Eric Bailly 2017-18 Performances

Not cool, at all

He's being injured twice this season according to soccerway

Groin Strain 17/11/17 - now

Groin Strain 06/10/17 - 26/10/17

Annoying. We get Rojo back and he’s injured now.

So he's been available for about 3 weeks since the start of October. It's mid December and Jose has said he's seriously injured so you'd expect him to be out for a long time. That would sound like someone injury prone to me.

Mourinho says Bailly may require a surgery. Well that looks like a very long injury it's then.

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Jesus out for the season? Wasn't it just a groin injury?

Can't we just have a fully fit squad for a sustained period ffs?

Thank feck Jose bought another CB

Was the correct decision after all. Our defense is very injury-prone except Smalling.

But Tuanzebe...?

Oh god! Not one more injury..

It sounded like a regular injury with not much updates and now suddenly it's a season ending one..

As I wrote earlier this week about his injury. I expected 2 degree tear of adductor longus muscle but obviously its the 3rd degree, complete rupture it will take 3 months.

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Always seems to be the case at United.

Shite news. Started off the season really well too, and then a few injuries and now this.

Crock.

fecks sake, he's our best defender...

that came from nowhere. Very sad for the guy, ankle injuries is debilitating for football players. Ask Bale .

Get well soon Eric.

Our best defender, love how aggressive he is when closing players down and winning the ball back high up the pitch, miss seeing him play. Seems he's going to be out for a while too.

Just caught the news.

Our defender curse is alive alright. We could have like dozen of defenders and may still end up with this crisis.

When did he injure his ankle? He played 90 mins against Chelsea before International break. Since then he didn't play at all.

We are blessed and cursed when it comes to CB position. We have very good CBs but we always have CBs injured.

Our centre backs:

Bailly - Our best defender but currently out injured. Might require surgery.
Jones - Very solid but unfortunately very injury prone.
Lindelof - Still adapting to the PL and hopefully will continue improving.
Rojo - Solid and sometimes makes very rash decisions. Have been in and out of injuries lately.
Smalling - IMO, our most awkward defender. Awkward passing style and almost always seem to have a mistake or two in him.
Tuanzebe - Haven't seen him enough in PL games to have a proper judgement.

Should we satisfied with our current defensive options? Or should we sell one or two and bring in new defenders in the summer?

Miss the days of the Rio-Vidic brick wall playing week in week out.

We don't have that luxury. Seems like whoever we bought end up with injury problem as if it's requirement. Even Vida in his healthy period was in &I out with injury. Milan tie was an example. The next season, he missed semi vs Barcelona which Brown stepped up big time or we're cursing our injury curse instead of having fond memory of winning CL. In later years, Rio, Vida, Evans, Jones, Smalling were all crocks. Felt as if they're not o Ly rotating within the squad, but also the physic room.

Yeah fair points. But even so, our options of Rio, Vidic, Evra, Brown and even O'Shea, I would trust any of them to put in a shift. But for me, right now the only defenders I'm confident of is Bailly and Jones and both just can't seem to stay fully fit this season.

When are we going to take a look at our medical staff?

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Our best CB, likely to miss most of the season, bollocks.

Our remaining options are good enough mind, to see us through. Not as good as Bailly, but good enough. He just adds a level of coolness back there, without him we seem like a bunch of panicky headless chickens - not bad CB's, just lacking in composure.

Season ending injury to our best defender. Bad news

I'm gutted about this. It's not just the way he plays, it's also his mentality we'll be missing. The team needs as many hard bastards as possible on the pitch. A bloody shame if he's out for a long time..

He is anything but cool

Very disappointing to lose Bailly to injury, we have the personnel to manage without him, but gutted to see him miss so much football. Lets hope he recovers completely.

Damn, when I saw he was injury prone on football manager I thought they’d got it wrong - guess not

I hope he isn't out for too long. Would he be back in time for the start of the CL knockouts? We have some really important games around that time and if we reach the Carabao Cup final it could be a season defining period with the FA Cup 4th round in there too.

Lindelof's deal makes great amount of sense now and if eventually Bailly becomes fit again, it's gonna be hell of a defensive pair.

He's our only central defender that has necessary technical ability and confidence in term of building from the back. Unlike Lindelof, even under pressure, Bailly could hold the ball very well and deliver it anytime he wanted.

That helps a lot when the team is surrounded by opponent's consecutive sieges. Bailly can be starting point of a counter-attack, he can make an accurately pass to attacking triggers readily waiting on opponent's side instead of kicking the ball in vain.

Combining with extraordinary defensive skills, he is definitely a big miss for us