AshVilla Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 One could say he was aPAUling today... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Risso said: One of the worst defensive displays you'll see, from him today. He's needs to get up to speed, and sharpish, because he looks slow and weak, with bad positioning. Unfortunately not much to disagree with here. A very bad day at the office on and off the ball. I’d say it was a welcome to the PL type of game but he already had that against Newcastle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 2 hours ago, villan95 said: He's a good footballer who plays in defence is how I see it. He’s basically a midfielder playing at CB. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 40 minutes ago, villa4europe said: He has to start hoofing when there's not a pass on... The 1st goal was so avoidable 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 41 minutes ago, AshVilla said: One could say he was aPAUling today... Hopefully you’re the only one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 2 minutes ago, Zatman said: The 1st goal was so avoidable Yep, the first goal is down to stubbornness, martinez should have hoofed it, torres should have hoofed it There was one pass on, Digne, and Nunez knew it, he took the perfect angle in closing him down, just boot it up the pitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 He simply must be quality to achieve what he has so far in his career and be consistently picked for one of the best national sides in the world. That being said he is clearly not ready and is going to take time to adjust, time that he was going to have but now doesn’t because of Mings’ injury. It’s honestly a catastrophe both in terms of him not yet being up to speed and thrown in the deep end, what that means for our defensive record, what that means for his confidence and what that means for the fans’ opinion of him. Jesus the start of this season is just a total disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 4 minutes ago, Spoony said: He simply must be quality to achieve what he has so far in his career and be consistently picked for one of the best national sides in the world. That being said he is clearly not ready and is going to take time to adjust, time that he was going to have but now doesn’t because of Mings’ injury. It’s honestly a catastrophe both in terms of him not yet being up to speed and thrown in the deep end, what that means for our defensive record, what that means for his confidence and what that means for the fans’ opinion of him. Jesus the start of this season is just a total disaster. Star-crossed so far, but not a total disaster. At least we're getting results off weaker sides. We need to hang on until January and take it from there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AV82 Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 Our play style didn't do him any favours today. That line against Salah, Diaz and Nunez with Trent pinging balls over the top was insane. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLVillan Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 The attempted dribble out would have worked against 75% of teams, but surely he was aware of how well the Dippers press and defend from the front? He's a "John Stones" type of centre back and it took Stones 12-18 months to finally start to prove his worth at Citeh (despite coming from another premier league club). I remember Unai stating that it was going to take them some time to get Pau ready for the premier league. The Mings injury has put that plan in the dustbin. Mings and Carlos are both physical players, with Konsa being somewhere in-between. When Carlos went off injured today it was as big a hammer blow as when we lost Mings at Newcastle. Forced a change of shape and playing Pau in a two with Konsa was always going to be a risk. Despite what some speculated at the time, I don't believe Pau was ever brought in to compete with Mings, rather to compliment him and be used in some games in a back-four but mostly as part of a three. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 10 minutes ago, AV82 said: Our play style didn't do him any favours today. That line against Salah, Diaz and Nunez with Trent pinging balls over the top was insane. Yeah it’s an interesting choice to play a high line AND give opposition all the time they want to pick a through ball. I am sure it won’t be repeated. Emery isn’t an idiot. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepDish Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 3 hours ago, juanpablosaliceband said: Worrying how slow and clumsy he looks defensively. We were told we were getting a Man City standard, Spain international, Champions League level defender who will elevate us to another level. He looks a million miles off it at the moment. He looks more like a more skilful Carlos Cuellar. Playing against top teams is supposed to be his level. I really worry about his pace. Settling in is not going to make him any faster. You really don't get a Man City standard player when you only pay +30 something million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MellbergsBeard Posted September 3, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted September 3, 2023 Pau is perfect for the games when we are in control and playing our game, for me this would have been a game Mings would have played and Pau would have been on the bench. we are 4 premier league games into his career, he has moved country and been thrown into a defence due to injuries. Let’s be realistic. 8 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 His passing at times today was atrocious. Ypu cant take **** risks like he did today against the quality up top liverpool have. He will have to learn this quickly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepDish Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 3 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: His passing at times today was atrocious. Ypu cant take **** risks like he did today against the quality up top liverpool have. He will have to learn this quickly The good ting is that it is actually quite easy to learn to not take risk. I would say that Mings learned this the hard way after some crazy risk taking which ended with goal agains us a couple of years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 I’m not sold on him but he’s 4 games into a new country and league, I’ll wait til 15+ games in before I start getting properly concerned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwi1890 Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 A reminder for that plenty were not sold on Moreno initially, it will take time for Pau to adapt the injuries and constant disruptions to the back line isn’t helping. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Made In Aston Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 1 hour ago, AshVilla said: One could say he was aPAUling today... You have been waiting to write this for a while haven't you?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Spoony said: He simply must be quality to achieve what he has so far in his career and be consistently picked for one of the best national sides in the world. That being said he is clearly not ready and is going to take time to adjust, time that he was going to have but now doesn’t because of Mings’ injury. It’s honestly a catastrophe both in terms of him not yet being up to speed and thrown in the deep end, what that means for our defensive record, what that means for his confidence and what that means for the fans’ opinion of him. Jesus the start of this season is just a total disaster. 10th after 4 games and through to the group stages of our first European competition for 13 years isn’t really my idea of disaster. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enda Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 He’ll be a contender for our player of the season eventually. He was muck today though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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