2020/21 Abdoulaye Doucouré

[TheBigIguana]

I mean you didn’t seem to notice that Doucoure and Delph were dropping into the full back positions when we had the ball..

I noticed it but to me that's just a midfield tactic and not the same as them playing full back. When we have the ball our fullbacks never take up that position. It is either unfilled or taken up by a CB drifting wide or CM coming back.

 

[Brendan Janus]

Gets about the pitch but hasn't got a clue with the ball at his feet, and his shooting is nothing short of pitiful !!

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

Gets about the pitch but hasn't got a clue with the ball at his feet, and his shooting is nothing short of pitiful !!

I seem to remember him scoring a few crackers for Watford. He has goals in him, I'd be surprised if he doesn't notch at least a couple for us this season.

 

[Brendan Janus]

I seem to remember him scoring a few crackers for Watford. He has goals in him, I'd be surprised if he doesn't notch at least a couple for us this season.

A couple, I remember when we had midfielders who scored between 5 & 10 a season !!

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

A couple, I remember when we had midfielders who scored between 5 & 10 a season !!

Wasn't that long ago we had defenders who notched 5+ goals a season (Coleman, Baines, Lescott, Watson)

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Particularly with Richarlison out, this guy needs to be driving into the penalty area regularly. Should be contributing 5 goals a season

 

[Brisan123]

He did that after Kenny went off. Which was the 77th minute. Aside from that he's played his position.

I have no idea what game you were watching but it certainly was not the Newcastle United versus Everton game played at St James park on Sunday 1st November 2020,if that is your opinion

 

[Lord Buckethead]

I noticed it but to me that's just a midfield tactic and not the same as them playing full back. When we have the ball our fullbacks never take up that position. It is either unfilled or taken up by a CB drifting wide or CM coming back.

Yup. Not his fault if that's how Don Carlo wants to protect us from the the counter.
People would complain if we left that space unguarded when the fulbacks came forward.

 

[Deulofeumygod]

Whole team played far too deep at the weekend. At least doucoure tried to get up the pitch and have a go. Still think he has been great for us.

 

[BlueToff]

Particularly with Richarlison out, this guy needs to be driving into the penalty area regularly. Should be contributing 5 goals a season

That's all well and good but on Sunday he was playing at right-back.

That's on Carlo, and on Sunday it was the perfect chance for him to be played in an advanced midfield role.

 

[BlueToff]

Whole team played far too deep at the weekend. At least doucoure tried to get up the pitch and have a go. Still think he has been great for us.

He's been a solid signing. The whole team has dropped off since the Brighton game - a combination of not having the squad and having injuries and niggles from playing 7 games in four weeks before the international break (and then our players traipsing around the world for that).

Doucoure was clearly instructed - like Delph on the other side - to play as full-back cover to allow Kenny to push up the other day. It didn't work at all and wasted our only midfielder with any ability of getting into the area at pace.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

That's all well and good but on Sunday he was playing at right-back.

That's on Carlo, and on Sunday it was the perfect chance for him to be played in an advanced midfield role.

Exactly. Jjk, with no pace to beat the fullback pushed ahead while doucoure sat back.

 

[BlueToff]

I noticed it but to me that's just a midfield tactic and not the same as them playing full back. When we have the ball our fullbacks never take up that position. It is either unfilled or taken up by a CB drifting wide or CM coming back.

Which is why it was so alien to the team.

I've just got his heatmap up on Opta.

We want him a) much more central and b) much more advanced

 

[Brisan123]

He's been a solid signing. The whole team has dropped off since the Brighton game - a combination of not having the squad and having injuries and niggles from playing 7 games in four weeks before the international break (and then our players traipsing around the world for that).

Doucoure was clearly instructed - like Delph on the other side - to play as full-back cover to allow Kenny to push up the other day. It didn't work at all and wasted our only midfielder with any ability of getting into the area at pace.

What you are saying is exactly what happened
How some lads cannot see this and think Delph and Doucoure were playing their normal positions is beyond me .
I said before the game that I thought Delph would start ahead of Nkounkou because I doubted that Carlo would play 2 FBs with little PL experience
While he started both he gave them license to attack but used Delph and Doucoure to cover them from the very start
This took away from the midfield
It was good in theory ,only problem was that Nkounkou and JJK were never able to get far up the pitch with the ball to feed DCL with crosses

 

[banno]

Great signing Doucoure. I like him a lot. Decent player