Davinson Sanchez

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Thought he was good tonight too. Would be so good to see him be the player we want him to be!

he's got pace and a he's a good tackler, not the best in the air though and has been bullied in the past by guys like Mitrovic and Carroll - big lumps basically.

If he can just work on the physical side of his game and as others have said - heading and distribution he could be really excellent.
 
Was once our most expensive signing in the club. Has gone backwards ever since. How our scouts decided to buy him instead of De Ligt I’ll never know.

Sell sell sell
 
Was once our most expensive signing in the club. Has gone backwards ever since. How our scouts decided to buy him instead of De Ligt I’ll never know.

Sell sell sell
Poch made some very poor transfer calls - Sanchez is up there but certainly not the worst
 
Was once our most expensive signing in the club. Has gone backwards ever since. How our scouts decided to buy him instead of De Ligt I’ll never know.

Sell sell sell
Unless my recollection is off, we tried to De Ligt and De Jong the same summer we got Sanchez, but Ajax were adamant in not letting them go, so we settled for Sanchez, funny how they weren't so fussed about him.

We went back in to get De Ligt and De Jong again, in the dreaded no transfer window, but were again rebuffed, there's an interview with De Jong after he went to Barca in which he said he'd considered Spurs seriously but felt he wasn't done at Ajax yet.
 
Poch made some very poor transfer calls - Sanchez is up there but certainly not the worst
All of Poch's good transfers happened in the first two years of his reign. The more he got control, the more expensive and shit our transfers got.

Even a relative success like Llorente cost us 15m + 100k/week in wages and left on a free.
 
Yep, literally he was not able to contain Championship attacking players.

Once let player run past him easily (and Aurier came to rescue what would have been goal)
Once absolutely misjudged the flight of the ball and we conceded from next situation (and VAR rescued us).

Sad to see. And what makes it more serious - he just keeps getting worse, not improving.
Remember, in his 1st season he was stating CB when we finished 3rd. He also started all of our CL games this season (when in the end we were knocked out by Juve). And now... can't even do job against Championship side.
 
He was in no way the problem tonight whoever played the same thing happens these tactics don't work in the EPL in 2021. All else is mute. The moment Son hits the post tge game was done.
Disagree.

For the goal, Sanchez came out of his position to defend, yet he got turned and past. Couldn't stop the cross coming in. When a center half has to step out, you expect him to break the play. If you can't win ball, or block, just foul. Center half is expected to deal with cross, when you come out, it leaves one less defender with physical presence in the box. Just break it up.

It's not a great mistake here, but enough to affect game. In this very game, you could see Dier threw himself to fulfill this tactical duty in similar situation. And Sanchez had same issues almost every time. Beside this, he hardly instill any assurance. There is a reason, team attacked more down this side of the pitch when he's playing, not only now under Mourinho.
 
Davinson sanchez plays because he is fast amd we can move the defensive line forward because of him and press better Eric and Toby play well together when we play deep against the big teams.

looking at it from a numbers perspective sanchez is Spurs all round best defender if you go to opta stats and compare those three he is clearly the best.

the reason why mourinho doesn’t like him is because instead of blocking the ball he tackles.
And from this he gives away way too many fouls from tackling compared to the other two. So potentially costing a penalty or a scorable freekick.

a big problem he has is that he has no left foot. The West Ham game is a clear example instead of clearing with his left foot he decides to head it away but messes up then own goal, he should have never been playing on the left side of central defence since then he hasn’t done. That game rocked his confidence.

if you give him a decent center half to play with he’ll be better. Potentially someone like skriniar or Eder militao
 
I think the person saying that if Toby puts in that performance he doesn't get criticised as much is absolutely correct BUT Sanchez has been doing it time and time again and IMO has regressed a lot this season. I've picked out a few instances from the game where his positioning and decision making was really poor to show this.

GOAL

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This is the goal, not entirely his fault but if Toby is in this position he would shuffle across to the area highlighted to close off the run earlier and allow one of Winks/Hojbjerg to drop in. Alternatively Dier could come across then Son drops in for the spare man on the far side. Failing to do this allows him to be in the situation to get beaten in a 1v1.

OTHER EXAMPLE 1

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In this passage of play he shows one of his worst habits, pushing up in sitatutions where he doesn't need to and allowing space in behind. Here he can either properly push up on Loftus-Cheek and win the ball, or stay put alongside Dier and let one of the midfielders handle it. He does neither, and gets caught in no mans land.

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That lapse in judgement allows this situation to develop, where Cavaleiro has acres of space to make a run into once Lookman gets the ball.

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Luckily for him here the ball wasn't quite up to scratch and he was able to use his pace to shut him off, but you can see with a better pass how this situation would have forced a goal.

OTHER EXAMPLE 2

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This is from a goal kick, again here he pushes up and loses out. For a player of his height and physicality, he really is horrendous in the air and ideally we should have Dier going up for this or one of the midfielders (at least then if Sissoko for example loses the aerial duel we aren't exposed at the back).


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On his way back into position here he is sidetracked by another little duel, again he should probably sit off and let one of the midfielders close him down but instead he goes into a duel he is never going to win and leaves Dier to come across - this leaves a huge gap between Dier and Reguilon so that Reid could have easily have pushed up and been in on goal.

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Luckily for this one Cavaleiro strayed offside but look how diabolical Sanchez's positioning is here as a result of his previous error. He leaves Dier out to dry and allows the runner in behind. Along with that he just ball watches and lets Lookman over his shoulder too.
 
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