CookieYiddo
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What a player. What a player.
Player Watch Player Watch: Micky van de Ven
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BorjeSpurs
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Spurs4CL
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Me too mate. Furious.
thebenjamin
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No ceiling
HNIM
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Last summer? More like since Son.
The announcers in the US feed, every time Palace tried countering would be like “well, thats not going to work, is it?”
worcestersauce
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They would be now but they weren't last summer when he was just a kid playing in an average Bundesliga side, by all accounts he was even our second choice.
Terrific yesterday though with the Palace no 14 throwing his weight around trying to bully him all game.
easley91
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Because this place only does negativity..
He was my MOTM. Absolute monster of a player.
ohtottenham!
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Scary thing is he's still developing while he's putting in world class performances in his debut season. Although his pace is a cheat code, he's also an excellent all-round footballer, which just elevates his game to another level.
So we have a world cup winner and the imperious VDV at the heart of our defence and we still keep conceding goals. Ok, yesterday was a worldie free kick, the other week it was counter attacks, next week it will be something else, the point is with the keeper and defenders we have, we should be shutting teams out more regularly, this has the added benefits of putting more pressure on our opponents and easing the pressure on our forwards. Only 6 teams have fewer clean sheets than us this season and IMHO the likes of Vic, Romero and VDV are the types of players who truly value a clean sheet. Woolwich have twice as many clean sheets as us, and they still score goals, do we think their defenders are twice as good as ours?
We do need to keep more clean sheets ideally, but I’ll take the 3 points for now.
It’s also worth noting that we have the seventh best defensive record in the league right now, whereas last season we finished with the fifteenth best defensive record.
Arsenal are a benchmark to aim for but they are deep into their project and conceded twenty goals fewer than us last season! They also have the best defensive record in the league this season.
van de Ven is great but he’s missed a lot of games through injury and, anyway, bridging a 20 goal difference to Arsenal in one season under a new manager, style of play etc is always going to be a big ask. Even with the “impervious” van de Ven.
tobi
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Carragher (paraphrasing) said Liverpool scouted him but weren't fully convinced.
I can't find anything on the internet to support that though, it looks like the scout did recommend him but Spurs moved faster to close the deal (remember Tapsoba was first choice but didn't lead anywhere so they moved onto the next option).
ohtottenham!
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Arteta would be extremely happy to have our first-choice back line. He'd be looking elsewhere on the field to improve the whole setup of the team, which would also improve team defence. It would take him years to do it, just as it has at Arsenal.
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