Lewis Hall

[McDog]

Just now, Erikse said:

 

Still looking for a right wing. Gordon? Big Joe? Barnes? Hall? Schär maybe??

 

 

 

 

 

Gordon for me.

[madras]

5 hours ago, Conjo said:

Another player doing well. Quick! Lets find out where we can play him out of position!  

He played all over for Chelsea and we saw he wasn't a LB by inclination when he first came.

 

The game is full of players who can be equally as effective in more than one position or who moved positions during their career, especially when young.

[madras]

8 hours ago, The College Dropout said:

Surprised there haven’t been more shouts to play him in midfield.  

There hasn't been a real need. We did start him there a couple of times.

[Ronaldo]

He’s been very good overall this season bar the odd poor decision in our half which you often do get away with now. I think he’s the heir to Trippier albeit on the left, very much a WB.

[Holloway]

If you play him in midfield you're weakening the defence with our choice of left backs 

[The College Dropout]

10 hours ago, Conjo said:

Another player doing well. Quick! Lets find out where we can play him out of position!  

Hall was a CM more than a LB at Chelsea through the ranks btw.  
 

He has the right ball control for it too.  
 

it’s the lack of size /athleticism / aggression that he doesn’t have for CM. 

[arnonel]

Football has become a more fluid. He can be a lb in defense AND a midfielder in attack. There are also 100 layers of nuance in between. 

[The College Dropout]

50 minutes ago, arnonel said:

Football has become a more fluid. He can be a lb in defense AND a midfielder in attack. There are also 100 layers of nuance in between. 

Aye but there is a world of difference between a LB who inverts and an actual CM.

 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Doesn't seem any doubt that he'll become a permanent LB to me. He'll come inside to make an extra midfielder at times because he's so comfortable on the ball. 

[Joelinton7]

 

[Ikon]

Well deserved. Sky is the limit. 

[Geogaddi]

I was waxing lyrical about him at the back end of last season but then at the start of this season thought he was really struggling , has been class recently though and think he's a future England international.

[PauloGeordio]

Deserved, well done Lewis 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Smal]

 

7th most progressive passer (and most progressive full back outright) p/90 in the league so far. He is really starting to fill the gap Trippier's left in terms of our ball progression. 

 

That Schar and Hall are that far up there is really, really remarkable given our poor possession numbers. 

[TRC]

5 minutes ago, Smal said:

 

7th most progressive passer (and most progressive full back outright) p/90 in the league so far. He is really starting to fill the gap Trippier's left in terms of our ball progression. 

 

That Schar and Hall are that far up there is really, really remarkable given our poor possession numbers. 

Feels odd Trent isn't on that list.

[Smal]

7 minutes ago, TRC said:

Feels odd Trent isn't on that list.

bit of a change of style for them this season, isn't it. More boring and less direct.

 

Most of their progression is going through their CBs in Van Dijk and Konate - as seems to be the case with all of the dull control teams. 

 

Trent is still providing the most xT for them though. They should probably use him more often.

 

 

Edited November 1, 2024 by Smal

[The Butcher]

18 minutes ago, Smal said:

 

7th most progressive passer (and most progressive full back outright) p/90 in the league so far. He is really starting to fill the gap Trippier's left in terms of our ball progression. 

 

That Schar and Hall are that far up there is really, really remarkable given our poor possession numbers. 

Game's gone.

[Smal]

one of the beauties of football and data is that you can just ignore it if you are not interested in it  

[magorific]

4 hours ago, The College Dropout said:

Hall was a CM more than a LB at Chelsea through the ranks btw.  
 

He has the right ball control for it too.  
 

it’s the lack of size /athleticism / aggression that he doesn’t have for CM. 

Played 18 out of 69 games at CM for Chelsea at age group level in his last three years there 

[madras]

9 minutes ago, magorific said:

Played 18 out of 69 games at CM for Chelsea at age group level in his last three years there 

Also played CB,LW,LCM,LB. Both he and Howe said he spent last season learning how to play LB, He's a very good technician more than a positionist (yes I've probably just made that word up but it works) and he's young. Didn't Bale start out playing LB so he could see the game better  but wasn't actually a LB ?

[andycap]

Still think his poor form was down to fitness issues now he's more upto speed he's a beast. 

[Conjo]

Steven Taylor used to be a striker and Andy Carroll was a winger at youth level. Struggle to see it as a very good point why we should try to shoehorn Hall into a position he hasn't played at a senior level, that he hasn't played in for at least 3 years. Lets just play players in the positions they are trained in and most comfortable playing in?

[The College Dropout]

Fullback is very much a learnt position. Most are failed CBs, CMs and Wingers.  
 

The season before we signed him, he played most of his first team games at LM. And played the most amount of games at CM/DM overall. This idea that he can only be a left back is too early in his development to confirm imo. 
 

I Don’t think Hall has the football IQ of Reece James which might be the difference. But I think he has a similar level of overall footballing ability (touch, dribble). And Transfermakt doesn’t seem to have the games. But I remember James playing in midfield for Chelsea under Tuchel a number of times (perhaps after starting at CB/RB/RWB) and looking seamless. But James is a very clever player and he played a lot at CM in the Championship too.

 

Think James would be a great sitter for England actually. Less work on the knees than RB. 

[Sufi]

Lewis Fucking Hall. What a performance.

[Guybrush]

Kept Saka quiet the whole game. Superb.