WooJung Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 On the evidence of yesterday, Richardson should start from here on out. If he's not fit, then Cissokho should be a left-back who never crosses the half-way line. He never does anything good in the opposition half, all that he ever achieves is ending up out of position when the other team counters. Thing is, Richardson is very suspect at the back. Cissokho is rubbish going forward, but he hardly costs you any goals. If we can have an attacking line up capable of creating chances I'm glad with Cissokho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted February 22, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted February 22, 2015 Cissokho has scored two own goals this season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey2Arms Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 He's so passive for a big guy. Reminds me of the defender version of Heskey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 after the years of Lichaj, Clark, Baker, Bennett and Luna at LB, Cissokho is still a plus point from this season for me. I never expected him to be Roberto Carlos all of a sudden and am glad we have a half decent defender at last. If Gabby did anything ever he wouldnt be the only hope for a cross would he? or am I oversimplifying things? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I dont know what he has done wrong to be honest but the last few weeks (back end of Paul's time here and start of Sherwoods) he seems to be out of favour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 He reminds me of Sakho. Big, lumbering, and looks like he has got his boots on the wrong feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I'd actually rather play Joe Bennet at LB over Cissokho , that's how low I rate him I'm actually staggered he can make a career as professional footballer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momo Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 (edited) I saw the goals....how was Cissokho at fault for the first one? If this is the logic, then every player who is under pressure but still manages a pass to a fellow team mate has done so because the man marking him made a mistake. If anything it was Sinclair who was not marking his man, Ireland, casually jogging instead of marking Ireland. This led to Ireland having it easy picking out the goal scorer. Edited February 23, 2015 by momo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 I saw the goals....how was Cissokho at fault for the first one? If this is the logic, then every player who is under pressure but still manages a pass to a fellow team mate has done so because the man marking him made a mistake. If anything it was Sinclair who was not marking his man, Ireland, casually jogging instead of marking Ireland. This led to Ireland having it easy picking out the goal scorer. Cissokho had his man covered, Delph didn't need to double up on Walters IMO and he left Ireland wide open. Cissokho was doing his job correctly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momo Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I saw the goals....how was Cissokho at fault for the first one? If this is the logic, then every player who is under pressure but still manages a pass to a fellow team mate has done so because the man marking him made a mistake. If anything it was Sinclair who was not marking his man, Ireland, casually jogging instead of marking Ireland. This led to Ireland having it easy picking out the goal scorer. Cissokho had his man covered, Delph didn't need to double up on Walters IMO and he left Ireland wide open. Cissokho was doing his job correctly. Yes, that is almost how I saw it. I just think Sinclair should have been more involved. Just reading these last few pages, it seemed like Cissokho was at fault when he actually was not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Technically awful, and abysmal in the final third. But, he's still decent at the back and hasn't been calamitous like our previous LB incumbents and even K.Rich himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Technically awful, and abysmal in the final third. But, he's still decent at the back and hasn't been calamitous like our previous LB incumbents and even K.Rich himself. Yes we have had some really terrible left backs in recent years but I don't think he changes the trend much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stevo985 Posted February 23, 2015 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2015 I think defensivley Cissokho has been fine. He gets forward, but is poor when he gets there imo. Think he's fine for us for the rest of the season. Sound enough. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysAVFC Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 We always attack much more down the right with Hutton, I'm not sure if this is because Hutton is better or because he has much more support than Cissokho gets when attacking down the left. It always seemed like the case under Lambert, it was a bit more balanced the other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Bouma was hardly Roberto Carlos at left back, last time I checked the left back was to defend and Cissokho does that well enough. Since Bouma left we have had Warnock, Shorey, Luke Young, Delph, Bennett, Luna, Baker and Clark at left back and Cissokho has been an improvement on all 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Getting a hard press on here currently....he hasn't been that bad compared to the last few incumbants of that position. If you remember when Bouma was here he wasn't great going forward at all but it didn't matter as we had Young infront so I think Cissokho suffers from tactics and also lack of quality infront of him although with Sinclair having a promising start he could be the answer infront of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 LB just isn't a concern at the moment in my opinion. He has done fine. Tbh our defence has generally been ok this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 LB just isn't a concern at the moment in my opinion. He has done fine. Tbh our defence has generally been ok this season. Conceded too many late goals though. That's been a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YGabbana Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 See when ive been to Villa park and watched him he lets players run him far to often, the opposition player will often get the cross in. He cant cross himself either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 He's got a great song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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