Boubacar Kamara

[LeeB]

He has a lovely little feint where he looks about to pass but then changes direction, it's subtle but he did it a few times last night and it opens up the pitch.

I keep thinking back to after Emerey's first game against Man Utd. Went for a drink after and met up with my mate's wife who was with a French couple. They guy was a big Marseille fan and I started with saying how Sansom had got some rare minutes and he waved that talk off and just wanted to talk about how good Kamara was ('world class' were his words).

At that point he was injured and had only played a few games under Gerrard, but it's clear now that this guy was spot on.

[Risso]

I think his biggest attribute is his ability to buy himself time on the ball. He never seems flustered, even with two or more opposition players around him. And whether facing up the pitch or looking at our goal, he always seems to know where our players are.

[Dave]

I think his biggest attribute is his ability to buy himself time on the ball. He never seems flustered, even with two or more opposition players around him. And whether facing up the pitch or looking at our goal, he always seems to know where our players are.

And I think that brings up the confidence levels of everyone else as well. I bet the players who are really good at playing out from the press (Torres / Digne / Tielemans) see Kamara there as part of that group and feel so much more comfortable with him there to do that. So they're more likely to do something more high risk / reward than they are with the players who aren't so good at it (Cash / DC / Konsa / Onana) with the confidence that it's not going to blow up in their face.

[AV82EC]

Hes quite frankly a Rolls Royce of a player, his command of his position and ability to think is superb, god we missed him but he was very good last night in that massively underrated way which people miss.

[Brend'Watkins]

We can feel disappointed with the result last night but we can equally feel upbeat about his performance. He’s what we’ve been missing. Class act is Kamara.

[SaddVillan]

BoubaCALM Kamara.

[Mister E]

Apart from a couple of wayward passes around and in the Juve area, he was very classy and I can see him forming a perfect partnership with Onana if the Belgian can ever get fit.

[Bobby Boy]

We really saw what we have been missing yesterday and how he dramatically improves our midfield.

He is classy and silky on the ball, yes, and is calm in possession, yes, but what I really liked was how he continuously sniffed out danger and stuck like glue to Juve players in possession to prevent them from playing balls through the lines.

Palace and multiple other teams would not have found it so easy to play against us had Kamara been playing.

Our most important player other than Martinez.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I think his biggest attribute is his ability to buy himself time on the ball. He never seems flustered, even with two or more opposition players around him. And whether facing up the pitch or looking at our goal, he always seems to know where our players are.

Last night it got to the stage where the Juve players wouldn't even bother pressing him as they knew they were wasting their time. So good to have him back.

[Risso]

He now just needs to get his one, really, really piss poor game out of his system, where everything goes wrong and he looks like the reincarnation of Mark Kinsella. Then he can get back to being brilliant for the rest of the season.

[caster troy]

I'm convinced that if Kamara hadn't been injured last season we'd have won the Conference league and stayed in the title mix for a lot longer. For me he is our most important player after Martinez, we don't have a replacement for what he can do and as soon as he is removed from the team the whole system has to compensate for it. I really really hope we can keep him fit for the rest of the season.

[Rigadon]

I am certain that once he's been back and injury free fro a couple of weeks, he will be the player that this season's 'for sale' rumours will be about.  My guess is it will be Man City.

[LeeB]

I'm convinced that if Kamara hadn't been injured last season we'd have won the Conference league and stayed in the title mix for a lot longer. For me he is our most important player after Martinez, we don't have a replacement for what he can do and as soon as he is removed from the team the whole system has to compensate for it. I really really hope we can keep him fit for the rest of the season.

Ramsey as well, we miss the fully fit version of him a lot.

[Chris Smith]

I'm convinced that if Kamara hadn't been injured last season we'd have won the Conference league and stayed in the title mix for a lot longer. For me he is our most important player after Martinez, we don't have a replacement for what he can do and as soon as he is removed from the team the whole system has to compensate for it. I really really hope we can keep him fit for the rest of the season.

I agree and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Doug’s form dipped when he was injured.

[paul_e]

I think it is worth noting that Onana does a lot of similar things and we started the season very well. Having neither of them properly fit for the last 5-6 weeks has really hurt us.