Baptism by hellfire but he did well.
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Ex-Spurs Player Joe Rodon
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As he said 2 mistakes but he didn't look out of place.
We also need to remember CBs (and GKs) are the last to mature and peak in football. at such a young age, at such an important stage he's prone to make tiny errors. It's the next three years that will say if he'll go down the Toby path or the Sanchez one. Overall I'm positive about him
We are still yet to concede a goal when Rodon is playing CB! 
I thought he looked ungainly and uncomfortable and yet did his job really well, overall.
He's maybe just someone who moves in a slightly different way from what you'd expect of a footballer. A few times today it looked like he was going to make an arse of something and then he did exactly the right thing.
An encouraging enough full debut for him.
He's maybe just someone who moves in a slightly different way from what you'd expect of a footballer. A few times today it looked like he was going to make an arse of something and then he did exactly the right thing.
An encouraging enough full debut for him.
Tanganga > Rodon
I don’t want to appear mean but think there are questions. Losing the ball from which they scored their offside goal can happen and doesn’t overly faze me.
The header to Lloris was misjudged and hopefully won’t be repeated. My main concern is the two crosses which Abraham beat him to. I thought that he was signed in part because he is good in the air. If he had been beaten to the header by Giroud I could forgive this (Giroud is world class at headers), however I expected him to do better than Abraham in the air, and think this will take some time to coach him into improving this aspect of his game.
At the moment I would have more faith in Tanganga rather than Rodon if Toby is out injured
The header to Lloris was misjudged and hopefully won’t be repeated. My main concern is the two crosses which Abraham beat him to. I thought that he was signed in part because he is good in the air. If he had been beaten to the header by Giroud I could forgive this (Giroud is world class at headers), however I expected him to do better than Abraham in the air, and think this will take some time to coach him into improving this aspect of his game.
At the moment I would have more faith in Tanganga rather than Rodon if Toby is out injured
What has being blown away got to do with anything?
The guy said he thought there "is a player in there", not that he's a CB-god.
If the last few pages of this thread are anything to go by then abso-fuckin'-lutely!
It's strange isn't it; you'd expect these expert critics to know this, wouldn't you....?
You think 6ft Tanganga is gonna be better in the air than 6ft 3 Rodon? And more importantly, you think Mourinho does? Even when he's already told us he thinks Tanganga is a full back?
I think I can easily explain this for you....
The quality of opposition is of a higher standard than anything he's ever faced before. He's taken a step up from being a championship also-ran to being thrust into a top of the table EPL battle. He'll need to acclimatise.
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We bought a player from the championship and we question his performance on his first start in possibly the most difficult PL match he can have ? TFC can be a tough audience.
Made a couple of mistakes which could have cost us but for most of the time a very solid performance.
Will need time to learn PL and improve, but a decent start : we knew we were not buying the finished player so that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone
Made a couple of mistakes which could have cost us but for most of the time a very solid performance.
Will need time to learn PL and improve, but a decent start : we knew we were not buying the finished player so that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone
Really wasn't a decent performance at all...
He had 3 big chances created.... for the opposition. On a different day, Chelsea would have scored 3 goals just off of Rodon's mistakes and we would have been fuming.
If this was a "decent" performance, I'd like to know what a poor performance is.
I'm not saying he can't be a good player, but he absolutely had a dreadful performance.
He improved as the game went on, but he had a few potentially catastrophic mistakes. He also looked poor / nervous on the ball.
He has some real potential and I expect him to be quite a bit better in two years. I wouldn’t start him in another big game this season.
New defensive partnership keep clean sheet away against Chelsea and it’s a poor performance ? Log off you melts! 
Kept a clean sheet against one of the best attacks in the division? a dreadful performance?
If you must troll at least make it half decent ....
A poor performance is when you let the opposition score six - see Man Utd v Spurs for help on how not to defend. Are you sure you understand football?