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Sorry CarheeX but a few lapses? that was just yesterday and he has them every game, his concentration levels are really poor and he gets caught ball watching far too often.
This is not just his fault though, surely years of coaching should have sorted this out, if we can see it why isn`t it being dealt with? he has costs us many goals this year by sleeping at the far post. We conceed more goals because of his defending than we score through his attacking play.
He is not a bad player by any means but he shouldn`t be making the same errors over and over again. At the beginning of last season, I would have agreed with you, but he doesn't make those same errors over and over again anymore. Granted, he had a few errors today, but I don't think he had the shocker everyone else seems to. Carra and Lucas today were much worse. He was perhaps a fault for the first goal, but the second was the cb's fault. But even if he was our worst player on the pitch against Spurs, he has been a rock this season and last. I'm not even talking about his going forward. His defensive positioning and tackles at key moments have improved exceptionally. Even yesterday when he was having a "shocker" he had a really nice sliding tackle that prevented a third goal. He's the best right back in the league. If anyone in our back line is assured of his place, it should be Glen Johnson.
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Harsh. Apart from a few lapses yesterday he's still been one of our better players this season. I don't like this knee jerk nonsense when we write a player off after one poor game and then claim he's world class the next time he does well. Johnson is one of the best right backs in the league and very versatile too. Agree 100%. Cannot believe some of the crap I've seen written about him since the game yesterday. Here's one post I saw on a Facebook group yesterday: "Can't take anymore of that piece of [oops] Johnson at our club!! Awful awful player get rid of him"Absolutely outrageous!! For the first half of the season, Suarez aside, Johnson was probably our best player. He's going through a dip in form, having had a few bad/mediocre games recently and all of a sudden people are slaughtering him and saying he should be sold. The fickleness of it is off the charts. Disgraceful, IMO.
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Harsh. Apart from a few lapses yesterday he's still been one of our better players this season. I don't like this knee jerk nonsense when we write a player off after one poor game and then claim he's world class the next time he does well. Johnson is one of the best right backs in the league and very versatile too. Agree with all that Carheex
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johnsons a class right back and will be englands for years to come thats how bad he is
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I`m going to add to this after watching our Under 21`s conceed three goals to West Ham this afternoon, we totally dominated the game and the three goals we gave them (and we did give them away) were all from crosses into the box. Plenty of players plus the keeper there to deal with ball but nobody did, Keeper stayed on his line too even though the ball was floated high into the box.
There must be some sort of policy running through the club as the first 11 do excatly the same regulary, Pepe very rarely leaves his goaline anymore and we are paying for it. This needs sorting quickly as we just undo all our hardwork through crappy defending.
Johnson like all our defenders have made a few blunders this year and although the odd one is acceptable they have all had too many. My problem with Johnson is that his mistakes are always the same ones, to do it once forgiveable, twice unlucky but to keep on doing it is just unacceptable.
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I`m going to add to this after watching our Under 21`s conceed three goals to West Ham this afternoon, we totally dominated the game and the three goals we gave them (and we did give them away) were all from crosses into the box. Plenty of players plus the keeper there to deal with ball but nobody did, Keeper stayed on his line too even though the ball was floated high into the box.
There must be some sort of policy running through the club as the first 11 do excatly the same regulary, Pepe very rarely leaves his goaline anymore and we are paying for it. This needs sorting quickly as we just undo all our hardwork through crappy defending.
Johnson like all our defenders have made a few blunders this year and although the odd one is acceptable they have all had too many. My problem with Johnson is that his mistakes are always the same ones, to do it once forgiveable, twice unlucky but to keep on doing it is just unacceptable. My recollection is that last time Pepe did leave his goalline, we did pay for it.
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Johnson is not up to the standard he makes too many mistakes too often his defending is poor ok going forward thought is that enough?
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Agreed right back is not the priorty No, but Johnno's mistakes should still be brought up with him, and rectified for the future. I assume that's what BR is doing on a continual basis, which brings up the question: Why don't we see an improvement on Johnno's defensive skills? I thing the Central Defenders are more to be blamed for yesterday's goals, they have to head away the crosses not the full back. Have a look at Spud's first goal again! If the central defender misses his header because the ball comes in too high for him, the least you would expect from a fullback is to face the right way and try to put some pressure on the opponent (Vertonghen), but Johnno just did nothing about it and hoped it would go away - which it clearly didn't do! I know we should have CB's better capable of dealing with aerial threat, but either way any player out on the pitch should try and defend to the best of his abilities. I think Johnno can do better but just doesn't put his mind to it properly - or is he afraid of aerial duels? Watched it again also and Vertogeen attacked the ball with huge momentum from behind in the middle of 2 defenders with Carra missing it (or could not jump high enough). GJ I think thought that Carra would head it, but, who do you want to replace him with? We cannot but 11 players, the priority is central defence.
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