Evidently there was a reason they continued to play Young at RB, and some of Dalot's performances explain it,b I guess. I was all for giving him the game time to get experience though and thought it was a wasted opportunity when the season wound down.
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I think that in a fluent attacking team he'll be wreaking havoc. Unfortunately a lot of work has to be done on the defensive end and he should have competition at the right-back while he works on his development. It would be a mistake to write him off yet because if we get our shit together and he learns how to defend better this guy can be our first choice RB for years to come.
Yeah I don't think it's a fair comparison too because TAA is playing in his homeland, in his youth club, and is already on his third season for one of the best teams in the world in a highly favorable environment.
Dalot, on the other hand, just played his first season in this shambles after moving to another country.
TAA is better right now, but despite having the same age the challenges they had to face make them different from one another.
I agree with this. His future might be on the wing. Doesn't look like a defender to me (yet).
I can't remember him making too many mistakes or too many goals coming down his side. He's also a big lad which helps when defending.
Hi biggest problem when defending is he doesn't move his legs. He stands people up side on, but doesn't jockey back/sideways to keep his momentum.
He also has a bit of a habit of following the ball when the winger passes it off, instead of tracking his run first. He will spin around to look where the pass has gone, then starts to follow the run - by then he's lost a yard by spinning and ends up stretching when trying to tackle.
He's definitely not slow but he just needs to learn his positioning and timing better.
He also has a bit of a habit of following the ball when the winger passes it off, instead of tracking his run first. He will spin around to look where the pass has gone, then starts to follow the run - by then he's lost a yard by spinning and ends up stretching when trying to tackle.
He's definitely not slow but he just needs to learn his positioning and timing better.
Is it me or does it look like he's carrying a bit too much weight?
I’m not overly impressed with him so far. I mean he seems decent and likeable enough but I wouldn’t be banking on him becoming world class at this point.
It’s understandable why Dalot hasn’t been very impressive & consistent. Before he came here, he only had 7 first team appearances with 2 of them came as a sub. Making a straight jump to United’s first team with so less experienced isn’t easy. We can see clearly that he made many errors defensively & going forward is inconsistent due to lack of experience & still adapting new culture.
It’s up to us to teach & develop him into world class modern right back. With city is interested signing right back & compete with us in AWB, I think we will lose the race and will be forced to use Dalot.
It might be a big gamble, but after his first season experiences in professional football in England, I think he will only get better. I expect improvement from him next season.
It’s up to us to teach & develop him into world class modern right back. With city is interested signing right back & compete with us in AWB, I think we will lose the race and will be forced to use Dalot.
It might be a big gamble, but after his first season experiences in professional football in England, I think he will only get better. I expect improvement from him next season.
These are Dalot's starts. Can anyone tell me which games he struggled against pacey wingers or looked poor defensively?
A- Young Boys Sep 19, 2018 UCL W 0-3
H - Derby Sep 25, 2018 CC L (7) 2-(8) 2
H - Arsenal Dec 5, 2018 Prem D 2-2
H - Fulham Dec 8, 2018 Prem W 4-1
A - Liverpool Dec 16, 2018 Prem L 3-1
H - Reading Jan 5, 2019 FAC W 2-0
H - Brighton Jan 19, 2019 Prem W 2-1
A - Fulham Feb 9, 2019 Prem W 0-3
A - C Palace Feb 27, 2019 Prem W 1-3
A - Arsenal Mar 10, 2019 Prem L 2-0
A - Wolves Mar 16, 2019 FAC L 2-1
A - Wolves Apr 2, 2019 Prem L 2-1
H - Barcelona Apr 10, 2019 UCL L 0-1
H - West Ham Apr 13, 2019 Prem W 2-1
A - Everton Apr 21, 2019 Prem L 4-0
H - Cardiff May 12, 2019 Prem L 0-2
Make him our new RW 
He cannot defend
He cannot defendAs the summer progress and United, hopefully, sign a few more players I think Dalot will go under the radar.
I agree with the comments about his positioning, he can lose track of opposition players but mostly has the pace to recover in these situations. A bit of work on positioning coupled with the team playing a more attacking brand of football and he should be our first choice RB.
Wouldn't be surprised at all if the staff has at least considered this.Make him our new RW
He had 5 senior starts before coming here, and if memory serves me right, those starts were at left back.
He wasn't amazing for us this season, but he was alright. And when factoring in his massive lack of experience, I'd say he was pretty decent. Defensively he has a long way to go. His dribbling is fairly impressive and his crossing was erratic but promising.
I think people just love to use superlatives. If someone wasn't amazing, they were useless. But in reality, it's almost always somewhere in between.
He absolutely deserves another run at it next season.
He wasn't amazing for us this season, but he was alright. And when factoring in his massive lack of experience, I'd say he was pretty decent. Defensively he has a long way to go. His dribbling is fairly impressive and his crossing was erratic but promising.
I think people just love to use superlatives. If someone wasn't amazing, they were useless. But in reality, it's almost always somewhere in between.
He absolutely deserves another run at it next season.
Still think we would've been better off playing him in the game time we wasted on Ashley Young
I'm not getting dragged into an argument criticising a young player just because you overrate him. I think he will be very good but his defending needs more work.
I've said it before, on the evidence of what we've seen so far he's more suited to right wing back than right back. Positional wise he's been poor when played at full back, hence he's often caught out of position which in turns highlights his lack of pace. Going forward, he seems more comfortable although without ever looking spectacular. He's still young and adapting to the PL, but this league still favours pacey wingers and I think even when he settles more he will always be exposed at right back by them.I'm not sure what style Ole wants to implement, but unless it involves wing backs it's hard to see where he will feature as regular starter going forward.
The argument that Dalot is poor defensively is a complete and utter myth and you know it.
You can't just call something a myth because you don't like it. Dalot has struggled defensively a lot of the time. For someone who looks quite quick he still seems to get skinned quite a bit. It's a bit odd, he seems to get a bit too square on with wingers and then gets easily beaten making it look like he has poor acceleration when I don't think he does. I think perhaps he needs some coaching on how to angle his body when dealing with wingers running at him. I'm certain I'm not the only one who has seen this in his game so perhaps look a bit closer before droning on about myths.
Overall I like him though. Great attitude, confident, strong, pacey and with a nice right foot. All the raw materials are in place to be very good with a bit more work on his defending. I don't think we need to sign Wan-Bissaka with Dalot and Laird already at the club.
Fair enough but if you say he has struggled to deal with pacey wingers and then can't even name one well your argument is not very strong.
Dalot has struggled defensively a lot of the time. For someone who looks quite quick he still seems to get skinned quite a bit. It's a bit odd, he seems to get a bit too square on with wingers and then gets easily beaten making it look like he has poor acceleration when I don't think he does. I think perhaps he needs some coaching on how to angle his body when dealing with wingers running at him. I'm certain I'm not the only one who has seen this in his game so perhaps look a bit closer before droning on about myths.
Overall I like him though. Great attitude, confident, strong, pacey and with a nice right foot. All the raw materials are in place to be very good with a bit more work on his defending. I don't think we need to sign Wan-Bissaka with Dalot and Laird already at the club.
You got more of a response than you deserved considering I'm in work and your asking me to go back over games to pick out opposition wingers many of which I couldn't pick out of a lineup.
Maybe look at the strength of your own argument first. Is "It's a myth and you know it" even worthy of being called an argument???? I'd have MAYBE said something like that when I was 12 and been embarrassed afterwards.
I think if you put him in that City team he starts putting up Robertson/TAA levels of assists
If you say he doesn't then you could pick out names of pacey wingers who he had in his pocket at United too....
Last game v Cardiff
Where I've seen him get skinned its because he lets his man get a run at him, by the time he reacts they're already at full speed. Easily fixable and probably a result of being young and wanting to sit a little deeper and safer. He needs to get tighter and stop them turning to face him.
Dalot has struggled defensively a lot of the time. For someone who looks quite quick he still seems to get skinned quite a bit. It's a bit odd, he seems to get a bit too square on with wingers and then gets easily beaten making it look like he has poor acceleration when I don't think he does. I think perhaps he needs some coaching on how to angle his body when dealing with wingers running at him. I'm certain I'm not the only one who has seen this in his game so perhaps look a bit closer before droning on about myths.
Overall I like him though. Great attitude, confident, strong, pacey and with a nice right foot. All the raw materials are in place to be very good with a bit more work on his defending. I don't think we need to sign Wan-Bissaka with Dalot and Laird already at the club.
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Possibly. He seems quick enough and is very young so a bit of coaching should sort it out.
Does he play at full back for the NT?
I agree. Annoying that quite a few have simply given up on him as a RB and think he should be converted to a winger. There's plenty of time for him to develop that side of the game, but I think the cases of AWB and TAA have made some impatient. I remember Cancelo getting similar criticism and now he's playing for Juve of all teams.
Wan Bissaka did nothing of note in his first PL season and TAA took arguably 2 seasons to get up to speed. We need to be a bit more patient.
Dalot is better defensively then a 20 year old Gary Neville, just throwing it out there.
Fair comment. Gary was a sponge mind, kept getting better and better but he was no great shakes until his mid 20s really. Nothing to say Dalot can't do the same even if it would be difficult.
To me, he seems a little slow, but he's still faster than a prime Neville. His biggest issue is that he uses a defensive positioning similar to Evra, but he just doesn't have the acceleration,and especially not the agility. He can definitely improve his positioning.
TAA showed a lot of promise in his attacking game especially, and AWB was eye-catchingly brilliant against us in 17-18 which might have been his PL debut. Quite hard for a young full-back to get commonly noticed in a midtable/relegation battling club. Robertson is a good example. Dalot’s performances haven’t given much positive signs so far.
He's either stagnated or regressed in the past year. Always looked like the clear standout in this Portugal generation but not anymore.
Hopefully it's just a bad streak and he can pick it up for the rest of the World Cup.
Hopefully it's just a bad streak and he can pick it up for the rest of the World Cup.
I doubt it. Players are damaged goods the moment they walk into carrington. He is not the first player that regressed after joining us.
He's not perfect but he's 20. What do people expect? I expect him to become a really good full back for us in the near future
Dalot only made a handful of senior appearances for his club team in Portugal before moving to United, and not all of those appearances were at right full back.
Dalot has significant learning curves still ahead as a right back with respect to positioning, awareness, etc. It's nice he can create space for himself to provide support in the attacking third, but it would be really beneficial for the club if he can improve as a right back.
Dalot has significant learning curves still ahead as a right back with respect to positioning, awareness, etc. It's nice he can create space for himself to provide support in the attacking third, but it would be really beneficial for the club if he can improve as a right back.
Was he really rated that highly? Most people on this forum didn't even know who he was when he signed. I thought the likes of Trincao and Gedson Fernandes were rated more highly for instance, but those are just a few I heard really good things about I guess.
He’s picked up some horrible habits from young
He’s also lost that attacking drive that he had that included Beckham like crosses and Portuguese step overs. That must be Shaw rubbing off on him
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