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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #510 on: July 21, 2015, 08:09:47 AM »
Very happy with the news that Guzan stays as number one. Much better keeper than he gets credit for.

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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #511 on: July 21, 2015, 10:35:23 AM »
Very happy with the news that Guzan stays as number one. Much better keeper than he gets credit for.
News from where?

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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #513 on: July 21, 2015, 10:43:34 AM »
Good news all round.

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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #514 on: July 21, 2015, 11:06:01 AM »
...for opposition strikers ;)

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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #515 on: July 21, 2015, 11:09:00 AM »
If he is to be our first choice he has to put some serious work into kicking with his right foot.

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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #516 on: July 23, 2015, 01:32:33 AM »
Perfect timing to add a bit of fuel to the current fire. Brad has a rough night, US crash out of the Gold Cup...

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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #517 on: July 23, 2015, 01:45:43 AM »
You are still my No.1 for Villa, Brad.

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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #518 on: July 23, 2015, 01:48:18 AM »
Perfect timing to add a bit of fuel to the current fire. Brad has a rough night, US crash out of the Gold Cup...

The current configuration does not augur well.

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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #519 on: July 23, 2015, 08:46:00 AM »
If he is to be our first choice he has to put some serious work into kicking with his right foot.

If Brad's staying as first choice keeper, that explains why the 'centre halves running to the touchline so that the keeper has a short throw/pass available" system was being used against Swindon.

I don't like this scheme. It forces the centre midfield to drop deeper and allows the opposition to push forward

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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #520 on: July 23, 2015, 09:37:20 AM »
I have to say, the jury’s still out on Guzan for me. I don’t think he’s ever really kicked-on form the initial promise that he showed as Friedel’s under-study and, if anything, went backwards last year. He has all the tools required, physically, but it’s his decision making, particularly under-pressure that worries me and that kind of makes-or-breaks a keeper in my opinion.

It’s not even the mistake he made at City. A miss-kick can and will happen to all players, but watching the 15 or so seconds before that mistake highlights my issue with him. He’d already tried to play out from the back and it was apparent that both centre-backs were under pressure from Aguero and, with the ball returned to him for a second time, the logical thing was to clear his lines, not try to play it short again.

Admittedly, this was the only time it lead directly to a goal, but there were numerous times throughout the season when I found myself questioning what Guzan was trying to achieve with his distribution. I’m sure he’s under instruction to do this (whenever possible) from the coaching staff, but you still need you need your keeper to be able to make instant decisions in varying situations and I don’t think he’s very good at that.

People have suggested that we would have been relegated at some point over the past 3 seasons without Guzan. In my opinion you could have replaced Guzan with pretty much any other keeper in the division without negatively affecting our league position. If there aren’t noticeable improvements this season, I would fully expect Sherwood to keep looking for a longer-term solution.

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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #521 on: July 23, 2015, 09:55:35 AM »
People have suggested that we would have been relegated at some point over the past 3 seasons without Guzan. In my opinion you could have replaced Guzan with pretty much any other keeper in the division without negatively affecting our league position.

In Lambert's first season Guzan won both player of the year awards, and that was a season in which our striker scored 23 goals.

I reckon that if we'd had Wigan's keeper or Hull's keeper then they probably wouldn't have. And we would have been relegated.

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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #522 on: July 23, 2015, 10:20:02 AM »
People have suggested that we would have been relegated at some point over the past 3 seasons without Guzan. In my opinion you could have replaced Guzan with pretty much any other keeper in the division without negatively affecting our league position.

In Lambert's first season Guzan won both player of the year awards, and that was a season in which our striker scored 23 goals.

I reckon that if we'd had Wigan's keeper or Hull's keeper then they probably wouldn't have. And we would have been relegated.
There were a lot of games that Guzan kept us in, particularly those first two seasons under Lambert. The defence was parting like the red sea. He has played with absolute toss in front of him for most of his playing time at the club.

I still think he's a quality keeper and one of our best players. He had a sticky spell but he'll be okay. Lets sort out our defence, midfield and buying two strikers before we fanny around replacing a perfectly good goalkeeper.

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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #523 on: July 23, 2015, 10:38:49 AM »
Hull were in the Championship that season and Ali Al Habsi was Wigan's number 1, a keeper who was quite highly rated at the time. Joel Robles was their second choice (and FA cup-winning) keeper, now at Everton.

Incidentally (and I can't load the video so can't comment further) it sounds like Guzan was involved in another distribution-related incident in last night's USA Gold Cup defeat to Jamaica.

http://www.mlssoccer.com/goldcup/2015/news/article/2015/07/23/usmnt-surprised-fateful-handball-call-brad-guzan-gold-cup-upset-loss

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Re: The Brad Guzan Appreciation thread.
« Reply #524 on: July 23, 2015, 10:45:28 AM »
I can't think of a good keeper who hasn't had a rough spell at some time. It would be a massive gamble to get rid of Brad on the off-chance that he'll be the next Scott Carson rather than Brad Friedel.

 


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