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Compared to usual yes but still not good enough. He probably came out like 2-3 times out of the 5-10 times the ball went deep into the box.He seemed very confident and commanding today. Also got out of his line. Very promising
Fair assessment. Still never feel a hundred perfect secure with him but hope the clean sheet helps him play better.Punched a cross clear and I remember him leaving his box once to sweep up. Made a couple of decent saves. Long kicking was generally poor. An improvement, but still not what we need.
Yeah we've set up to mitigate his weaknesses. Surely he'll be replaced next season.Good save and since pre-season he is at least trying to sweep more (though still not enough)
But one suspects that a lot of us deciding to go long pretty much every time De Gea gets the ball is down to us having to compensate for the weaknesses of players like De Gea. If we sign a nominal 2nd choice goalkeeper this summer then I hope they're a hell of a lot better on the ball than Dave.
Going from De Gea costing us goals by playing out from the back to De Gea costing us the ability to play out from the back so he doesn't cost us goals is only so much of an improvement though. It would be a lot easier just to have a goalkeeper who can actually handle possession and work from there.One outstanding save and one good save. Very much saved us points today. I was happy to see him play long after so many times trying to play out from the back has cost us goals.
Same here. You can see that he's trying, but it obviously doesn't come naturally to him.Fair assessment. Still never feel a hundred perfect secure with him but hope the clean sheet helps him play better.
Definitely trying more. There is a downside to it. Sometimes keepers get it wrong and concede silly goals from coming out. Lisandro bailed him out at the weekend.More positively, early signs that he's at least working on sweeping more. Below are his average defensive actions outside the box per 90.
17/18 - 0.35
18/19 - 0.26
19/20 - 0.29
20/21 - 0.35
21/22 - 0.24
22/23 - 0.50
Still extremely early obviously as we're only four games in but I'd say the increase in his willingness to sweep is backed by the eye-test too, even in pre-season. If he's going to improve on any of his weaknesses, this is probably the one.
That's why Dubravka is such a sensible signing. He is like the polar opposite of Dave, which means we can use different styles of keeper depending on what teams we meet and how we want to play in a particular match.He is trying to sweep more, but he really isn't natural at it and it looks very forced. Will see when we decide to play a high line again but his natural instinct is still backwards rather than forwards.
Can't play out from the back with him meaning we need a decent target man (we dont have one) and some good scrappers in midfield to have any hope of getting control of matches. His long kicks are pretty poor anyway so that dosent help either.
Limited GK that is gonna limit the way we play.
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He played some good passes into mct and eriksen so he definitely has the ability to do it. He just doesn't trust himself.Good clean sheet. Saved a difficult free kick, but didn’t have much else to do shot stopping wise. Played several good passes between the lines, but Mostly distributed it long with rather poor accuracy.
I dunno, felt like we picked up a lot of second balls because of them... Basically got us in possession higher up the pitch. Especially in the first half.Possession waster. We'll never get to play Ten Hag intended football with him between the stick. Every pass back to him was an automatic possession loss.
That was a match winning saveGood clean sheet. Saved a difficult free kick, but didn’t have much else to do shot stopping wise. Played several good passes between the lines, but Mostly distributed it long with rather poor accuracy.
Fairly easy for him. I'd be massively disappointed if he didn't.That was a match winning save
Yeah not enough people realize this when moaning about how we aren't keeping the ball well. Watch how Liverpool and City are able to dominate games by having a keeper that acts as a true 11th player on the pitch with the ball at his feet, and compare it to us when we are forced to play the ball back to the keeper. It's night and day, and it's the reason Pep binned off Joe Hart for Bravo instantly upon arriving even though Bravo was a piss poor shot stopper (even Ederson himself isn't the greatest shot stopper tbh).Possession waster. We'll never get to play Ten Hag intended football with him between the stick. Every pass back to him was an automatic possession loss.
Yeah, but still I prefer he keeps launching them up the field than try to play out from the back and mess it up as he is not good at it.Possession waster. We'll never get to play Ten Hag intended football with him between the stick. Every pass back to him was an automatic possession loss.
