2025/26 James Tarkowski

Villa clean sheet
Fulham clean sheet (Keane goal btw)
Man United clean sheet

What's your point, exactly?

My point is that Tarkowski has been plop all season, irrespective of whether Keane is or not. Keane's had an okay season compared to the rest of the defence. He wasn't great today. Doesn't absolve Tarkowski of his gaffes though.
Point is that with Michael Keane in the side the team statistically conceded nearly twice as many goals.
 
Defensive performances are reliant on CB pairings. Tarks had a bad game. But I judge the game based on the pairing. And I know for a fact that Tarks is infinitely more solid next to Jared or even Jake.

Keane just ain't it, you can't avoid the fact that the team ALWAYS ships more goals with him in the team statistically.

It's not just direct mistakes, it's positioning, its how they cover for eachother, it's the confidence they give eachother, etc
 
Does my head in a bit when ppl blame Keane when he is crap, just does not work like that. Is he not responsible for his own performance???


We have not really seen keane with branthwaite….i would bet lots of what I dont have that he looks good next to him.

Tarky aint it, he is just not.

Crap at passing, very slow and terrible discipline….red card, free kick waiting to happen.

Decent positioning, good fitness….nice lad.

But ob and branthwaite are the 2.
 
He has been fantastic since he came here. A brilliant signing, always available, has already nurtured JB into a beast and could do the same with Jake if was given the chance to play together in the middle more. He has always had a couple of games a year were he starts bad, makes mistakes, gets in fights, bites his shirt after mistakes and gets bailed out by Pickford. He can’t recover mid-game. The next week he will be great again.

Sadly he’s had more of those games this season than previous seasons added together. Only one reason for that. Same reason the worlds greatest ever CB over the park has started being shown up more often.
 
Does my head in a bit when ppl blame Keane when he is crap, just does not work like that. Is he not responsible for his own performance???


We have not really seen keane with branthwaite….i would bet lots of what I dont have that he looks good next to him.

Tarky aint it, he is just not.

Crap at passing, very slow and terrible discipline….red card, free kick waiting to happen.

Decent positioning, good fitness….nice lad.

But ob and branthwaite are the 2.

I've seen this said a few times lately. He's been sent off once in his entire career. So that's just not true, he knows what he's doing there.

He had a stinker today and he's not had his best season so far by a long way. It will be interesting to see what pairing Moyes picks when all 4 CBs are fully fit
 
Still don’t understand why he was bollocking Tim for the first goal, when he was the who played a bad pass to him with two players around him.
As an aside, notice the difference in us making an error, ball quickly played in and to a striker who made a good run and composed finish. We’d have had Grealish want to beat his man 3 times and Barry reading his Boys Own “How to play football”
 

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