Player Watch Player Watch: Destiny Udogie

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

He'd deal with all of them, defensively, better than Udogie would at this stage in his career.

He’ll stay back more but he’ll end up just backing away if he can’t get tight on the first ball. Players that do that have a tendency to drag the whole team back with them.

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

He'd deal with all of them, defensively, better than Udogie would at this stage in his career.

Agree with this. Davies clearly lacks the athleticism and attacking abilities of Udogie but very lets us down defensively.

Another plus might be that Porro sees more of the ball on the other side and he’s proven one of most creative players this season so we’ll still have a significant threat from one full back at least.

 

[Mr Pink]

Love Ben Davies and he’s put in great performances for us.

But to put him up against Saka, Salah, Foden and even Madueke in the space of a few weeks would just be negligence on our behalf.

Salah is spent looking

 

[midoshairband]

sod worrying about if Davies can step up and cover, its high time Maddison, Son etc to start to.

 

[coysjod]

Udogie's injury is just a scratch to Sess.

Ni!

 

[Guntz]

He'd deal with all of them, defensively, better than Udogie would at this stage in his career.

Udogie pretty much pocketed Saka and Salah when we played Arsenal/Liverpool?

I have nightmares thinking about Davies running back towards our goal trying to catch up with them.

If Ange were to change his tactics to accommodate for his lack of pace, then I would agree with you.

However, we all know that's not going to happen and we will still play the same way.

 

[Sp3akerboxxx]

Udogie pretty much pocketed Saka and Salah when we played Arsenal/Liverpool?

I have nightmares thinking about Davies running back towards our goal trying to catch up with them.

If Ange were to change his tactics to accommodate for his lack of pace, then I would agree with you.

However, we all know that's not going to happen and we will still play the same way.

And he just go roasted by Antony Gordon.

Ange is way more pragmatic than people give him credit for.

This whole "Ange never changes ever" thing is so far from the truth.

 

[Fredo]

Saka probably wanking himself to sleep over the fact he aint gotta face Destiny this weekend ffs.

 

[rossdapep]

Not worried about Davies defensively, it's performing that inverted role, he lacks the agility and technical ability to perform it and as we saw against Palace he offers no threat against a compact defence.

 

[mil1lion]

Saka probably wanking himself to sleep over the fact he aint gotta face Destiny this weekend ffs.

Hopefully he's actually fit to give Saka and Arteta a taste of their own medicine when they see the starting line up

 

[Mr Pink]

Not worried about Davies defensively, it's performing that inverted role, he lacks the agility and technical ability to perform it and as we saw against Palace he offers no threat against a compact defence.

Palace away?

 

[spurs9]

Not sure why everyone is assuming Davies will be LB, Emerson has played more mins a LB for us this season than Ben has and we also have Dragusin now, which would allow VdV to move to LB if thats what Ange wants to do.