A great defender and a key player in our tactical play when breaking out of defence. There’s few sides, including England, that would use those tactics, though, especially if their style of play is to dominate the opposition.
And the irony is, that under Southgate, we were ultra cautious and the first thought was, we must not lose.
I think just by the fact he's left footed left back he's under consideration by default !
His main role is to defend, which he’s very good at. I say stick to what you’re good at.
?Stick to what your good and develop weakness. It's the Brentford way.
Yes indeed. I spoke with Southgate re him and he said that Rico doesn't offer enough going forwards and that he was happy with the two he had (the Chelsea and Man United left backs iirc). I think it is difficult to disagree with him on that matter. We were pushing that he was the best 1 on 1 defender in the land but he wasn't interested.
Certainly didn't look that way when he burned off the Forest right back in the first half to set up the chance for Thiago....
It's no contest imo. Rico is our left back and if it isn't him it'll be Hickey
As you said, hopefully he’ll get up to speed in a couple of games.
Not much game time to be making judgements for me. I’ll reserve thoughts for much later in the year.
He moved up to be level with the 3 other Brentford players to play him offside, sadly Collins dropped deep and played him on just as the cross came in. Wasn’t caught napping, he moved on purpose.
He was before his injury when he was close to an England call up though? Every player was playing rubbish passes today and losing it, look at their third goal for example. We had zero options for the man on the ball.
He was never great on the ball, this is not a post-injury thing.
I think most players in the country would have been "caught napping" for the second goal.
Can't judge him (or anyone else) on today imo. You can't expect someone recently back from injury to run the whole line on his own. For now, I'm pleased he nearly lasted the whole game. Not saying you're wrong btw.
He is not limited at all and has been one of our best players when fully at it, he was also always our best attacking counter attack threat going forwards.
Henry WAS by some distance our best LB.
Other players are ‘limited’ as they don’t have his pace or aggression when defending one on one, his burst of pace created the two best chances when he had zero support from anyone. I’d rather a LB have pace and energy than look pretty dribbling. Arsenal played a CB who is solid at Old Trafford but not silky on the ball over Skelly.
Well for one at least Kayode matches him for pace in our back line, so not sure you can say that he has something the others don’t.
