His performance against Arsenal surely signals the end of his QPR career. I presume Harry was referring to him when he referred to criminal defending. He made no effort to get near to Sanchez for the first goal after clearly seeing him making a move into space. As for his challenge that gave away the penalty......
I'm a big fan of Traore but his performance and overall effort were indefensible (unlike most of the play that he should have defended). He still has a future IMO but not before an inquest and being read the riot act. I do imagine there's a few awful Boxing Day displays throughout history but he stood out in a sluggish team effort.
He can't help it, but he gives the appearance of being incredibly thick, and he certainly can't concentrate for 90 minutes. Wenger is very wedded to lost causes, (witness: Bendtner) but even he gave up on him. Being a fast runner does not make you a professioal footballer. But he's scammed a living at it. Now Warnock has been found out for the fourth time as not being up to the top league, doubt even Palace will take Traore off our hands.
Surely that riot act must have been read a few times. He was plain awful, and needs to be shipped out ASAP.
Blimey. Not too much of this Traore out agenda before yesterday. I guess the orthopedic clinics are overrun with straw related spinal injuries. I may well be a blinkered admirer but I have seen him do well for us (even at left back) and think he can still do a job (moreso when given a run in the side).
Awful for the penalty and the goal. Otherwise played well IMO. Made two smashing tackles not long after conceding the penalty. Because of his two big mistakes, overall he'd only get a five out of ten for me.
I actually quite like Traore as a player - but playing wide left (or right) rather than as a left back He can deliver a good cross and is fast and can beat a player Yesterday he was left very exposed a number of times by Kranky refusing to do the necessary tracking back / tackling The worst player for us yesterday had to be Mutch - totally ineffective tackling and must be brilliant at knowing where the ball was about to go given the number of times he ran away from it
I don't think so - he let us have him after this match:- Man Utd 8 - 2 Arsenal (28 August 2011) http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/14606020
Mitch was fine, actually. His sense of space is good. The problem is that nobody sees him so he's left standing. That's the team's problem - not enough confidence on the ball to get a vision. At least he wasn't as blanked as Henry was. He was a ghost yesterday and Harry pulled him for good reason. Kranky is ok on the ball, but he's just not fast enough to stretch his legs to get tackles in.
He's a left back, with his lack of ball control never a midfield player. He had a bad game today but had been doing well before Harry dropped him for Yun who is no better athan all.
