Player Watch Player Watch: Micky van de Ven

[keithtighe93]

Someone mentioned above, and I probably agree, is he our best player?

So dominant, he mops up EVERYTHING. Seems such a likeable lad too, he has it all. What a signing. He’s worth 100m

 

[philll]

He made Garth Crooks' Team of the Week, for what that's worth.

 

[ItsBoris]

He has best in the world level potential.

Which CB pairing do you guys think is better, our current VDV/Romero or the last strong pairing we had of Vertonghen/Toby?

 

[ItsBoris]

Btw Holland's center backs - Van Dijk, Van De Ven, Ake, De Ligt, De Vrij. That's a hell of a set.

 

[Mr Pink]

He's going to the best CB in the world, ive no doubt about that

 

[Silky Skills]

He's going to the best CB in the world, ive no doubt about that

Messi might challenge you ......

 

[FrankSpencer]

 

[DogsOfWar]

He has best in the world level potential.

Which CB pairing do you guys think is better, our current VDV/Romero or the last strong pairing we had of Vertonghen/Toby?

Our current pairing.
Although if I had to choose the best pairing I'd go Toby/VdV.

 

[Gardham90]

He has best in the world level potential.

Which CB pairing do you guys think is better, our current VDV/Romero or the last strong pairing we had of Vertonghen/Toby?

Verts/Toby for me atm.

 

[SpursForever71]

 

[SpursForever71]

so am i seeing thing things or is god got VDV's back lol
no am not religious, may have just drunk a bit too much lol

 

[robotsonic]

He has best in the world level potential.

Which CB pairing do you guys think is better, our current VDV/Romero or the last strong pairing we had of Vertonghen/Toby?

Peak Toby and Vert without question as it stands. We leak too much for anyone to make much of a case otherwise to be honest. But those guys had years to build their partnership, and we're in season 1 with these lads. Nobody can sensibly deny that these two (and Dragusin in behind them) don't have the potential to be at least as good if things pan out. Romero oozes quality at times, especially positionally, but Micky has an x-factor that is just unteachable in his physicality. He really could be one to go on to be something really special just down to that in combination with his mentality and intelligence.

Tapsoba, lol. LMAO even.

 

[archiewasking]

Any word yet on his injury??

 

[carpediem1906]

This injury is damn annoying and damn unnecessary

all because linesmen refuse to raise their flags even for flagrant super obvious offsides, and defenders are forced to sprint back unnecessarily

especially so for teams that play a high line like us

 

[mark87]

Any word yet on his injury??

 

[BorjeSpurs]

Get well soon Micky.

 

[mil1lion]

We don't do him any favours though. It's great he has recovery pace but he shouldn't be doing it so often as he does. Hopefully not too serious because he's a top player and important for how we play. We just need to press better higher up and stop being sloppy in possession to allow the breaks as often. He shouldn't be doing this many sprints per game which only puts him at risk of injury.

 

[jonnyp]

We don't do him any favours though. It's great he has recovery pace but he shouldn't be doing it so often as he does. Hopefully not too serious because he's a top player and important for how we play. We just need to press better higher up and stop being sloppy in possession to allow the breaks as often. He shouldn't be doing this many sprints per game which only puts him at risk of injury.

City have built their entire defensive strategy on Walker doing what Micky does for us. He allows for us to have a high line, if he can't handle that then we'll have to play differently IMO, or partner him with another rapid CB to split the workload.

 

[mil1lion]

City have built their entire defensive strategy on Walker doing what Micky does for us. He allows for us to have a high line, if he can't handle that then we'll have to play differently IMO, or partner him with another rapid CB to split the workload.

I don't think Walker has to recover last ditch as often

 

[Dazzazzad]

This injury is damn annoying and damn unnecessary

all because linesmen refuse to raise their flags even for flagrant super obvious offsides, and defenders are forced to sprint back unnecessarily

especially so for teams that play a high line like us

In this case with the angle of the run and how soon the shot was after the throughball there wouldn't have been a whistle before the attempted block even if the flag went up right away.

It was also fairly tight margins - there are much more egregious examples.