Player Watch: Davinson Sanchez

[Russ1201]

Ange said in his post-presser he thought Dav was good tonight lol

Big him up for a potential sale maybe?

 

[Springerding]

Because he’s worth double that

Hi Daniel,

 

[tubbygold]

Ange said in his post-presser he thought Dav was good tonight lol

I don't think Ange will ever out a player for failing. He's probably praised him for trying to do what he was told to do if anything. To be fair, he wasn't that bad yesterday, apart from his two bad passes.

 

[Albertbarich]

Because he’s worth double that

Well if we don't sell him asap, by Friday morning be will be worth absolutely nothing to us.

 

[BENNO]

Big him up for a potential sale maybe?

I honestly thought he played alright, certainly to me there were at least 5 or 6 players worse than him in our team. I'd love to see his stats on the night, i reckon he made a higher percentage of accurate passes than half the team, albeit he also misplaced a few. He also made a couple of decent tackles/interceptions. He had a horribly ineffective set of players on his side of the pitch, Solomon on his weaker side and the technically poor (on the night) Skipp and Emerson. As for the penalty miss , i was as shocked as anyone else he stepped up for one, but surely that was because a couple of the young lads (Sarr and Dane) were felt too young for the responsibility and a couple of the bigger names bottled it ? If anything i admire he stepped up in place of the youngsters, i very much doubt he pushed eager penno takers out the way so he could be one of the main 5, more that when the manager asked who fancied taking them, he was one of the braver ones who put their hand up.

 

[Whazam]

I was there last night, and my position almost at pitch level and on Dav side of the pitch, have to say when in possession you could really appreciate the options he had from midfield, almost a players eye view. There was absolutely none. The movement in front of him, no angles, no energy, no help, it was poor. All hiding.

That said i also had s great appreciation of their goal and the poor defending from him. Never got tight, and never tried to force the attacker to rush or limit his options.

I feel this is really important to point out. No one denies he was awful the first half hour, but it was so obvious Sanchez, Emerson, Skipp and Solomon didn't work well together, which almost always ended with leaving Sanchez in crappy situations.

For example, I've seen him be criticized on here for both hitting the passes to Solomon too short, forcing him to run back to pick them up, and for hitting the passes straight at the opposition when trying to reach Solomon further up.

This happened again and again: Emerson went into an over-crowded centre of the pitch while Solomon pushed forward and Skipp didn't drop down to receive the ball, leaving Sanchez with extremely limited options.

My point here is – there's a lot of finger-pointing at individual players (funnily enough, at almost all the players in their separate threads), when the awful performance was very much a team effort. Sanchez was crap, but so was almost everyone else. But not everyone had the spotlight on them to the same extent as Sanchez.

 

[Tucker]

Sanchez wasn’t the problem last night. But he never should have been near the penalties. Feel like the coaching team and leaders in the squad let him down by allowing him to take one of the first five.

He’s just going to be a scapegoat to some people now.

 

[mil1lion]

That's rubbish. Watch Palhinha's pen. It's no different to Sanchez's except the keeper guessed right. Or Tete - both are not even looking at the keeper, they're focusing on the ball. The only two that watch the keeper are Pereira and Jimenez.

They were very different penalties. Sanchez opened his body up and it was obvious what side he was going.

 

[Schitzophonic]

Rennes fans have spotted that there is a private plane going from London to Rennes tonight and they’re speculating it’s Davinson. Fingers crossed.

 

[GioW]

Our back up CB ladies and gentlemen

 

[Stoof]

Hahahaha. He's likely to stay ... unless he goes.

 

[GioW]

It's like Levy gets a kick out of leaving managers short

 

[nzinho]

As long as Dier goes, Dav can stay as 4th CB. That is all that matters.

 

[philll]

To be fair on sanchez. He would have scored if it was Forster in goal. The amount of times he went the wrong way and was easily fooled is a bit embarrassing.

When you see a video of all of Fulham's kicks back to back it looks absolutely horrific for Forster. I genuinely can't think of a worse performance by a keeper in a shootout. Did he not care? Did he know he was going to get beaten every time but wanted to make it look like he was making an effort? If that was the case why not mix it up a bit? It was just bizarrely bad.

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[Montalbano]

Our back up CB ladies and gentlemen

 

[Ruffinthepuffin]

Our inability to shift players is just astounding.

 

[Dannyspur]

My point here is – there's a lot of finger-pointing by individual players (funnily enough, almost all by hojbjerg in his separate thread)

 

[cjbyid]

 

[kd2000]

Sky reporting we’ve rejected an offer from Rennes of £7.7m. Why?!?

Probably because the club is unlikely to sign another CB and dont want to leave us extremely thin in that position.

 

[kd2000]

As long as Dier goes, Dav can stay as 4th CB. That is all that matters.

who, pray tell is the 3rd CB?