Pau Torres

[PaulWinch again]

Sounds like broken metatarsal, not great but better than feared.

[Ian.]

Sounds like broken metatarsal, not great but better than feared.

Isn’t that quite a lengthy absence?

[Somniloquism]

6-8 weeks depending on whether he gets Ramsey complications.

[Hillbilly]

6-8 weeks depending on whether he gets Ramsey complications.

Checks name of club.

Yes there will be complications. Out for the season.

[aj2k77]

His injury might force us to improve our donkey defence.

[Dante Lavelli]

Right now I think we need a spell of Mings organising the defence. Any injury to Paul might be a blessing.

They’re all fantastic players individually but collectively we are weak.  Mings might sort that out.

[PaulWinch again]

His injury might force us to improve our donkey defence.

Only if you assume it’s just a personnel issue, which it isn’t, at least not in entirety. Clearly that’s at play (see Konsa tonight). But every single defender has shown they can be very good - in spite of some of the narratives floating around - but the problem is that the defensive system within the team just is not functioning. We end up playing like a load of individuals defending, rather than a team and it’s why individual mistakes are getting punished so much. If you have a functional system a lot of those individual errors get swallowed up - not all, but enough that with the amount of goals we do score it shouldn’t matter. We just don’t look like we’re coached around how to defend.

[aldridgeboy]

Totally agree with this

[brontebilly]

The ease in which their forward stepped inside him tonight was embarrassing I thought. Very unfortunate injury but just the opportunity Mings needed.

[KevinGage]

His injury might force us to improve our donkey defence.

We've apparently got that young Turkish left sided CB coming in in Jan. 

Sure the idea was he'd be more of a medium > long term consideration and he might even go back out on loan.  But with Pau's injury he might see some benchtime.

[PaulWinch again]

The ease in which their forward stepped inside him tonight was embarrassing I thought. Very unfortunate injury but just the opportunity Mings needed.

I pretty much guarantee that for the second goal had it been Pau standing where Mings was he’d have been criticised for not getting out closer to the Brighton player (Mings did nothing wrong by the way, but some would have slated Pau had it been him). Not particularly aimed at you, but the micro focus on anything Pau is bonkers. That first goal was down to two fuck-ups by Konsa, the second one you wouldn’t expect in an under 10’s game. Pau had been in entirely the right position originally, but Konsa’s first error left everyone completely exposed.

[VillaTim]

His injury might force us to improve our donkey defence.

100%. Cash Konsa Mings Digne .
It really isn't difficult

[Olof's Beard]

That offside trap was the envy of the league last season so the defensive unit was certainly well drilled and functioning like a team then. We seem to have either abandoned it or been found out.

[brontebilly]

The ease in which their forward stepped inside him tonight was embarrassing I thought. Very unfortunate injury but just the opportunity Mings needed.

I pretty much guarantee that for the second goal had it been Pau standing where Mings was he’d have been criticised for not getting out closer to the Brighton player (Mings did nothing wrong by the way, but some would have slated Pau had it been him). Not particularly aimed at you, but the micro focus on anything Pau is bonkers. That first goal was down to two fuck-ups by Konsa, the second one you wouldn’t expect in an under 10’s game. Pau had been in entirely the right position originally, but Konsa’s first error left everyone completely exposed.

Agreed Konsa was an embarrassment for that goal.  Also our RCB is not even back in our box by the time they score, Torres is trying to bail out those two clowns. But he's caught horribly flat footed all the same.
Not sure about the second but we seem to be conceding a lot of shots from the edge of our box. Martinez at his best might save it too

[eamonn]

Konsa's reaction to every goal we concede is a dramatic toddler-stomp on the ground and a round of fucks. I hope it's himself that he's berating, as he's often the fecker at fault.