- May 15, 2007
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Etienne Capoue. Discuss.
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The point is, with Dawson out for west ham, he'll be playing CB again and with Vertonghen out he's likely to continue to cover. But you don't need to be a CB regular to know to not drift mindlessly into the heart of the midfield.Now go back and analyse his games in CM where he usually plays.
Yes he didn't have a good game. You could see that after about 10 minutes he was fatigued, and I think this is a big reason he was out of position. His fitness should improve as he plays more and hopefully his performances will too. He has a lot of potential imo. He can defend and he is a good passer of the ball. I think he, and the whole team for that matter, just needs to relax in possession and not force high risk, low reward passes.I just analyzed the highlights. He didn't have a foggy notion what he was doing. He was playing out of position the whole match. I honestly don't think he was aware that he was a Center Back, but rather was aware that he was a central midfielder. Him & Dawson were not in the least bit a Central Defensive partnership in that match but were totally disconnected the entire time and that didn't help our cause.
Hopefully this thread can be used to give him prasie in the weeks and months ahead and I will gladly remove what I've just written.
The point is, with Dawson out for west ham, he'll be playing CB again and with Vertonghen out he's likely to continue to cover. But you don't need to be a CB regular to know to not drift mindlessly into the heart of the midfield.
Totally agree.Suarez would give any CB a hard time at the moment. I don't know what Capoue was told to do, or if he did it, but either way it was a disaster. He looked OK there in the previous match when we could hang onto the ball, but v Liverpool we were overrun in midfield so hardly surprising he got pulled about a lot.
Apparently Kaboul and Vlad are ok for tonight anyway.
I doubt he gives a flying shit what you think.
He's a CM who was covering CB. Dawson is supposed to be defence leader and team leader. Your poorest first team player shouldn't be your captain.
Talking about the poorest first team player, it is not Dawson. There is another which shouldn't have been in the squad at all, let alone starting.
i don't dislike capoue but i'd rather have tom carroll.