Pau Torres

[Demitri_C]

God bailey ffs

What a stupid yellow

[Bobby Boy]

Pau is a classy, stylish, ball-playing defender with a great eye for a pass but he struggles with the physical side of the game. Any striker who puts himself about is likely to get the better of Pau. We've seen it a few times this season already.

[Mellin]

There is clearly a trade off with Torres. Quality on the ball for occasionally suspect defending.

[Toronto Villa]

Unai Emery: "Pau Torres needs to be stronger in his duels with his opponent. But he knows. We are working on it and he reacted fantastic after the goal."

Unai sees what we see. And Pau did play a lot better after. Pau for me is a brilliant defender in European competition because the physicality isn’t as evident. It’s much more a technical requirement and he’s don’t so well in both games. Mings in certain games should be used instead of him. Pau of course is outstanding in bringing the ball out. Right now we have 4 really good options at CB with Diego finding some form.

[pauliewalnuts]

There is clearly a trade off with Torres. Quality on the ball for occasionally suspect defending.

Yeah, lack of strength (although Rodri said not that long ago that he put a ton of bulk on when he came here, and that he could see Pau Torres having to do the same), but then you get shit like a ball that doesn't just split the defence, it splits the entire team for Duran's goal against Bayern, and it's far from the first time he's done that.

I acknowledge his weaknesses, but he's a fantastic footballer.

[Monty]

Yeah, 'good on the ball' doesn't nearly cover how important he is to our game.

[PaulWinch again]

Just a bit. He’s essential, doesn’t mean he won’t make mistakes. But he’s a brilliant player.

[VillaTim]

In fairness after the early mistake he didn't put a foot wrong .
Traore was kept very quiet today .

[Mellin]

Yeah, 'good on the ball' doesn't nearly cover how important he is to our game.

You could argue I was being generous with "occasionally suspect" too. I like Torres a lot, but didn't want to be sensationalist either way. There's enough of that about these days.

[Demitri_C]

Even with the mistake i thought after that he was very good as was carlos

[VillaTim]

Wonder if more teams will try that over the top ball now against us

[eye digress]

Plenty already are - Everton was a good example. Ironically, the same or a similar tactic to that which we used against Bayern.

[RamboandBruno]

There is clearly a trade off with Torres. Quality on the ball for occasionally suspect defending.

Yeah, lack of strength (although Rodri said not that long ago that he put a ton of bulk on when he came here, and that he could see Pau Torres having to do the same), but then you get shit like a ball that doesn't just split the defence, it splits the entire team for Duran's goal against Bayern, and it's far from the first time he's done that.

I acknowledge his weaknesses, but he's a fantastic footballer.

Spot on.
I said to some friends over a half time pint during the Bayern game, that Torres looked completely at home in that company. He’s just a brilliant footballer and a defender the likes of which we have never probably seen. Not saying he’s the best defender we’ve had aka God, but we i have never seen a ball playing CB like him at Villa.
The pass for Durans goal gets better every time i watch it, it was practically eye of the needle stuff through about two or three sets of players.
Along with Emi and Ollie, first name on the team sheet.

[OCD]

His thread seems to have disappeared but I thought Diego Carlos has had 3 excellent games back to back now too. Hopefully he carries on like that when he plays.

[Border villan]

Two back to back, three in a row unless you are a contortionist.