to be playing regular, fingers crossed Maresca will now trust him and give him extra minutes. If not it has to be a loan for him in January.
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Really don't want to see him loaned out - this lad has to play more minutes for us.

Great to have a ball playing defender. He looks very assured - bit like Rio Ferdinand & John Stones. Sure, he has mistakes in his game which you would expect from a 19 year old but I think and hope he could be one of our CB's for years to come.

 
Really don't want to see him loaned out - this lad has to play more minutes for us.

Great to have a ball playing defender. He looks very assured - bit like Rio Ferdinand & John Stones. Sure, he has mistakes in his game which you would expect from a 19 year old but I think and hope he could be one of our CB's for years to come.
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A young Ferdinand is how I see him too. Rio used drop loads of ricks for Spam and Leeds but his quality shone through. Really important he now plays often.

 
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