Bruno Guimarães

[Conjo]

We need to ask the club to post a video of a 100m dash to get to the bottom of this. This mystique of who is quick, slow, has pace and/or accelleration in an atheltic or mobile way and how you define each aspect of it in order to conclude where on the spectrum Bruno find himself is killing me.

[Kanj]

Recall that at one time Paul Dummett was clocked as one of the fastest players in the league at a dead sprint. 

 

https://www.teamtalk.com/news/tts-top-five-fastest-premier-league-players-last-season#:~:text=Joint 4th%3A Paul Dummett – Newcastle United&text=The Welsh full-back also,with a Premier League return.

[buzza]

40 minutes ago, Kanji said:

Recall that at one time Paul Dummett was clocked as one of the fastest players in the league at a dead sprint. 

 

https://www.teamtalk.com/news/tts-top-five-fastest-premier-league-players-last-season#:~:text=Joint 4th%3A Paul Dummett – Newcastle United&text=The Welsh full-back also,with a Premier League return.

Aye, but if you asked him to turn on the spot, the QE2 could do it faster...

[AJ9]

Somewhere, in another timeline, we are still talking about the horrendous performances of Jeff fucking Hendrick. So I think maybe we can lay off Bruno for a bit and just fucking enjoy having a quality midfielder. Honestly, you people.

 

 

Edited March 15, 2022 by AJ9

[cubaricho]

Seems a little wasted in the position Howe has him in tonight. 

[The Merse]

Best of the three tonight but didn't get alot of help - hoofball doesn't suit him

[Gallowgate Toon]

Really good first half. Much less impactful second half but still tidy.

[Thumbheed]

Personally thought he was really good tonight but I'm not sure that role is the right one to get the best out of him. 

 

 

 

 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

He was good, but I’m not convinced that particular 3 works. Willock was playing really far forward at times, and Joelinton obvious roams a far bit as well. 

[HaydnNUFC]

As naff as that performance from the team was in the 2nd half, he just oozes quality. Where he is in the midfield 3 is fine, he does need another progressive passer next to him though. A lot of our transitional passes and attempts to break the Everton lines all went through him and no player will get every single pass right. Even still, the players he's passing to aren't often going to do the business such was the lack of quality tonight. 

[Awaymag]

I would have brought on Longstaff for Willock midway 2nd half - it was clear he was struggling - thought Joelinton was as well.    We lost it in midfield today - no control in that 2nd half.

 

Oh well - get them out to Dubai, away from the media shit storm here.   Recharge the batteries and get another 5 points from 10 games and we can say goodbye to this shit season.   Hopefully never to be in the relegation zone for a very long time!

[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

Just now, ManDoon said:

Pass he played in the first half was so lush. He’s got such a nice passing range and weight of pass 

the pass that sent miggy away

[TRon]

2 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

He was good, but I’m not convinced that particular 3 works. Willock was playing really far forward at times, and Joelinton obvious roams a far bit as well. 

 

 I don't know. I really thought our main problems were the lack of quality in too many areas of the pitch. We ended up hoofing it from the back a lot, and I think Trippier's loss is starting to be felt.

[Wolfcastle]

At least as good as anybody tonight I felt.

[r0cafella]

He was good today, quality players. Definitely needs runners to benefit him mind, playing hoofball or with statues doesn’t suit him at all. 

[Thiago]

A sumptuous player. His passing is exquisite and his willingness to take the ball is a big plus. 

 

The thought of him around better players is genuinely exciting.

[PauloGeordio]

6 hours ago, ManDoon said:

Pass he played in the first half was so lush. He’s got such a nice passing range and weight of pass 

Thought he was playing snooker the way the ball spun and slowed down into the path of the Miggy 

[Smal]

He's really good. Passed the eye test and having just had a look at his numbers they're really good too. 

 

Most touches, most passes (63/67, 94%), high successful pressures (60%), most carries, most progressive carries, most tackles (100% won), most interceptions, most fouls drawn, 2nd most recoveries.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

His tackles were really good, made a class one in the box as well. 

[WillingtonMag]

Shelvey has to come back in for me so got to try Bruno Shelvey Joelinton, hopfully get to see that with both Maxi and Fraser starting against Spurs and some improvement from Wood. Think that will be our best team tbh until Wilson and Trippier get back.

[Smal]

Probably going against the grain here but I don't see reintroducing Shelvey as solving any of the issues last night. It seems a bit knee jerk to me because we've lost the 2 games he hasn't played. Bruno played his role last night and did everything Shelvey does but better. 

 

The issue was that our attacking play is heavily reliant on our full backs and our wide players. Targett was all right, but the other 3 were absolutely terrible in an attacking sense. Our full backs have the ball a lot and there we just spammed hopeful long balls down the line all game. We needed better movement from the front three. Look at how Spurs destroyed Everton - they're very vulnerable to runs in behind on the break and we basically did none of that. The two times we did Fraser almost got in but for a cracking bit of defending from Coleman (Fraser also really should've done better) and Bruno played a class through ball to Almiron who just isn't a right winger. 

[The Prophet]

Bruno played his role really well last night. It was when the ball was played to the forwards that it all fell apart.

[Papavasiliou]

Hard to judge him in an offensive context last night as he was clearly being targeted for man marking. Still managed to escape the press a fair few times though so he deserves praise for that. 

[WillingtonMag]

12 minutes ago, Smal said:

Probably going against the grain here but I don't see reintroducing Shelvey as solving any of the issues last night. It seems a bit knee jerk to me because we've lost the 2 games he hasn't played. Bruno played his role last night and did everything Shelvey does but better. 

 

The issue was that our attacking play is heavily reliant on our full backs and our wide players. Targett was all right, but the other 3 were absolutely terrible in an attacking sense. Our full backs have the ball a lot and there we just spammed hopeful long balls down the line all game. We needed better movement from the front three. Look at how Spurs destroyed Everton - they're very vulnerable to runs in behind on the break and we basically did none of that. The two times we did Fraser almost got in but for a cracking bit of defending from Coleman (Fraser also really should've done better) and Bruno played a class through ball to Almiron who just isn't a right winger. 

Don't think that was the case second half mind, don't see why Shelvey couldn't just sit a bit deeper and allow Bruno and Joe to try and move the ball forward. Willock has put in a few good performances and scored a few goals but often goes missing for me and at times is a complete passenger.

[Gallowgate Toon]

He made some great runs in the first half to break lines but did that much less in the second half. Pretty hard to do that consistently when you're also the person designated to protect the defence against a team basically waiting to counter. In retrospect, we perhaps could've switched to a double pivot in the second half to re-balance things.