Marc Guehi

[jack j]

Should knock a good 10 million off the price tag

[rebelrouser]

One thing missing from the "we were poor on defense not offense" narrative is that we had trouble scoring against the top of the table. Take away the two blow out wins vs. Chelsea and Spurs and it looks even worse.

 

 

[SteV]

3 minutes ago, rebelrouser said:

One thing missing from the "we were poor on defense not offense" narrative is that we had trouble scoring against the top of the table. Take away the two blow out wins vs. Chelsea and Spurs and it looks even worse.

 

 

Did we?

 

2 v Man City

2 v Arsenal

3 v Liverpool

8 v Villa

 

That’s probably better than the majority of the league.

[The Prophet]

 

[Gawalls]

7 hours ago, LFEE said:

Don’t recall our defence being shocking. Do you not think the drop was us A losing Pope and B the reduction in our pressing game from our forwards and midfielders due to our injury situation and limited options to rotate?

A - yes, b - no, teams are gonna attack you at some point during a game no master how well or how good you press.  Tripps was awful last part of the season as was burn whenever he played left back, shocking is a strong word to be fair though.

[WilliamPS]

10 minutes ago, rebelrouser said:

One thing missing from the "we were poor on defense not offense" narrative is that we had trouble scoring against the top of the table. Take away the two blow out wins vs. Chelsea and Spurs and it looks even worse.

 

 

Looking back at results, excepting Man City away scored against the top 5 in all the PL games, which is incredible really

 

The issue was conceding so easily.

 

As the special one once said, to win stuff you have to defend.

[Gawalls]

Just now, WilliamPS said:

Looking back at results, excepting Man City away scored against the top 5 in all the PL games, which is incredible really

 

The issue was conceding so easily.

 

As the special one once said, to win stuff you have to defend.

I did say that yes

[Slim]

6 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

Worries 

[WilliamPS]

I look forward to the meltdown when Guehi signs and Howe starts BDB at LB all year for extra height 

[duo]

11 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

Hearts not in it - wants to leave

[janpawel]

Wait, I thought we knew he wasn't the best in the air as the stats show he's about 50/50?

 

Oh wait, forgot people get upset at people talking about it 😂

[Andy]

Why did no one on the forum mention that he was weak in the air before now? Would have saved a lot of excitement

[JLC]

3 minutes ago, duo said:

Hearts not in it - wants to leave

Don't think he'd fancy the SPL anyway

[The Prophet]

His aerial stats are very similar to Schar. Him and Botman should compliment each other well.

[SUPERTOON]

3 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

His aerial stats are very similar to Schar. Him and Botman should compliment each other well.

Him and Schar should in fairness, he’s playing with a Schar clone in Andersen week in, week out.

[Gazzaschicken]

Cancel the talks and get dummet back man

[Gawalls]

7 minutes ago, Andy said:

Why did no one on the forum mention that he was weak in the air before now? Would have saved a lot of excitement

It wouldn’t matter - people on here don’t zoom in on negatives 😉

[Terrymac1966]

One more bid then move on they will have a back up plan lots of good centre backs in Europe even the Brazil lad wanting to get out of Saudi would be an asset at 27

[maybe_next_year]

BBC still reporting Anderson to Fulham. I can't see Palace selling both CBs. Honestly wouldn't mind us going in for Anderson. 

[Alberto2005]

Just now, maybe_next_year said:

BBC still reporting Anderson to Fulham. I can't see Palace selling both CBs. Honestly wouldn't mind us going in for Anderson. 

Nah he's 28 now, prefer someone younger.

[Mazzy]

FBref isn't the be all and end all of stats by any means but it gives a good overview of a player's strengths and weaknesses. Botman and Kelly are a little less meaningful because of the fact they've played alot less minutes than the others, so they aren't that accurate particularly. 

 

What this does show is that actually Dan Burn would be the best partner for Guehi at this moment in time until Botman is fit. Guehi and Schar would be somewhat lacking in alot of areas defensively, although immense at ball progression and retention.

 

[The Prophet]

8 minutes ago, maybe_next_year said:

BBC still reporting Anderson to Fulham. I can't see Palace selling both CBs. Honestly wouldn't mind us going in for Anderson. 

 

Seems they're moving along with Carlos now.

[LFEE]

52 minutes ago, Gawalls said:

A - yes, b - no, teams are gonna attack you at some point during a game no master how well or how good you press.  Tripps was awful last part of the season as was burn whenever he played left back, shocking is a strong word to be fair though.

Such a repeated exaggeration. Trippier had a couple of bad moments as did Burn during games.

[Matt1892]

Watching Palace defend that corner is quite bizarre, do they usually zonal mark at dead balls? As it looked like they didn’t know what they were doing and were new to defending like that.

Guehi is the only one who has no momentum going in to his jump, so gets sandwiched between Richards and the Nantes goalscorer.

 

I know friendly games are a chance to practice these things in a real game but that is an attacking teams dream.

[WilliamPS]

1 hour ago, Matt1892 said:

Watching Palace defend that corner is quite bizarre, do they usually zonal mark at dead balls? As it looked like they didn’t know what they were doing and were new to defending like that.

Guehi is the only one who has no momentum going in to his jump, so gets sandwiched between Richards and the Nantes goalscorer.

 

I know friendly games are a chance to practice these things in a real game but that is an attacking teams dream.

Zonal marking is one of those tacticians dreams that never ever works in practise (sorry Rafa)