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Player Cristian Romero

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daveyboy88 said:
yea he got beat for their goal. the reason we was even in that position was due to an actual weak link giving away a stupid freekick in a dangerous area..eventually even the strong links break when they are stressed time and time again.

literally a CB's nightmare with how we started the second half, both full backs utter shit, then you got little weasel winks in front of you as protection and the pivot to the team....STRESS
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It's embarassing how we found ourselves defending cross after cross just like Man City.

Romero was weak on the header, no question about it, but it was one moment out of a 90 min game in which we had zero control of the opposition.
 
I was unsure at first but it's absolutely clear now that Davies is the one that needs replacing over Dier.

2 of our 3 CBs currently are piss poor at defending set pieces. Romero has done a lot of promising things but he can't defend set pieces and his positioning is pretty bad.

I said before I wasn't completely sold on him like most are but he does have potential.
 
He does loads right and is great fun to watch and then he seems to make a mistake which leads directly to a goal pretty much every game.

Honestly? He reminds me of Eric Bailly when he first arrived at United. Fans loved his tenacity too. Is Romero better? I hope so. But there’s so much to work on still with him, this isn’t the 42m ready to go CB we paid for.
 
The Mercurial No.10 said:
We lost because of the goal we conceded, 1-0.

He was overly focused on the fucking ball instead of the man behind him again.
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You know almost every goal that is scored is due to an error. If every player was perfect then every match would end 0-0. A team with Son/Kane should you would hope be able to muster a single goal or more vs Burnley. Conceding one isn't the sole or main issue. Pipe.
 
Vertonghen made quite a few mistakes in his first season that led to goals and he was a couple of years older than Romero. Having said that being beaten to headers on a semi regular basis is a hell of a weak spot for a centre back. Every club will know this and target it now.
 
anderton46 said:
You know almost every goal that is scored is due to an error. If every player was perfect then every match would end 0-0. A team with Son/Kane should you would hope be able to muster a single goal or more vs Burnley. Conceding one isn't the sole or main issue. Pipe.
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We lost because of that goal we conceded, not because not scoring.

On Romero, his passing was very poor last night and on another day the crunching (and fair) challenge he made after losing the ball poorly is possibly half a second later and he gets a other silly booking or worse.

He has qualities, but honestly I think he is being overrated by a fair few on here who would tear lumps out of Dier at any opportunity. His awareness and discipline have to improve as does his decision making and passing, especially on the right as he is making forays forward, which are both pointless and dangerous if he loses the ball cheaply and puts us in the shit.

Now my favourite for a card bet by some margin. We've no-one better than him for the position, but he needs to learn from his mistakes quickly if he's going to end up a really top class player.
 
KaneIsAble said:
It's embarassing how we found ourselves defending cross after cross just like Man City.

Romero was weak on the header, no question about it, but it was one moment out of a 90 min game in which we had zero control of the opposition.
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I coulsn't get my head round City's tactics, pumping in crosses without a recognised striker was something you'd expect from a Primary school football team, not the favourites for the ECL. Romero has struggled with crosses and positioning all season, and he's a typical big money Spurs "Success" he's about an 80% accomplished player, just the 20% often rears it's ugly head.

The Mee/Rodriguez miss he was truely awful at. He looked like he simply hadn't a clue.
 
Doc said:
Nico Schlotterbeck would be the one.. have a feeling he's on a Bayern trajectory though.
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Yes, unfortunately, it looks as if Bayern is his destination.

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Rocket said:
I think the header was an exceptionally difficult situation for him. Looked like the wind just held the ball up at the last moment and because he was going backwards and toward his own goal he couldn’t react as quick as Mee who got the jump on him.

Not sure why Conte has him drifting forward to play as an auxiliary CF at times. He doesn’t appear to have any composure in the opponents box. I mean maybe he’s the best we have for the job, but I’d say it’s a shit tactic as it looks like he can’t even finish his dinner. Let alone finish a chance in the premier league.

Overall thought he was half decent tonight.
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Ok, to some this may sound like a bad loser attitude, but Mee did use his left harm to hold Romero down. No, it was not so obvious but for sure strong enough to push Romero off balance and smart enough for the ref/VAR not to bother. Still, Romero should have done better though and challenged Mee stronger.
Spurs conceded 2 goals vs Soton from almost the exact position and situation so it looks as if this is the weak spot in Spurs' defense right now
 
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The Mercurial No.10 said:
We lost because of that goal we conceded, not because not scoring.

On Romero, his passing was very poor last night and on another day the crunching (and fair) challenge he made after losing the ball poorly is possibly half a second later and he gets a other silly booking or worse.

He has qualities, but honestly I think he is being overrated by a fair few on here who would tear lumps out of Dier at any opportunity. His awareness and discipline have to improve as does his decision making and passing, especially on the right as he is making forays forward, which are both pointless and dangerous if he loses the ball cheaply and puts us in the shit.

Now my favourite for a card bet by some margin. We've no-one better than him for the position, but he needs to learn from his mistakes quickly if he's going to end up a really top class player.
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First time i've agreed with you on anything

He definitely has potential but he's very much an unfished product. He's very raw with loads of talent.

He will need to mature and be more disciplined to make it in the Premier League over the long run.
 
The Mercurial No.10 said:
We lost because of that goal we conceded, not because not scoring.

On Romero, his passing was very poor last night and on another day the crunching (and fair) challenge he made after losing the ball poorly is possibly half a second later and he gets a other silly booking or worse.

He has qualities, but honestly I think he is being overrated by a fair few on here who would tear lumps out of Dier at any opportunity. His awareness and discipline have to improve as does his decision making and passing, especially on the right as he is making forays forward, which are both pointless and dangerous if he loses the ball cheaply and puts us in the shit.

Now my favourite for a card bet by some margin. We've no-one better than him for the position, but he needs to learn from his mistakes quickly if he's going to end up a really top class player.
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As of now, he's miles away from being even a very good defender in my books. He just has too many weaknesses, the main one being his inability to deal with high balls. It's actually scary how bad he is at it.

Really not worth the 42 mil. You'd think we'd have learned from the Sanchez experiment
 
Jaynola said:
As of now, he's miles away from being even a very good defender in my books. He just has too many weaknesses, the main one being his inability to deal with high balls. It's actually scary how bad he is at it.

Really not worth the 42 mil. You'd think we'd have learned from the Sanchez experiment
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I don't get how someone can watch Romero play, ignore all the good/great plays he made that we see from none of our other defenders, focus on one negative play and claim he isn't every good. It really is mind blowing.

He is so far above every other CB we have it isn't even close. He isn't perfect, not sure any CB in the world is, but he is also far from the problem. He is the one piece at CB, maybe the whole back line, that is worth keeping to build around.
 
JDK said:
He's a superb player in the air by every metric, he was first among Serie A defenders in aerial duals won last season. He leads Spurs in aerial duals won this season.

You can't win every header and sometimes you lose one that costs your team dearly. That's just football, it happens.

I highly doubt it is a long term issue.
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Superb in the air?
He lets the Burnley centre half have a 5 yard run on him for the goal he was shocking for their goal last night.
The ball travelled at least 50 yards and he was beaten with ease hardly elite defending
 
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