john@staustell wrote:But we need 11 excellent, non-nervous players out there right now, and to compare him with Lescott, Toure or Kompany is insanity of the highest order.
He's filled in well, now move over son and wait your turn! Good lad.
Well, this is where I don't agree with you. He's surely less composed than Kompany, Lescott we still haven't seen under Mancini so we don't know, and Tourè...well he can be great one game and gash the following one. If he could find consistency, then of course he'd be ahead of Boyata in my pecking order, and to be honest he still is, but it has to be said that at least with Boyata we know what we can expect from him every game.
I was watching the highlights of the Hull game again, and I just wonder how could an experienced defender like Tourè allow Vennegoor of Hesselink all that time to lay it off to Altidore for the first one (then there has to be said that no one was marking the American, but this is another part of the matter) withouteven attempting to take the ball from him, and again, for the second goal, how could and experienced defender like him head the ball stright in the middle...it's obvious that there will be an opposition player on the edge of the box, so you have to head it toward the flanks, this is basic defending really...
I'm not saying Boyata wouldn't have done these things, I'm just saying that until he does these things, Tourè is not much more reliable than Boyata.
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:24 pm