Jordan Amavi - gone again

[PeterWithesShin]

There's only one Jordan Amavi.

[Colhint]

Wile E Kouyaté ‏@tomvictor  Aug 14
do Villa have a chant to the tune of Eiffel 65's 'Blue' that goes "Veretout Amavi Gana Gueye, Amavi Gana Gueye"? If not, why not?

brilliant

[Louzie0]

He's rather good, isn't he?

[paul_e]

He's rather good, isn't he?

He was superb for most of the game today (he made a couple of mistakes and tired later on) I think he'll prove to be an absolute bargain.

[PeterWithesShin]

Yep, he's going to become a superb player.

[eamonn]

If he can curb his enthusiasm when defending  he'll prove to be the dogs wotsits.

[KRS]

Got the feeling he'd been instructed to not press on so much this afternoon...there were times when he was available wide left on the half way line and just needed to be put through, but he didn't make any attempt to show for the ball, make a run and team mates seemed to ignore the fact that he literally had the whole of the Sunderland half to run into. Really not sure why particularly at the times when he was unmarked and wouldn't have been caught out of position if he'd been played in.

[paul_e]

Got the feeling he'd been instructed to not press on so much this afternoon...there were times when he was available wide left on the half way line and just needed to be put through, but he didn't make any attempt to show for the ball, make a run and team mates seemed to ignore the fact that he literally had the whole of the Sunderland half to run into. Really not sure why particularly at the times when he was unmarked and wouldn't have been caught out of position if he'd been played in.

My guess would be that it was because he was tiring, he looked fucked on about 80 minutes.

[KRS]

Fair comment but I was actually talking about the first half...there were a few times when Amavi and Gueye had the opportunity to work a move down the left with acres of space ahead of them but it was almost as if there was an invisible wall preventing them from attacking down the left. Sure enough, when we finally attack down the left we score just before half time.

[Toronto Villa]

I'm going to enjoy watching him and Jack in the same side. They might take the royal piss out of a few opposing RB's.

[passitsideways]

It's proper heart-in-mouth stuff when he does those stepovers high up the pitch or when he charges out of position in a fit of overenthusiasm but on the whole he looks a splendid talent.

[Pat McMahon]

At the moment he looks better going forward than defending. As well as giving away the free kick for their goal today he let their number 17 get behind him really cheaply a few minutes later.

French mates told me he he is good and fast but prone to positional errors. Based on today and Palace I would agree, but he looks like potentially like our best signing this summer to me.

[PeterWithesShin]

Worth remembering that Kev is only 21 and only played about 60 league games in his career. For someone pretty inexperienced he looks a potentially great signing.

[Toronto Villa]

Kev?

[Risso]

He's superb.  Doesn't seem to have any weaknesses to his game, and has that great ability all good full backs have to get up and down the line without leaving gaps for the opposition to expose.