I see people repeating this like it’s fact. Watch it again. He moved backwards a couple of yards when the ball is played. Bailly doesn’t know where he is because he doesn’t look. This idea it was great movement is nonsense.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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The whole defensive line has to drop because Perez has got in behind them.
the ball is then fired hard and low in the exact line the defence just moved from, but vardy moves away 1 yard.
it’s just bad timing and good movement, watch the goal back and you’ll see he moves in time with maguire. The fault lies with shaw/Fred letting Perez get into the channel between maguire and shaw in the first place.
He doesn’t even look to see where the only threat is. So much for you knowing what makes a good defender. He doesn’t need to move in line with Maguire because Maguire is blocking the cross into the 6 yard box. Bailly’s only job is to mark their striker.
Still long way to go for me. But hopefully this is the journey back for him. I prefer his style of aggressive defending to Lindelof's.
“It could have” can be applied to literally any instance of play. Football isn’t played nor does it work like this. It also shouldn’t be assessed at these ridiculous standards. There are no “perfect” performances. When people use those superlatives they’re just saying the player was great/held their post/bailed out others.I mean, he did make an error that could have been costly.
But it was early on and we got away with it and he played well other than that. Considering he's in for an injured player it was a very good performance. Not going to pretend it was perfect though
Bruno for all the plaudits he gets for his heroics, often gives the ball away, misplaces passes, fluffs chances, makes poor choices etc. His performances aren’t assess on a “could have” basis. It just feels like such a ridiculous exercise. It’s not as if the guy was beaten 2 or 3 times or something
Actually there are plenty of defensive performances without individual errors. Just not our CBs
Fernandes is in the team to take risks to open teams up, our CBs arent in the team to take risks and open us up
To me, there’s a very distinct difference between “perfect” and “defensive individual errors”. I spoke on “perfect”, which was the word you’d used.
Again, the point was to illustrate how ridiculous a standard “perfect” is. Can be applied to any player.
Either way, I’m not going to hold “could have” and/or one instance in which a player got the best of him and nothing came from it, against him
You're very petty aren't you
i'm happy with my judgement and i'm usually proved right more often than not 
Yes, a split second mistake is what loses him. You act like it's the biggest error in the history of defending, EVERY GOAL has a mistake of some sort if you analyse it enough.
Clearly this keeps you warm at night so you hang onto it.
Ah so you rate luck as a quality. I dont.
If Smalling or Jones made the mistake there would be 30 posts about it, if Lindelof made the error I would post about it. So I'm not going to not post about it when Bailly, someone I'm a bit happier with starting than Lindelof makes the mistake and gloss over it. Same standard for all, note the good and the bad and be honest
Do yourself a favour, look up the word hyperbole.You're very petty aren't you
Yes, a split second mistake is what loses him. You act like it's the biggest error in the history of defending, EVERY GOAL has a mistake of some sort if you analyse it enough.
Clearly this keeps you warm at night so you hang onto it.
Played 3 games in 6 days didn't he?
He's the fastest CB we have and he's actually a good defender. The only problem with him is his weird manuevers that he does sometimes, they mostly end up as reckless challenges resulting in a card or injuring himself.
He's the fastest CB we have and he's actually a good defender. The only problem with him is his weird manuevers that he does sometimes, they mostly end up as reckless challenges resulting in a card or injuring himself.
A defender who could actually win and direct headers, I'm thrilled with that fact alone.
Last season
He's largely been a good player in his time here barring one major disaster and a few errors that are normal for any player.
The majority of his games are obviously good otherwise the manager wouldn't rate him so highly especially with his injury record.
He's largely been a good player in his time here barring one major disaster and a few errors that are normal for any player.
He is deceptively skillful on the ball. That backheel late on was nice.
Edit: Weird, it was just posted above seconds before I posted that!
Edit: Weird, it was just posted above seconds before I posted that!
By far our best defender. His acceleration puts him as one of the best defenders in the league. A shame he has no professionalism when it comes to injury prevention
That pace, aggressiveness, and smooth passing. Bailly just looked like a world class CB on this game. Just stay fit and keep this consistent, crazy boy.
Wtf ? How would you even know about that ? Do you see how he conducts himself off the pitch ? Some players are more fragile than others, it's just how it is. Crazy assumption you just made
His was good against Wolves,my MOTM.We was instrumental in neutralizing Wolves' tactics. Probably Nuno played Adama Traore through the middle to run at our CBs thinking that it was going to be Maguire and Lindelof.
A beast of a performance from him yesterday. The issue still remains that somewhere mid January he would have either hurt himself, or would have cost us a couple of points via some avoidable error. Let's hope that does not happen this time around.
Love to love him.
Love to love him.
Our best cb when fit.
He is the perfect foil for Maguire too, makes maguire look like a proper ball playing centre back.
I have no fear about Maguire’s lack of pace when you have Bailly accelerator next to him.
Tired of seeing how good he can be in one game and injure himself in our next. He's an absolute top class CB when he gets into rhythm.
Calm down pal, I love Bailly, it just infuriates me how good he can be when he is on his game and fit, and then injure himself in our next match.
Thing is, this is not the first time hes been great. He has several performances like this in his time here, the problem is that they are usually followed by months on the treatment table or an absolute calamity of a performance that sends him back in the dog house
If he could stay fit and find some consistency he would no doubt be a top CB
Good performance. Hope he builds on this.
As well as he played last night that's actually a big weakness in Bailly's game in my opinion. In the 4+ years i've been watching him he quite often wins headers coming into the box only to balloon them straight up in the air to fall back down and then they have to be cleared a second time. Its something he needs to work on.
Indeed and sadly that is the Eric Bailly cycle.
Please stay fit.
Like clock work, if he could get over that he would be a great CB, but I have given up on hoping he remains injury free.
This not true at all. He is consistent when playing - the one player who was man of the match for many games when he had just come even when Zlatan had scored the winning goals.
Eric is a brilliant defender - he is the muscle and pace that Harry needs on his side. Victor can take a rest now - no way he can displace Eric out of the team. Am now more confident in our defence.
Dude take a rest. This guy is the best defender at the club. Go search around, even EPL strikers know - they don't want to play against Eric.
Had really high hopes for him when he came to us , good physique , pacy , strong and played some great games for us in his earlier days to show that he had potential to be a top tier CB for us for many years. But a massive amount of injuries followed by inconsistent performances on comebacks made him unreliable.
But he still has all the attributes to be the best CB at the club , IF he can stay injury free and get a consistent run he could yet resurrect his career here and go to fulfill his potential. But the worry is you are always waiting for the news that he has picked up another injury and is out for another month etc etc.
But he still has all the attributes to be the best CB at the club , IF he can stay injury free and get a consistent run he could yet resurrect his career here and go to fulfill his potential. But the worry is you are always waiting for the news that he has picked up another injury and is out for another month etc etc.
Of course he is. Being injured constantly does wondrous things for a players reputation.
Deserves a run in the team. Fingers crossed he stays clear of injuries.
Almost had a brainfart at beginning of the game when he lost possesion at the edge of our 16 yard box, but we didnt concede. Other than that he was immense. If it was up to me I'd play him every time when fit over Lindelof. Bailly is better at everything except long passes and is perfect partner to Maguire. Hope he stays fit and doesnt have any brainfart aka Jones moments in the future.
Both him and Tuanzebe have tremendous recovery pace.
Majestic again. We, like Eric, should just take it one game at a time.
Very solid performance from him yesterday, has the perfect set of attributes to compliment Maguire or Lindelof, but we all know he's got about one game left in him before he gets injured
Think he's actually been quite consistent in general when he's played for us, most of his notably bad performances have come either when he's been played as part of a 3, or within our defensively horrendous 2018-19 season.
Think he's actually been quite consistent in general when he's played for us, most of his notably bad performances have come either when he's been played as part of a 3, or within our defensively horrendous 2018-19 season.
One problem with Bailly is that he represents minimal attacking threat at set pieces. Not saying that our other CBs score many goals, but still a really top CB has to possess some attacking prowess, I would have thought.
That said, it is still more important for a defender to defend well, and Eric had performed very well yesterday
That said, it is still more important for a defender to defend well, and Eric had performed very well yesterday
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