Player Watch: Davinson Sanchez

[djhotspur]

Rumours injury isn’t as bad as made out by AG .

he could be back training again in a week . More a knock then a muscle issue apparently.

mixed reports , but latest ones suggest things may not be as bad as 1st reported .

Our medical staff… “hold my beer”

Cuti out with ACL tear

 

[paulcumpstone]

Im happy for him to play on the right of a 3. Think hes decent in that position, i really dont like him on the left. Lacks belief on the ball as it is but on the left he just looks lost

 

[Tucker]

More a knock then a muscle issue apparently.

A knock followed by a muscle injury sounds worse than reported.

 

[Aleks]

I like Sanchez. When I was looking at the bench in the videos during our last goal at Chelsea I noticed how passionate he was. It made me sympathetic towards him not playing. As long as Romero is doing fine and will be back just like normal I am happy for Sanchez to get some game time.

 

[septicsac]

Romero is a huge loss and as much as Sanchez has improved, there is a serious dip from CR to DS, esp when transitioning from def to attack, where Dav often lacks belief and accuracy of pass.
Hope for the best and he gets a good run of it, much happier he is only filling in as required and not relied on week to week, a good threat from set pieces as well.

 

[St José Dominguez]

I thought he did perfectly well when called upon in the latter stages of last season. As a backup I think he’s absurdly underrated. There’s always going to be a drop down in quality if compared to someone like Romero, I don’t think an international footballer who’s played 150+ games for us should be sneered at so much. As long as he’s focused (under Conte he’s been much more stable) how about showing a bit of support for the guy rather than crying like it’s the apocalypse.

 

[Joshua]

He was fine when he stepped in last season. Is what it is there’s going to be injuries and suspensions along the way. Liverpool have already lost half their squad 2 games in. Sure we’ll be fine.

 

[ShelfWatcher]

Romero is a huge loss and as much as Sanchez has improved, there is a serious dip from CR to DS, esp when transitioning from def to attack, where Dav often lacks belief and accuracy of pass.
Hope for the best and he gets a good run of it, much happier he is only filling in as required and not relied on week to week, a good threat from set pieces as well.

Romero is a huge loss and as much as Sanchez has improved, there is a serious dip from CR to DS, esp when transitioning from def to attack, where Dav often lacks belief and accuracy of pass.
Hope for the best and he gets a good run of it, much happier he is only filling in as required and not relied on week to week, a good threat from set pieces as well.

Disagree, Sanchez is fine at RCB and not

Romero is a huge loss and as much as Sanchez has improved, there is a serious dip from CR to DS, esp when transitioning from def to attack, where Dav often lacks belief and accuracy of pass.
Hope for the best and he gets a good run of it, much happier he is only filling in as required and not relied on week to week, a good threat from set pieces as well.

Romero is a very good defender, but disagree about the serious dip. 3 games, 3 wins, 3 clean sheets last time Sanchez came in.
Apologies for phone malfunctions ???

 

[EQP]

There's a feel-good factor about the club at the moment but let's not rewrite history. Sanchez is average at best in almost every department. When Romero isn't playing it'll be a case of getting through it rather than Sanchez offering much.

I don't think anyone is doing that. He did well last season when called upon and I expect him to continue doing well until Romero is back. Even if you dismiss the Norwich game, he was solid in our in our 2 very important home games vs Arsenal and Burnley. Just need him to do the same until Romero is back.

 

[bbunc]

Im happy for him to play on the right of a 3. Think hes decent in that position, i really dont like him on the left. Lacks belief on the ball as it is but on the left he just looks lost

Bingo. He was fine there end of last year. Just wish he hadn’t had to play LCB during preseason. He’s a fish out of water there but he’s fine at RCB.

Compared to what most teams can trot out for their backup CBs he’s actually quite decent.

 

[Cochise]

He's a solid defender, but I don't think it is an overstatement to say that he is markedly worse on the ball than Romero. There are times when Romero finds short passing options that Sanchez will not and those clipped balls over the opposition striker to Davies will not happen.

 

[septicsac]

Disagree, Sanchez is fine at RCB and not
Romero is a very good defender, but disagree about the serious dip. 3 games, 3 wins, 3 clean sheets last time Sanchez came in.
Apologies for phone malfunctions ???

3 wins doesn't put him on a similar level to Romero, by that reasoning we would have won against Chelsea at the weekend. However, I do think he is ok at rcb and has improved under Conte.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

He’s fine to stand in, loved his passion on the bench on sat but we still need to sign a decent 6th CB anyways

 

[mil1lion]

Disagree, Sanchez is fine at RCB and not
Romero is a very good defender, but disagree about the serious dip. 3 games, 3 wins, 3 clean sheets last time Sanchez came in.
Apologies for phone malfunctions ???

His form was more impressive midway through last season. It only really fell apart when Dier was out. He's the key and why I think we really need another leader for CCB. The likes of Sanchez are so much calmer when around someone like him. Alongside Rodon he struggled a lot as with Tanganga but when alongside Vertonghen , Alderweireld, Dier he is a lot better. He's also much more comfortable in a 3.

 

[fridgemagnet]

If Sanchez comes in to cover Romero I'd be inclined to possibly play Lenglet over Davies (if he's fit) as it should limit what we loose with Sanchez's limited distribution with the ball, as we just switch the side doing most of the progressing; only issue is Dier will need to do a lot of handholding back there as Davinson needs players to talk him through the game and Lenglet is fresh to the league and fresh to Conte's tactics.

Eventually I expect to see Romero Dier Lenglet in a back three as it makes it a bit less obvious which flank the balls going to go to, currently it's quite easy to telegraph it's heading to Deki. I'm not dumping on Ben I just feel Lenglet does certain aspects better.

I just hope the crowd don't jump on Sanchez and make it nervy for him early doors; you've only got to back to the arse game to see how nervous he was with the home crowd against him. Sure he's not Romero and I'd be a hypocrite if I said I've never complained about him or said that he makes the place nervous, I also wouldn't be averse to selling him given the right replacement and actually getting a proper fee (not just a loan option) for him; I say this for full transparency, that I'll be sitting at home probably jittery watching him but I won't be giving him shit from the stands as it helps nobody.

 

[ShelfWatcher]

Madness to drop Davies

 

[ShelfWatcher]

3 wins doesn't put him on a similar level to Romero, by that reasoning we would have won against Chelsea at the weekend. However, I do think he is ok at rcb and has improved under Conte.

Chelsea away is a very difficult game but we might have got a draw with Sanchez.
I don't agree with your assessment of Sanchez.

 

[wrd]

Guy is our 5th choice CB, of courss there's a drop in quality when one of the best CB's in football is out. This idea that we could get a player as an understudy to Romero that is better quality than Sanchez for that spot in the squad is ridiculous in my opinion. Feel like people are living in fantasy lad at times, nobody on here but just in general since this Romero news broke. Look at Liverpool and Citys choice when they get into 5th or even 4th choice, the quality drop is vast.

If we can get a young RCB and build him up, that's a different convo. LCB is more realistic as we would be moving our current players to the bench.

 

[ravo]

Obviously there's a dip in quality with Romero out - but putting Sanchez in is a no-brainer. That's what he's there for - RCB back-up.

 

[spids]

When you have a top manager, and a clear, well understood system, having understudies coming in is not a problem. Remember when Toby was out for a long term injury under Poch (Sanchez)? Same with Jan (Wimmer)?