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Player Cristian Romero

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Pathfinder said:
And you are clearly underestimating Haaland as a player. It was certainly not a key factor in Haaland playing poorly. His game is not based on being much-involved build-up during games at all. He's often had games with less than 10 touches.
But, yes, Romero did very well against Haaland. And yes I do like him being tough - but not without a good timing.
One key factor to Spurs' win was a huge blunder by Rodrigo and Kane took his chance.

It was not at all a special or skillful tackle, which was done in the 25th minute in CIty's half with no danger ahead at all, and then bragging about it by posting it on his Instagram account is really silly: it was a cowardly tackle that any defender could have done - it was not as if they went shoulder to shoulder and he outmuscled Haaland. And when refs see defenders posting "bounty tackles" on social media they may be "marked".
If any opposition defender had tackled Harry Kane that way, no Spurs fans would have been impressed.
A top defender will save his "possible yellow" in case of a dangerous situation that may occur (well, I know it didn't) and he was sent off with 10 minutes left to play.
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And a top attacker will at least get a touch in the oppos box or a shot on target over 90 minutes? No?

Football is chaos at the best of times if outcomes of tackles, dribbles etc could be predicted what’s the point of watching?

Romero rattled Halaand whether you chose to accept or not, it was quite calculated like Grealish hanging a leg. You say what a good defender would do, I counter with a ‘good’ referee wouldn’t allow a player to trip over legs for ninety minutes and get away with every single one. Kane tried a couple of times to about 1 in 3 success rate, Grealish 100 per cent

How this for clever, he serves a 1 game ban against Leicester, the yellow count starts again and he has a whole 10 days rest and prep for Milan
 
The Mercurial No.10 said:
Nothing fucking 'clever' at all about getting 2 completely avoidable cards resulting in a suspension at the business end of the season.
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you really dont understand football do you? fucing numpty! the first one was a statement to haaland and city, hes taking one for the team and it worked. the second one hes had to take stop grealish's momentum! one of your little weak links (davies) buckled under a bit of pressure and has played a hospital ball to PEH that grealish has pounced on. the sending off is on davies not romero. this is why you upgrade weak links. 5 out of 7 years in the CL and still going into big games with davies and dier making up part of the defence

romero is an unbelievable defender. good on the ball, aggressive, isnt clumsy, and calculates situations quick and deals with them playing the percentages well. fucking class, and the club is lucky to have a defender of this quality on its books.
 
We all knew Romero was a card risk. It was a known fact from his time in Italy and it hasn't changed since he came here.

I'm surprised he hasn't already been sent off and I'm surprised he managed to last until the death yesterday.


Flip that on it's head, I'm surprised how easily Haaland goes down for such a massive unit. The fact he drops like felled tree on first contact kinda made me smile when Romero chopped him in half.
Teams don't pull their punches on Kane, often his own countryment smash him even with internationals on the horizon.
 
Can't help feeling like the reactions to Romero's "clever" suspension would've been different if we conceded after going down to 10 men.
 
daveyboy88 said:
you really dont understand football do you? fucing numpty! the first one was a statement to haaland and city, hes taking one for the team and it worked. the second one hes had to take stop grealish's momentum! one of your little weak links (davies) buckled under a bit of pressure and has played a hospital ball to PEH that grealish has pounced on. the sending off is on davies not romero. this is why you upgrade weak links. 5 out of 7 years in the CL and still going into big games with davies and dier making up part of the defence
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*Fucking :levyeyes:
 
Romero is what happens when a fanbase is subjected to the likes of Sanchez & Dier for a dangerously long period of time

He's a decent player with a lot of potential

He's been and continues to be ridiculously overhyped by this fanbase , he has a way to go before he is even borderline world class , yet I continue to see people use that exact term to describe where he's at
 
WindRepairr said:
Romero is what happens when a fanbase is subjected to the likes of Sanchez & Dier for a dangerously long period of time

He's a decent player with a lot of potential

He's been and continues to be ridiculously overhyped by this fanbase , he has a way to go before he is even borderline world class , yet I continue to see people use that exact term to describe where he's at
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I like Romero, I think he has all the attributes to be a world class defender, but I don't know how people can ignore all the bozo moments he's had this season.
 
He does need to rein it in a bit but we're such a soft touch in defence, wingers can cut through us like butter, so I appreciate someone like him.

I've been watching him since from the Copa America onward, and he's an elite tackler, someone who can snuff out danger before it develops and his ability on the ball is good enough for any side in the league.
 
GGTH said:
Can't help feeling like the reactions to Romero's "clever" suspension would've been different if we conceded after going down to 10 men.
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It wasn’t clever. It was just far different than a pointless red card in the first half or early 2nd.

It was a late 2nd yellow on a deliberate attempt to tackle someone that only happened because we stupidly gave the ball away and then PEH missed a tackle.

I can see people being upset at the 1st yellow but can’t blame him for the 2nd.

grealish did what he does best and left his legs in there.
 
WindRepairr said:
Romero is what happens when a fanbase is subjected to the likes of Sanchez & Dier for a dangerously long period of time

He's a decent player with a lot of potential

He's been and continues to be ridiculously overhyped by this fanbase , he has a way to go before he is even borderline world class , yet I continue to see people use that exact term to describe where he's at
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Lots of things you are not allowed to say. Royal is not the worse Spurs player ever.
Romero is not world class
Hojbjerg needs to be upgraded for our progress
It's all true but various people will never accept it.
 
daveyboy88 said:
you really dont understand football do you? fucing numpty! the first one was a statement to haaland and city, hes taking one for the team and it worked. the second one hes had to take stop grealish's momentum! one of your little weak links (davies) buckled under a bit of pressure and has played a hospital ball to PEH that grealish has pounced on. the sending off is on davies not romero. this is why you upgrade weak links. 5 out of 7 years in the CL and still going into big games with davies and dier making up part of the defence

romero is an unbelievable defender. good on the ball, aggressive, isnt clumsy, and calculates situations quick and deals with them playing the percentages well. fucking class, and the club is lucky to have a defender of this quality on its books.
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Lost my shit when Davies played that ball.

Romero had to take the foul there.
 
WindRepairr said:
Romero is what happens when a fanbase is subjected to the likes of Sanchez & Dier for a dangerously long period of time

He's a decent player with a lot of potential

He's been and continues to be ridiculously overhyped by this fanbase , he has a way to go before he is even borderline world class , yet I continue to see people use that exact term to describe where he's at
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Overhyped or not, world class or not, that performance from Romero was world class and that pre-meditated tackle - that people are saying was stupid - was part of that world class performance.

He’s had rough patches of form this season but you take that performance on its own and that’s what gets people excited by him as a defender.

Haaland was the greatest striker in the world before that game and now they are saying he’s at the wrong team and hasn’t made city better. Romero was massively responsible for that.
 
GGTH said:
Can't help feeling like the reactions to Romero's "clever" suspension would've been different if we conceded after going down to 10 men.
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‘If’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting
If Harris didn’t fumble for Hojberg to pounce
If Mahrez shot went in not hit the bar
If VAR was it stupid self and call a pen on Hugo

Need I continue? None of these things happened

If Romero didn’t commit Grealish for that 2nd yellow and he ran through creating a 3 on 1 situation

If.
 
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