Reece James

[dkw]

Ridiculous decision to play him at centre back, completely wasted his talent. 

 

[turnyitb]

Horrible mistake to fluff a pass and then backed off.

He stopped Vardy. That's about it 

Has potential to be good but needs to start winning trophies

Hardly fluffed a pass, it was intercepted with the help of an arm .

”he stopped Vardy. That’s about it” well plenty have failed in that over the years. 

he’s 21 years old I think he has a few more years to win trophies, he done all he was asked today , it’s teams that win or lose trophies. 

 

[turnyitb]

Ridiculous decision to play him at centre back, completely wasted his talent. 

Agree but more a waste he played Dave at RWB.

if he was worried about Dave against Vardy then drop Dave and even play Zouma rcb or as he did James with a more offensive rwb.

 

[jack_super_class]

Ridiculous decision to play him at centre back, completely wasted his talent. 

I agree, loads of people on Twitter think he should play RCB and i just dont get it the logic. Like you say it wastes his talent. How he played VS city is his talent, strength, speed, passing/crossing.

Forgot to add though today his corners were bloody terrible, everything over hit.

 

[nonotnowjim]

Reece lost us the game today. For a professional footballer to casually loft a pass to the Leicester player like he did for the goal is inexcusable. Say whatever we like about offside goals, ineffectual forward play, wrong selections - but the fact is that it was down to Reece that they scored when they did. The man needs to sharpen the f**k up, and stop making braindead decisions.

 

[Gol15]

Reece lost us the game today. For a professional footballer to casually loft a pass to the Leicester player like he did for the goal is inexcusable. Say whatever we like about offside goals, ineffectual forward play, wrong selections - but the fact is that it was down to Reece that they scored when they did. The man needs to sharpen the f**k up, and stop making braindead decisions.

This is the first time he played that position and in all fairness it was a great shot from distance.

 

[Backbiter]

Reece lost us the game today. For a professional footballer to casually loft a pass to the Leicester player like he did for the goal is inexcusable. Say whatever we like about offside goals, ineffectual forward play, wrong selections - but the fact is that it was down to Reece that they scored when they did. The man needs to sharpen the f**k up, and stop making braindead decisions.

He played very well. His pass was intercepted by Perez's hand.

 

[BordeauxBlue]

As with the Arsenal game, the defence was actually excellent 99.9% of the game

 They didn't have a single shot on target other than the goal, which Kape went for with the wrong hand.

Thought James was fine, but we lost his rampaging runs down the wing for sure. Azpi wasn't at it offensively. 

 

[Argo]

Played well today but wasted in that position. Be interesting to hear Tommy’s reasoning behind it.

Couldnt disagree more, infact the fact he hasn't played this hybrid RCB position is the only serious consistent gripe I've held against TT so far, it's was the position that he played in today that elevated him to star prospect and as a result our first team in the first place.

If 3atb is our long term formation then that is 100% the position he belongs.

 

[axman2526]

Couldnt disagree more, infact the fact he hasn't played this hybrid RCB position is the only serious consistent gripe I've held against TT so far, it's was the position that he played in today that elevated him to star prospect and as a result our first team in the first place.

If 3atb is our long term formation then that is 100% the position he belongs.

It is the ideal evolution of this system. It is what Chris Wilder did with much poorer players and suffered when his key backline got injured.

With our resources you have that one centerback general Silva (Egan) and the side centerbacks offering the ability to get up and down, James (Basham) and Chilwell (O'Connell), and support to break down deeper defences or to sit in more against more offensive teams. 

Silva is getting on and questions will be ask if James and Chilwell could person those roles well.

The theory is sound though. We are struggling to break sides down and, in the main, Christensen, Dave, Zouma and Ruidger are useless at providing any attacking threat bar attacking setpieces for the latter too.

So imagine it against a parked Wolves, or Brighton or whoever:

Mendy

James

Silva

Chilwell

CHO

Kovacic

Kante

Pulisic

Havertz

Abraham

Mount

Change players with whoever you feel we could get in the market but now you have here Chilwell and Pulisic combining down the left, James and CHO down the right all the while having Mount, Tammy and Kai more central and not needed out wide, while both sets of wide players have the pace and energy to get up and down.

Lots of bodies to attack and defend together.

We are failing so dramatically up front not just cause our strikers are poor at finishing, but we lack bodies getting forward to create too. Our problems offensively are that regularly picked Dave, Rudiger and Christensen offer us nothing going forward.

 

[turnyitb]

Couldnt disagree more, infact the fact he hasn't played this hybrid RCB position is the only serious consistent gripe I've held against TT so far, it's was the position that he played in today that elevated him to star prospect and as a result our first team in the first place.

If 3atb is our long term formation then that is 100% the position he belongs.

But I’m not so sure 3 at the back will or should be our long term formation. 

 

[nonotnowjim]

He played very well. His pass was intercepted by Perez's hand.

I thought he played well as well. Nullified vardy all game...
 

...but all that was undone when he passed the ball directly to the Leicester player. Inexcusable brain fart and lack of concentration that cost is the cup. 

 

[Valerie]

I thought he played well as well. Nullified vardy all game...
 

...but all that was undone when he passed the ball directly to the Leicester player. Inexcusable brain fart and lack of concentration that cost is the cup. 

Yes, he was the one that made the mistake leading to the winning goal, but let's face it, if it hadn't been James, it would have been somebody else. And the entire team were too insipid to step up and fight our way back in. This loss is on the team and on the manager together.

 

[nonotnowjim]

Yes, he was the one that made the mistake leading to the winning goal, but let's face it, if it hadn't been James, it would have been somebody else. And the entire team were too insipid to step up and fight our way back in. This loss is on the team and on the manager together.

Perhaps. Perhaps not.

I agree val that the team looked toothless, and share your concerns about trajectory and lack of action to remedy it. But we can't rewrite the game.

Without that lapse of concentration, the score is 0v0. We may or may not have let in a different goal, and we may or may not have scored the winner. But his error lost us the cup. The same as jorgis error lost us the game against arsenal. 

James, for a player wanting to play at the highest level makes some shockingly bad decisions, mostly around his offensive passing. Yesterday his passing from defence was what cost us. 

 

[Valerie]

Perhaps. Perhaps not.

I agree val that the team looked toothless, and share your concerns about trajectory and lack of action to remedy it. But we can't rewrite the game.

Without that lapse of concentration, the score is 0v0. We may or may not have let in a different goal, and we may or may not have scored the winner. But his error lost us the cup. The same as jorgis error lost us the game against arsenal. 

James, for a player wanting to play at the highest level makes some shockingly bad decisions, mostly around his offensive passing. Yesterday his passing from defence was what cost us. 

However we look at it, it's not getting any better or hopeful, is it...

 

[Argo]

Decent performance by him in the hybrid position again.

Hopefully if this is the formation going forward we sign a natural RWB (Lamptey back?) and put him there permanently. 

 

[Gol15]

Decent performance by him in the hybrid position again.

Hopefully if this is the formation going forward we sign a natural RWB (Lamptey back?) and put him there permanently. 

I hope we play a back 4 next season despite the fact that we look good defensively with this back 3 formation so basically my opinion goes against the logic here but I think as much as this helps our defenders it doesn't help our attackers, I think Werner and Havertz would be better in a different formation...

Otherwise can see if Conte would like to sell Hakimi he looks pretty good in that position but I doubt he would want to sell him.

 

[axman2526]

Defensively been excellent these past 2 games. Especially on the physical side of winning headers and winning one vs one battles.

 

[jack_super_class]

Dont see the need for him to start RCB again last night, surely Azpi, Silva and Rudiger can deal with Jamie Vardy. Vardy has only scored 2 goals in about 25 games.

 

[rtwelch]

Reece was class in midfield today