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Kyle Walker-Peters

Raziel said:
Said it in match thread, I was at the ground, really didn't think he had a good game.

Let me explain, he had a lot (a hell of a lot) of the ball, but wasn't particularly effective with it, played a few nice training ground triangle passing with teammates, but nothing that opened Villa up.

Second half what I saw was Villa retreated even further and Sissoko (to your point went wider than KWP, first half he was part of the cover for KWP) and helped stretch, not sure I give credit there.

The part that worried me was Villa often tried to get out on his side, aerial ball to the man he was facing and he looked very indecisive about attack or stand off. I also don't feel when he is shoulder to shoulder running back he's going to recover the ball.

Hope he proves me wrong, but I'd be really worried if he plays 20 games this season ...
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I hear you on the last part. I think he's a tidy footballer, but he's not a top athlete like a lot of fullbacks these days. That means he's got to be really astute defensively as he hasn't got that Kyle Walker pace to get back and make up for his mistake. He might come on really well this year or go no further, but I guess we have to try him out to know.
 
He's still improving so there's still hope. I like his quick feet and thinking. Those two attributes can to a long way for any football player. He must be over the moon keeping aurier out of the squad.

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spurspinter1 said:
Better than getting a hatrick of assists against Bournemouth? I'd also say his MOM performance season opener against Saudi Sportswashing Machine was more eye catching, did well yesterday though for sure.
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I thought he was a lot braver then he has previously been, as i say i think its was his best game so far. All about opinions though. :)
 
Thought there were some positives and he will have easier games. Technically he is a good footballer and backed himself to go past Sterling on a couple of occasions, has to learn his lessons on the defensive side though which is why I think he would have benefited from a season long loan a couple of seasons ago.
Teams will target his side but I think he could impose himself on some weaker teams as he gains confidence and experience.
 
I thought he was really good. Annoying that the goal was conceded but I blame Sissoko for not getting closer to Gundogan who had gambled forward, giving Kyle 3 players almost in his zone to deal with.

But his overall game was strong. He’s very confident on the ball. He can play out of tight spots. He needed to give a performance yesterday that suggested he was ready and I think he did that, and will keep going.
 
I’ve been critical of him, but I thought he played well overall. I still fear he has a lack of pace / acceleration that will limit his potential, but maybe he can learn to work around that. Indeed, he got destroyed for pace by Sterling on one occasion early in the game yesterday, but then it didn’t really seem to happen again. His awareness of what’s over his shoulder from crosses also seems poor, but maybe that’s something he can work on.
 
BrainOfLevy said:
I thought he was really good. Annoying that the goal was conceded but I blame Sissoko for not getting closer to Gundogan who had gambled forward, giving Kyle 3 players almost in his zone to deal with.
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I also did blame him initially for the first goal but then realised I was wrong. It was simply an outstanding goal! As the ball is played to de Briyne, KWP is in exactly the right position. Every other midfielder on the planet would have controlled the pass, looked up and delivered the cross. That second or two would have allowed KWP to have a look back, see Sterling behind him and adjust his position to cover. However de Bruyne's first time cross made that impossible, not to mention his telepathic understanding with Sterling who started his sprint even before the ball reached the midfielder, There are times where you have to take your hat off to a brilliant goal - this was one of them.
 
Nah, every goal can be traced back to a mistake by the defending team, a dropped run, a missed tackle, a lazy close. Unless it’s straight from the kick off they have turned the ball over too.
 
galeforce said:
Nah, every goal can be traced back to a mistake by the defending team, a dropped run, a missed tackle, a lazy close. Unless it’s straight from the kick off they have turned the ball over too.
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Of course it can... but that's a very simplistic notion and fails to treat footballers as humans rather than machines. If there was a fault, it was in letting de Bruyne deliver the cross - so fingers will need to be pointed at Eriksen who was closest to him. Now I have been critical of Eriksen's performance in his thread but I would not really place too much blame for this. As Silva is attacking the right side. Eriksen is within reasonable distance of de Bruyne. However the Belgian takes a couple of steps back into space, taking out Eriksen and then compounds it with that cross! It's just a case of an unplayable world class player, and you have to accept that. If there is a person to blame in my book it is Poch who did not assign a player to man mark him throughout the game.
 
Think he did ok, much better than Rose, considering who he was against he was good.

The Foyth injury could be the making of him
 
Good game overall considering.
Also, a big vote of confidence that Poch started him. Unless something drastic happens re form, injury etc, it seems his next stop re playing away from home will be at the Emirates....fingers crossed he is as competent and steady there also (just the matter of Saudi Sportswashing Machine beforehand, i know...)
 
It seems clear that Poch looks at KWP as his number one RB this season:

Pochettino added: “I don’t like to complain but when Kyle Walker was at Tottenham and we sold him to City for £55m two years ago, Kyle Walker-Peters was a kid. Now we’ve sold Kieran Trippier and Kyle Walker-Peters [now 22] is playing. Maybe he was the fourth, fifth option when Kyle Walker was here so it’s important people realise we’re building players and that they’re still young."
 
we're stuck with kwp until the transfer window reopens.
good to see that poch has faith in kwp - trust him I guess.

but like with tripper I think he will go if poch finds a better alternative... slightly different from when he first came and there was no option but to rely on youth development.

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He's really no worse than Trippier defensively, possibly slightly better from what we've seen so far. Definitely better athletically and running with the ball, having a lot more confidence in taking people on. It remains to be seen whether he will ultimately be good enough but so far not bad.

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