Flekken could easily point out that the defence is affecting him.
He is a good keeper but just had a bad day compounded with poor defending for the goal, Raya was exceptional, But that was what we made him, Work obviously is still needed on Flekken, and I'm sure areas like this will be covered in training, Raya had a shaky start in the first 5 games last season he conceded 7 goals, so far Flekken has only conceded 6, so that's an improvement, And he only conceded a penalty against Newcastle rather than the 5 Raya let in against them later on.
Good to see Ziggys_human does not like the fact that i have said back the keeper.
They played that way at our place last season.
Hopefully he can bounce back as I said his distribution is class it’s just his catching and flapping at crosses that’s the worry.
The bit you was on about was a ball over the top nobody around him and he punches for a corner could of let it go out or catch it he did neither, I don’t think he’s bad just needs to cut out the silly errors
Yeah and give away an indirect free kick for handling a back pass. Great idea
There seems to be a lack of communication at times
Indeed, We are only 5 games in and that can be worked on and improved in training, Have faith we will get there in the end, We always do. ? ? ?
Also iirc first goal away at Boro even though we blew them away afterwards.
How do you think he achieved both of those things? By NOT being solid and reliable?
Strakosha may be a really good keeper, who knows? All I can say is that based on what I’ve seen of him in the two games he’s played, it’s illogical to call for him to be first choice.
I think Hickey was equally culpable in the penalty being given away. He messed up the pass back and was clearly unaware that a Newcastle player was right behind,as he hadn't checked and looked panicked when he saw Gordon was there. Having said all that, it was a clumsy challenge from Flekken and he was lucky to get away with the disallowed goal, when Wilson made minimal contact. Poor performance by Flekken overall and I'd say the jury is still out on whether he's the long term solution to replacing Raya.
He was wrong. Not being nasty just an observation. Raya made lots of errors over the years especially in his early years with us. Flekken is learning just how strong the Prem is, how frantic the football is at times and how little time players have.
Some of those slating Mark were not around for our Championship days.
Let’s give the guy 10 games or so before slating him. For those with short memories Raya did not set the world a light in his early days here
Not yet. Raya was not Raya until we developed him. Remember the ‘he’s too small’ debate?
Agree with everything above but then again Raya was 23 when we got him, Flekken is 30. But yes raya took a while to bed in, and had mistakes in him.
Also came for one and dropped it.
So f***ing what.
Was this the one that the referee blew up for the foul on him by the Everton player? Genuine question as I was only half watching the game. I saw the incident where he was fouled, was there another?
It was, but he dropped it way before he waa "fouled"
