Pau Torres

[Demitri_C]

He needs to partner both Disasi and Kamara to make it about 15 different partnerships. Has he played with Bogarde in the centre yet this season as well?

That has to be some kind of record  surely? Madness that we have had this, this season

[Drummond]

He needs to partner both Disasi and Kamara to make it about 15 different partnerships. Has he played with Bogarde in the centre yet this season as well?

and Mings

[Percy McCarthy]

I wouldn't include Maatsen's name in that.

Nor Konsa or Chaos Carlos. Our defence has been sh*t for ages including every CB mentioned here.

Must have been confusing for you when the entire right-side of our defence was made up of those two and it performed so much better than  the one you prefer.

I mean, not only is the bloke who has played RB, RCB & LCB for England a “massive drop off” from the bloke who has given away more penalties than every other Premier League player since his debut, and found an international career on Ancestry.com, but he had the added handicap (according to you) of playing next to Carlos. And yet the only real massive drop off (outside your fevered imagination) is in the number of clean sheets we kept when your man played. You must think Pau and Digne were McGrath and Maldini in disguise to help Konsa and Carlos become the fourth best defence in the CL so far and keep somewhere between double and treble the amount of clean sheets as we did when Cash played.

It’s like saying there’s a massive drop off from Samatta to Watkins.

[PaulWinch again]

Glad Pau is back will massively help our ability to play out from the back.

[pauliewalnuts]

Glad Pau is back will massively help our ability to play out from the back.

Yep, he is so important in how we play, up there with Kamara in that sense.

I appreciate he's not the greatest defensively, but *looks at all the others*

[PaulWinch again]

Indeed. We need to maximise our strength, which is attacking, certainly in the short-term. The defensive issues clearly aren’t getting solved until the summer at the earliest. Pau and Kamara give us that link from the back to unlock the potential of the attack.

[paul_e]

I reckon Pau and Disasi will be good together and will fit how we want to play really well.

[VillaTim]

Assume he'll be eased back in gradually , bench v Brentford for example.

[London Villan]

What’s our record like when Torres and Kamara both play?

[Hookeysmith]

Assume he'll be eased back in gradually , bench v Brentford for example.

Pretty good these medical people as it was suggested way back that he would be back in time for the champions league game at home

[Mellin]

Glad Pau is back will massively help our ability to play out from the back.

Yep, he is so important in how we play, up there with Kamara in that sense.

I appreciate he's not the greatest defensively, but *looks at all the others*

You know what, this is a great point. We concede a shitload anyway, we might as well concede a shitload whilst playing sexy football.

[RamboandBruno]

Haven’t looked at numbers, but doesn’t feel like the goals against has improved at all since he’s been out. Lots of other injuries have obviously influenced, but Pau was beginning to become a scapegoat for our defensive problems, for some.
It will actually take some of the pressure off Tielemans to be the main creative outlet, with Torres back soon.

[Percy McCarthy]

Obviously to all but the severely deluded,  our most  effective defence since Mings got injured at Newcastle has been Carlis/Pau with Konsa at right-back.So I hold out the hope that Disasi/Pau with Konsa at right-back can be as effective, if not moreso.

[Percy McCarthy]

What’s our record like when Torres and Kamara both play?

Better than anything else as long as he was partnered with Carlos, with Konsa at right-back.

But that defence has been outstanding on occasion without Kamara.

[brontebilly]

Haven’t looked at numbers, but doesn’t feel like the goals against has improved at all since he’s been out. Lots of other injuries have obviously influenced, but Pau was beginning to become a scapegoat for our defensive problems, for some.
It will actually take some of the pressure off Tielemans to be the main creative outlet, with Torres back soon.

There is that. Mings with the ball is a bit sad really and defensively hasn't improved us either. Torres can step up and be another midfielder at times.

But Torres was also really poor defensively when fit. Spurs away, Leipzig, Fulham. He has lost a bit of confidence in his playmaking pre injury too I thought, running into trouble a bit, that error in Leipzig.