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Reece James

Could be under instruction but he's not been putting in any deliveries from the RWB position in the last couple of games. 

With Werner often lurking on the left side you'd think deliveries from the right hand side would be encouraged? 

 
dkw said:
Twitter have just said that people using monkeys and bananas etc on tweets doesn't breech their policy and wont be stopped.....I mean f**king hell...
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Not surprised, lack of common sense seems to be high on Twitter. I read a few weeks ago that they were being sued because they didn't ban a child pornography account. Their excuse was that the account didn't violate their policies 😐

 
ForeverCarefree said:
Could be under instruction but he's not been putting in any deliveries from the RWB position in the last couple of games. 

With Werner often lurking on the left side you'd think deliveries from the right hand side would be encouraged? 
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Yeah I noticed that too, especially in comparison to the more desperate days of the Lampard era when it appeared that James was more or less our only outlet.

Considering James' drives towards the middle against Sheffield United, in addition to Hudson-Odoi's selection in the first two games - maybe Tuchel wants something else from his right wing-back?

Can we recall Victor Moses? The genre-defining Victor Moses? The best right wing-back in the history of the Premier League?

 
Scott Harris said:
Not surprised, lack of common sense seems to be high on Twitter. I read a few weeks ago that they were being sued because they didn't ban a child pornography account. Their excuse was that the account didn't violate their policies 😐
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Disgusting.

 
Reece has obviously got ability but I think he is a very incomplete footballer.

Some people on here say he's got pace but if so I've never seen him use it. He rarely if ever tries to go beyond the opposition full back and he is often a long way from the guy on the ball when he is playing defence. In comparison CHO is quick and is mostly looking to beat at least one player on his way through.

As a fullback instead of wing back his positional play seems very average to me and I often see goals coming through his space.

He seems very level headed and when he has the ball rarely loses it. He crosses well, can shoot and has brilliant first touch.

In my humble and probably wrong opinion a team with a back 3 needs one wing back who is an out an out speedy attacker. Some one that provides drive and creativity to make things happen. Moses did that pretty well in his one season in the role and in my opinion CHO can do that only much better than Moses. James can't. On the other side Alonso may not have half the talent that James has and is probably even slower but he does score the goals and is quite good in the air.

Could James play Azpi's role in a back three? I reckon he probably could and might give us more ball playing ability out of the back three.

anyhow that's what I see and I can also see its contrary to what most guys on this forum see.

 
ozboy said:
Reece has obviously got ability but I think he is a very incomplete footballer.

Some people on here say he's got pace but if so I've never seen him use it. He rarely if ever tries to go beyond the opposition full back and he is often a long way from the guy on the ball when he is playing defence. In comparison CHO is quick and is mostly looking to beat at least one player on his way through.

As a fullback instead of wing back his positional play seems very average to me and I often see goals coming through his space.

He seems very level headed and when he has the ball rarely loses it. He crosses well, can shoot and has brilliant first touch.

In my humble and probably wrong opinion a team with a back 3 needs one wing back who is an out an out speedy attacker. Some one that provides drive and creativity to make things happen. Moses did that pretty well in his one season in the role and in my opinion CHO can do that only much better than Moses. James can't. On the other side Alonso may not have half the talent that James has and is probably even slower but he does score the goals and is quite good in the air.

Could James play Azpi's role in a back three? I reckon he probably could and might give us more ball playing ability out of the back three.

anyhow that's what I see and I can also see its contrary to what most guys on this forum see.
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Interesting points above, I also think CHO looks better than James as a wing back, all be it on a few occasions under TT.

I'm not convinced by James defensively, he is not easily pushed off the ball yet he is often found out of position by the opponents down our right. When this happens he often lunges in and concedes a card and free kick in a dangerous position.

He does put in a lot of dangerous looking crosses yet not many come to anything. I think many of these crosses do not contain sufficient pace.

His shooting is very one-footed and that is on his right which means he gets few opportunities when playing on the right. 

Not sure if he could play as one of three CBs, he would need a lot of coaching towards this aim for me.

 
When James plays with Azpi, Azpi s outlet ball is to James tight to the right touchline, with a defender up his arse, the default ball is back to Azpi, this is the one part of his game that lets him down , just awareness and positional play, or just sloppy from Azpi?

 
I've had a pop at him, but its just an observation, i really  want him to exceed as he's fabulous going fwd, and will get better, he could morph into a Kante .2, he's usurped TAA out of the England set up....

 
Ballack & Blu said:
When James plays with Azpi, Azpi s outlet ball is to James tight to the right touchline, with a defender up his arse, the default ball is back to Azpi, this is the one part of his game that lets him down , just awareness and positional play, or just sloppy from Azpi?
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I think that's a bit harsh, he doesn't always knock it back to Azpi... I think the aim in that situation is to then play it square to Kante/Kova/Jorginho who can then surge forward into empty space in the midfield. He only pops it back to Azpi when that ball isn't on.

There's real method to the way we pass the ball around now, probing for an opening and I like that James is mature enough to buy into that philosophy. I'm sure he (and we) would rather see him gunning it down the wing and delivering pinpoint crosses but that clearly isn't TT's gameplan at the moment and in light of recent results I don't think I can complain!

 
Shweaves said:
I think that's a bit harsh, he doesn't always knock it back to Azpi... I think the aim in that situation is to then play it square to Kante/Kova/Jorginho who can then surge forward into empty space in the midfield. He only pops it back to Azpi when that ball isn't on.

There's real method to the way we pass the ball around now, probing for an opening and I like that James is mature enough to buy into that philosophy. I'm sure he (and we) would rather see him gunning it down the wing and delivering pinpoint crosses but that clearly isn't TT's gameplan at the moment and in light of recent results I don't think I can complain!
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I love to complain, cos i always want us to look brilliant all over the pitch, i think my exact observation was mentioned in the match chat, i've noticed its in every game where he gets to tight to the touchline, facing goal, and he has no where to go but backwards....

 
Looks like he's played himself into favour with Tuchel. 

CHO isn't really getting minutes in that wing back position now and James has put in some pretty solid performances and looks to be continuing to improve the defensive side of his game. 

 
Does anyone else think his ego has got the better of him? I've been less than impressed with him on a number of occasions this season.

He Looks Complacent when he passes the ball, gets beaten far too easily, and his general attitude at times gives the impression that its all below him.

Needs to get his act together as he was f**king Shocking yesterday

 
just said:
Fantastic game yesterday. He is such a natural physical athlete. Could not believe it when Tuchel subbed him and Mount our two best players on the night.
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Didn't mind Mount going off because Kante gives you a lot of protection, especially late in a game. 

Thought James being subbed off was a strange one just because it meant Dave, who isn't as mobile as he used to be, had to take over at right wing-back. Like you said, James was really good last night. The Porto players struggled with physical he was. 

 
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Fantastic game yesterday. He is such a natural physical athlete. Could not believe it when Tuchel subbed him and Mount our two best players on the night.
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He looked like a seasoned veteran out there. Porto were pressing all game and made things very difficult but he was outstanding and he didn't seem fazed at all. Stood his ground and dealt with whatever came his way. I was well impressed.

 
I don't think he was all that great last night to be honest. Defensively he was fine, he won the physical battle every time, but going forward, I thought he was pretty bad. He couldn't beat his man or put in a single decent cross all night. His lack of pace was an issue too.

 
Thought he had one of his worst games for us last night. The way he watched the ball for Porto’s goal, he also got caught out by Porto a couple of times. He need to step it up another level, if he plays like this against Neymar and Mbappe we are in trouble.

 
He's not a wingback. I can understand Tuchel playing safe at the minute but if this is our system going forward he needs to be utilized at RCB from next season onwards.

 
Scott Harris said:
I don't think he was all that great last night to be honest. Defensively he was fine, he won the physical battle every time, but going forward, I thought he was pretty bad. He couldn't beat his man or put in a single decent cross all night. His lack of pace was an issue too.
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He was caught in offside too many times as well. The good thing is that our young players will definitely improve after this season because we had so many big games, this experience is vital. 

 
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