Player Watch Player Watch: Pedro Porro

[chas vs dave]

Can't remember what caused the injury but he was gobbling in the 2nd half. Mad that he wasn't subbed

He was limping off the back of a tackle. It looked like his ankle.

 

[djhotspur]

Likely only miss this game. Good news at least

 

[felmani26]

Royal is absolutely fine to deputise - i'm not worried.

 

[mark87]

 

[Johno1470]

Any wonder he is injured and his fantastic performances from earlier in the season have somewhat declined.

He has played the most minutes of any player (GK aside). PP puts in shift after shift and if we want to have him as a valuable player in the seasons to come, we need a quality option to rotate him with. We risk him suffering a serious muscular injury if we keep demanding him to play week in week out, covering the distance that he does.

Ange clearly does not trust Emerson and as much as I like him, he needs sold in the summer with a quality rotation option for both Porro and Udogie prioritised.

 

[mark87]

 

[Westmorlandspur]

Ally Gold reporting Udogie ok for Palace but Porro more likely to miss out.. would be better the other way round as Davies can cope better than Emerson.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Arguably our most important player in this system...

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Any wonder he is injured and his fantastic performances from earlier in the season have somewhat declined.

He has played the most minutes of any player (GK aside). PP puts in shift after shift and if we want to have him as a valuable player in the seasons to come, we need a quality option to rotate him with. We risk him suffering a serious muscular injury if we keep demanding him to play week in week out, covering the distance that he does.

Ange clearly does not trust Emerson and as much as I like him, he needs sold in the summer with a quality rotation option for both Porro and Udogie prioritised.
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Yep was only a matter of time before he was going to pick up an overuse type injury.

We really need a more suitable back-up next season so we can rotate/rest him more especially when we are in europe.
The drop off to Royal and Davies is too large the way we play.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Ally Gold reporting Udogie ok for Palace but Porro more likely to miss out.. would be better the other way round as Davies can cope better than Emerson.

Not sure why people disagreeing with this, you're absolutely spot on. Emerson by far the weaker stand-in mostly due to his lack of on the ball mobility to play in the tight pockets, Davies is no expert at that but he is more comfortable at it than Royal is.

 

[Westmorlandspur]

Not sure why people disagreeing with this, you're absolutely spot on. Emerson by far the weaker stand-in mostly due to his lack of on the ball mobility to play in the tight pockets, Davies is no expert at that but he is more comfortable at it than Royal is.

I still think skippy is worth a go at right back. In Anges system the full backs play in midfield, so put one in there. Skippy is a hard working tenacious player, I don’t think we lose anything with him at right back.

 

[mil1lion]

As long as one of Porro or Udogie is back it will be a huge boost. The issue is when both Davies and Emerson start together and we lose 2 real quality attacking threats. In the summer I would look for a player comfortable on either side with attacking quality for the inverted role to compete with Porro and Udogie. Similar to the 3 centre backs we have it can allow us to rotate between 3 of them a bit when 1 needs a rest. Then just use Emerson and Davies as backup players for depth. Maybe Cancelo assuming Barca wont have the money to make the move permanent from City.

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

As long as one of Porro or Udogie is back it will be a huge boost. The issue is when both Davies and Emerson start together and we lose 2 real quality attacking threats. In the summer I would look for a player comfortable on either side with attacking quality for the inverted role to compete with Porro and Udogie. Similar to the 3 centre backs we have it can allow us to rotate between 3 of them a bit when 1 needs a rest. Then just use Emerson and Davies as backup players for depth. Maybe Cancelo assuming Barca wont have the money to make the move permanent from City.

This is why KWP makes sense. Strong technically, experience playing regularly at both left and right back, and obviously helps with the HG/association trained quota.

 

[theShiznit]

This is why KWP makes sense. Strong technically, experience playing regularly at both left and right back, and obviously helps with the HG/association trained quota.

Good on the ball in tight areas too so fits the bill of picking up spaces in midfield areas.

 

[Bluto Blutarsky]

This is why KWP makes sense. Strong technically, experience playing regularly at both left and right back, and obviously helps with the HG/association trained quota.

Not very strong physically. Porro is small, but has upper body strength, and Udogie is a unit. I am not sure he would fit in well in a CM role - which is where the FBs find themselves sometimes.

 

[mil1lion]

This is why KWP makes sense. Strong technically, experience playing regularly at both left and right back, and obviously helps with the HG/association trained quota.

Question is if the prem is a level too high especially for where we are aiming. He might just be at his level now.

 

[SpursSince1980]

I think the Royal critique is a little OTT. The guy has barely played RB all season. He's mostly covered at LB and as a right-sided CB. Of course he would be rusty. And the way Ange inverts his FBs is admittedly not suited this Emerson's style of play. So, for me, it's more on the coach to make small tweaks that mitigate potential points of weakness.

Both of Wolves goals were hardly down to him either. The first was a few of players having a mutual brain fart and not picking up their midfielder. The second was a quick breakaway and the bigger issue was that the trailing midfielders didn't get back with as much urgency as was needed.

Royal is not the reason the game was lost. The midfield and attack had a bad day and simply couldn't figure out how to break a low block, and capped it off by making mistake after mistake.

Would we have won if Porro started? Who knows. But the lineup we put out there should have been more than good enough to beat Wolves.

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

Not very strong physically. Porro is small, but has upper body strength, and Udogie is a unit. I am not sure he would fit in well in a CM role - which is where the FBs find themselves sometimes.

Surely he's developed physically though? I agree he was pretty timid when we sold him but that was 3 seasons ago and by all accounts he's been Southamptons best player in the championship - which typically is a more physical league than the prem.

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

Question is if the prem is a level too high especially for where we are aiming. He might just be at his level now.

You might be right but he's still only 24(?), has prem experience, champions league experience, and even a cap for England, so I feel he could definitely do a job as a squad player for us.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

I still think skippy is worth a go at right back. In Anges system the full backs play in midfield, so put one in there. Skippy is a hard working tenacious player, I don’t think we lose anything with him at right back.

Just the fact he can’t pass under pressure, isn’t agile and doesn’t know how to play that position oh and he gets beat very easily 1 v 1 but other than that yea we’d lose nothing playing by Skipp RB