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2025-26 Performances

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4.9 Season Average Rating
Appearances
21
Clean sheets
2
Goals
0
Assists
1
Yellow cards
2
I think he might have made Walker consider retirement after today. Dalot beating him for pace over and over which would never happen back in the day.
 
Noticed in the ground Bayindir had a right go at him after the first goal for not making a better effort at blocking the cross. I’ve not seen it back as yet.

Good going forward today though.
 
Bwuk said:
Did really well for Mbeumos goal
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He's almost 7 years, here in United, but when he just stormed the box with the ball, he suddenly looked like player we need.

Sometimes can't figure out why he can't be more focused on that, instead of trying look like classic defender, which he probably isn't.
 
I prefer him as right WB over Amad any day of the week. While not always great he gets quite a bit of unfair stick.
 
I just have no idea what to think of him. Can be a an utter disaster and then turn in some good consistent performances.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
Technique is literally talent. You have it or not.
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Ole'sattheWheel said:
It’s true, if a player has poor technique as a youngster it’s generally really difficult to improve. Mental and physical attributes generally have the biggest improvement
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This is nonsense. Technique in any field can be learned from scratch, and improved.

Talent is simply having a sound technique naturally without tuition. If a player has poor or below average technique as a youngster they will need to have had other outstanding attributes to have made it as a professional, alongside working on that technique and improving it. The idea that a footballer, artist, musician can’t improve and only has what they had at birth or at the point they decided to try and perform is a laughable notion.
 
Ole'sattheWheel said:
It’s true, if a player has poor technique as a youngster it’s generally really difficult to improve. Mental and physical attributes generally have the biggest improvement
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That's not really true. Some yes, but definitely not all mental and physical attributes.

Conscientiousness is one of the big five personality traits that do not change drastically over a lifetime and influence baseline discipline and reliability. Neuroticism is another big five and will influence anxiety and limit resilience to stress. Grit and determination to achieve long-term goals thus far is seen as trait-like, too.

As for physical attributes: Pace is difficult to improve, if you have a low baseline you'll never get rapidly quick as you're limited by muscle fibre composition. Natural fitness and how easily you get injured is similar, you can't "train" to be less injury prone. On the physical part, heading technique is funnily enough the easiest part to improve at together with improving duels when jumping for the ball. But you can't change your natural height limit and it's very difficult to improve your jumping power.

It's the same for "technique". Some parts are more trait-like and others more state-like.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
Technique is literally talent. You have it or not.
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You can obviously learn technique so it's not a "you have it or you don't. You had to learn how to play football I imagine. You didn't just shoot out the womb kicking ball. As @BeretWearingEnt says, talent is picking up technique with little or no tuition/practice.
 
Dominos said:
I think he might have made Walker consider retirement after today. Dalot beating him for pace over and over which would never happen back in the day.
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Definitely something I’d be expecting to see him talk about on the overlap in a few years
 
Really confusing performance. Did really well and was also poor at the same time
 
BeretWearingEnt said:
This is nonsense. Technique in any field can be learned from scratch, and improved.

Talent is simply having a sound technique naturally without tuition. If a player has poor or below average technique as a youngster they will need to have had other outstanding attributes to have made it as a professional, alongside working on that technique and improving it. The idea that a footballer, artist, musician can’t improve and only has what they had at birth or at the point they decided to try and perform is a laughable notion.
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What a load of nonsense. You want to say that Dorgu with hard work and training can improve his technique on Cunha's level? Or Ugarte can improve his ball control on Modric level?
You can improve yourself of course but only to reach certain level.

Lets put it like this. Cunha, thanks to his natural talent started at level 7 regarding pure technique. Thanks to training he reached level 9.
Dorgu or Ugarte started at level 2. They are at level 3 now. They can train 24 hours per day but they will never reach level 4 or higher.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
What a load of nonsense. You want to say that Dorgu with hard work and training can improve his technique on Cunha's level? Or Ugarte can improve his ball control on Modric level?
You can improve yourself of course but only to reach certain level.

Lets put it like this. Cunha, thanks to his natural talent started at level 7 regarding pure technique. Thanks to training he reached level 9.
Dorgu or Ugarte started at level 2. They are at level 3 now. They can train 24 hours per day but they will never reach level 4 or higher.
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First off you're the one. who said you either have it or not, so by your own admission, it is indeed not binary.

Also you don't need level 9 (or improve as significantly as in your example) to become better or effective. You're conflating two different things.
 
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BeretWearingEnt said:
This is nonsense. Technique in any field can be learned from scratch, and improved.

Talent is simply having a sound technique naturally without tuition. If a player has poor or below average technique as a youngster they will need to have had other outstanding attributes to have made it as a professional, alongside working on that technique and improving it. The idea that a footballer, artist, musician can’t improve and only has what they had at birth or at the point they decided to try and perform is a laughable notion.
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There’s a lot of nuance to it. The fact is, Messi’a superior technical ability to every other footballer is obviously not because he practices more than any of them. All footballers have trained for thousands and thousands of hours. Yet there’s a huge disparity between their technical levels. It would be disingenuous to equate those with poorer technique as simply being ‘lazy’, for instance. Many, many players famed for their hard work and professionalism do not have the best technique.
 
Anyway, back to Dalot - today was better than anything I’ve seen from Dorgu, who looks a poor player to me.
 
ThanksBoss26 said:
Noticed in the ground Bayindir had a right go at him after the first goal for not making a better effort at blocking the cross. I’ve not seen it back as yet.

Good going forward today though.
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I dont put not stopping the cross on Dalot today. And I like Dalot's application but he is dumb as a stump.

In the move before that goal, Shaw switched positions with Dalot and the just ran back into his own position, leaving Dalot between two players. Dalot actually looked and put his hands up in a "WTF" kind of way. Then the ball got played to one of the two players he had his eye on.
 
Rozay said:
Anyway, back to Dalot - today was better than anything I’ve seen from Dorgu, who looks a poor player to me.
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Agree, and I don’t even rate Dalot
 
Mixed bag from Dalot today. Looked decent going forward, put some decent crosses in with his left foot including the assist for Mbuemo. He's capable of doing it so I don't know why he doesn't do it every game!

It was the same last year at Anfield. He gave TAA the mother and father of all roastings from LWB and we all thought, fantastic, he's figured out the position now! But we never saw anything near that performance for the rest of the season.

So I hope this isn't another one-off from him.

Defensively, he's still dodgy. Took 3-5 business days to get out to the Burnley crosser. He might have swapped positions momentarily with Shaw, but watching it back, he still had plenty of time to get back out to his proper position but reacted way too late.

It's been a recurring theme of Dalot defensively since he's been with us. It's like his brain freezes for 10 seconds and he forgets his job, and by the time he defreezes it's too late to do anything (see Spurs goal last year with his hand in the air saying "oops, sorry, that's my fault")
 
Bubz27 said:
I dont put not stopping the cross on Dalot today. And I like Dalot's application but he is dumb as a stump.

In the move before that goal, Shaw switched positions with Dalot and the just ran back into his own position, leaving Dalot between two players. Dalot actually looked and put his hands up in a "WTF" kind of way. Then the ball got played to one of the two players he had his eye on.
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Apologies, it was De Ligt, not Shaw.
 
ThanksBoss26 said:
Noticed in the ground Bayindir had a right go at him after the first goal for not making a better effort at blocking the cross. I’ve not seen it back as yet.

Good going forward today though.
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Yeah I was fuming at him for not moving across earlier. But he redeemed himself immediately with the assist
 
He did very well coming in for Dorgu who has looked unsure in the first 2 games.

He could have done better in defense but he was managing that entire flank.
I think if the overall team performance was stable he’d have the focus to manage when to go forward and when to focus on defense.
I dont blame him for a lapse under these circumstances.
 
The commentators kept saying he had a bad game but I honestly thought he played quite well as the interverted wingback. He posed a decent threat, made some good runs and such.
 
He should be a pretty rounded full back but he has some absolutely idiotic and technically sloppy moments which stop him getting there. Hopefully gets that consistency he had a couple of seasons ago. Better performance
 
I don’t like Dalot. But he had a great second half yday. Bizarre really that his performance flipped with the teams. He was pretty useless in the first when we were playing well and probably one of (if not) the best player in the second half
 
He was much better on the left yesterday than he has been on the right. But he didn’t really have to do much as it was only Burnley. He did get the better of Walker though a few times so fair play
 
DJ_21 said:
He was much better on the left yesterday than he has been on the right. But he didn’t really have to do much as it was only Burnley. He did get the better of Walker though a few times so fair play
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Never thought it mattered what side he starts on. He has had looked good and poor on both sides, it's the silly moments he has that is his downfall, not position.
 
Aint gota Kalou said:
Never thought it mattered what side he starts on. He has had looked good and poor on both sides, it's the silly moments he has that is his downfall, not position.
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Actually the side does matter as he’s more unpredictable on the left as he can cut back and use his right foot or he can go on the outside and use his left which is what got him the assist for Mbeumo. Far to predictable on the right as he just runs and crosses
 
He was great. The issue with him is that he is either a 3 or 7 (max 8). Apart from ETH first season when he was a 7 for most games, he fluctuates a lot in performance. On the other hand he is versatile. I wouldn't mind keeping him for next season too, but I wouldn't be against selling next summer. I think he can fetch around 30 millions as well.
 
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