Wonderwall wrote:Bravo hasn't made the greatest start of his city tenure. However, the witch hunt is rather ridiculous. He is improving, he couldn't do anything about the Liverpool goal, fantastic header but the defence was at fault. Zaba for not closing Lallana and kolarov for not tracking wijnaldum (sp).
Apart from that he was composed against a Liverpool team who pressed him at every opportunity.
Yesterday he was good again especially down to 10 men he gave us that extra pass option to keep possession. Their goal was one of those melee goal mouth scrambles.
Why isn't anyone pointing out his attributes. I am not his biggest fan and think his shot stopping has been very poor, but give the guy a break. Maybe we would have lost yesterday if Hart was in goal as we would have surrendered possession much more.
I agree with this.
Bravo will always be a media target because of the whole saga with him. Funny how Joe Hart became a media favorite after he left and was missed that much by this bent media, but when he was here, everyone was screaming for him to be replaced in the national team by Butland.
Now, I agree some reactions against Bravo were harsh (myself included called him a clown many times), but I also agree his distribution is fantastic. I think Pep does not care that much who we have in goal, if that person can kick a ball. That is where his whole system of football starts. Pep”s logic is simple and good, if you have the possesion we have, it is really difficult not to win a lot of games and to be fair, he is right. What he did not expect was our poor finishing in the past two seasons. We miss too much.
Now, going back to Bravo, the problem is his age and what are we going to do about it. We need in the summer or next summer (depends on what will happen) someone new. I don't think we are going to keep Bravo until he is 38. The question is who will fill his shoes. I want to say Rulli, but his performances are mixted.
Bravo needs to show his leadership which made him famous at Sociedad and his national team in order to survive here.