Popular Post ozvillafan Posted December 5, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2021 He does give the ball away a lot and at times gets bullied off it (hard not to when the opposition is committing 25 fouls)... ... but he can do things no other player in a claret shirt can. Case in point: The 70th minute and the Ramsey chance. If you can, watch the build up again. Buendia carries the ball out of our half, is double teamed but twists and turns out of it, then lays off a beautiful ball for Watkins in the process of being fouled. 2 passes later and Ramsey should score. All up, he drew in and dealt with 4 Leicester defenders, giving Watkins, McGinn and Ramsey acres of space. He will do this often in a game - as often as he gives it away. Once everybody gets on the same wavelength, he'll be first name on the team sheet. 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kiwivillan Posted December 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2021 (edited) 12 minutes ago, ozvillafan said: Case in point: The 70th minute and the Ramsey chance. If you can, watch the build up again. Buendia carries the ball out of our half, is double teamed but twists and turns out of it, then lays off a beautiful ball for Watkins in the process of being fouled. 2 passes later and Ramsey should score. Just watched again. He won back possession with relentless press though was only jogging. Evans passed the ball to teammate and Nakamba flew up to double team with Buendia and Buendia nicked it. Buendia detractors probably only focusing on the bad chest down which gave away possession less than minute before Edited December 5, 2021 by Kiwivillan 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAGONZ_RULE Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 (edited) 6 hours ago, Spoony said: He seems to only play for himself. Strikes me as a complete knob That is unfair, you don't know him personally. He works hard for the team and gets annoyed to be subbed off, that does not make him a "complete knob". Edited December 6, 2021 by DRAGONZ_RULE 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DRAGONZ_RULE Posted December 6, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 6, 2021 4 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: Can I be honest? I expected him to be almost as good as Grealish! Yeah that's fair - it's like the time I sold my Porsche, bought a BMW for a third of the price and was disappointed that it wasn't "almost as good". 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 There’s a 60-70m player in there. Hope as he gets more comfortable with the system and the players around him the penchant for misplaced midfield passes/caught in possession becomes a thing of the past. He’s incredibly unselfish with his play and also has a bit of a prick about him which I personally love. Always looking to create for others and always pressing defensively. Can see why Stevie likes him. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DRAGONZ_RULE Posted December 6, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 6, 2021 3 hours ago, vreitti said: Yes I've seen him try a lot. Sadly he isn't very successful. He mostly keeps losing the ball and often in dangerous situations. He's a liability at the moment. Look I know I'm being overly harsh and that's due to what we paid for him. I expected a ready-made, quality playmaker, not a work in progress, inconsistent grafter. Creative attackers almost always take time to bed in to a new team and environment!! Look at Grealish himself, undoubtedly one of the best players in the division and struggling to adapt to life at City. Bernardo Silva is currently the second best player in the world after Salah and if you lot were his manager in his first season at City you would have sent him back to Portugal Leo bloody Messi, the best player in the entire **** history of football, has moved to a new club for the first time in his career and has only 1 goal all season - you guys would probably be binning him off too. FMD the number of people on here who think real life football is FIFA and you can just plug a player into a team and expect 100% output from day one absolutely astounds me. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 He's getting there for sure. Gets caught dithering or taking an extra touch a bit too often right now, but I think that's a combination of both him and the team itself still clicking. Even Gerrard himself constantly hammers home the point about the team being a work in progress in terms of possession and I think you can see this in the good and bad of Buendia. When he gets it right he pulls off some majestic stuff and generally gets moves flowing better than most. Can't fault the work off the ball either given the type of player he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam2003 Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 32 minutes ago, DRAGONZ_RULE said: Creative attackers almost always take time to bed in to a new team and environment!! Look at Grealish himself, undoubtedly one of the best players in the division and struggling to adapt to life at City. Bernardo Silva is currently the second best player in the world after Salah and if you lot were his manager in his first season at City you would have sent him back to Portugal Leo bloody Messi, the best player in the entire **** history of football, has moved to a new club for the first time in his career and has only 1 goal all season - you guys would probably be binning him off too. FMD the number of people on here who think real life football is FIFA and you can just plug a player into a team and expect 100% output from day one absolutely astounds me. I was thinking to myself again after the game today that (ironically enough given they are struggling) I love Leicester’s model… buy players, some on big money, but assume it will take a year for them to be up and running. As long as Buendia, Bailey etc are firing next season (and to be clear I think they’ll be firing well before then) then next summer’s signings go into that pipeline as well and can be eased in. That doesn’t work if you’re scrapping against relegation and need immediate results but hopefully that won’t be us again any time soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Panto_Villan Posted December 6, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 6, 2021 4 hours ago, Adam2003 said: I was thinking to myself again after the game today that (ironically enough given they are struggling) I love Leicester’s model… buy players, some on big money, but assume it will take a year for them to be up and running. As long as Buendia, Bailey etc are firing next season (and to be clear I think they’ll be firing well before then) then next summer’s signings go into that pipeline as well and can be eased in. That doesn’t work if you’re scrapping against relegation and need immediate results but hopefully that won’t be us again any time soon. Frankly I prefer the VillaTalk transfer model of buying players and immediately deciding they’re shit. 1 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted December 6, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 6, 2021 (edited) He seems to be getting better each game, by the mid point of the season I think we’ll start seeing more of the best of him in games. I know it’s a long way off but I think by next season he’ll be a standout player for us. Edited December 6, 2021 by alreadyexists 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 He does seem to give the ball away more than I'd like but there's no doubting he's the most technically gifted of what we have. As others have said, he's getting better with every game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Has he shown anything better than Traore last season? There have been glimpses but I certainly hope there's a lot more to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 (edited) I think he had another good game. Buendia is always looking to be direct and play a through-ball, he's fairly elusive with the ball at his feet too. Leicester are quite an aggressive team and committed alot of fouls (many of which the referee let go) so it was a tough game for him. Like others I'm confident he will be great for us. Edited December 6, 2021 by Zhan_Zhuang 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robby b Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 According to Whoscored his pass accuracy yesterday was 77% with 27 successful passes out of 35. Regarding those other 8, I've read comments by numerous people about him choosing risky, ambitious passes, including 'through balls', which sometimes come off and sometimes don't. Admittedly that is a risk and could cost us a goal sooner or later but will also get us some more goals, like McGinn's at Palace. People have praised him for his short pass accuracy, I guess he now needs to improve his long pass accuracy (more difficult). And I need to watch the full 90 tonight to make up my own mind about his overall performance v Leicester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 He was fine yesterday, he worked hard, dribbled well and tried to make things happen. His pass stats will be lower because of his position. KDB averages around 82% pass accuracy a season and is probably one of the lowest on the City team 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolta Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 He's been a massive part of the team for the last three games. He's finally impressed me in a Villa shirt. I'm surprised people are having a go tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenfly Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 12 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: Can I be honest? I expected him to be almost as good as Grealish! In all seriousness, I expected someone who kept the ball better and was a lot more silky. He has his attributes and positives in that he works hard and he is capable of some really intricate passes but he just gives the ball away too much and can be so wasteful. He can go from the downright awful to the sublime in the space of 10 seconds. Unfortunately, I think it’s more bad than good atm. I don't know if this is entirely serious given the rest of the comment, but I think we all forget how frustrating Grealish was at times. We defended him to the hilt because he was our golden boy, but he was often guilty of holding onto the ball for way too long and making baffling final decisions. But, we forgave him all that because that's exactly the sort of thing you want your main creative force doing. Even if it doesn't always come off for him, I want to see Emi continue to do things like this because frankly, somebody has to take risks of we want to be successful. Fortune favours the brave, etc. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Definitely a high risk player. When it works it looks great, when it doesn't its losing possession often in dangerous areas of the pitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Other Mat Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 The lad should be on at least 6 assists by now, that's on the other players who've missed those chances. He's put them on a plate for them, he's doing his job there. His link play can be superb and he was, again, involved in the majority of significant chances we had yesterday. Yeah he gives the ball away sometimes, but I want to see our attackers trying to thread passes and getting out forwards in 1 on 1, not just recycling the ball till their defenders are set again. Lads a passionate player and you can tell he really wants to do well here. People see his little outbursts when his performances are poor as a negative, I don't, it shows he's want to do better, you can't fault that in a player. We've had players in the past with big transfer tags come and play poorly, get there heads down, then never recover and just milk the club for money. I don't see that him, he wants to win and better himself. Even when he's below par he still works hard to get back, defend, press and to get on the ball again. I honestly think he'll prove a lot of people wrong. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Other Mat Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 16 minutes ago, Zatman said: He was fine yesterday, he worked hard, dribbled well and tried to make things happen. His pass stats will be lower because of his position. KDB averages around 82% pass accuracy a season and is probably one of the lowest on the City team Was going to post this then thought people would think I'm insane for comparing him to KDB. Haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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