Donyell Malen

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

I continue to believe he's not a wide man, he should be challenging Watkins.

[Dante Lavelli]

I continue to believe he's not a wide man, he should be challenging Watkins.

his best form has been as a striker.  That’s probably true with us too.

[andyh]

I think tonight showed why he isn’t a starter. Very disappointing.
He looked lethargic and uninvolved.

[PaulWinch again]

Which is daft in terms of recruitment. There’s nothing about him that says he’d be a mainstay of a top end Premier League side as a striker. He’ll absolutely score some goals, but he screams impact sub. Our primary gap was out wide, and he can’t do that well enough.

[Nev]

I think tonight showed why he isn’t a starter. Very disappointing.
He looked lethargic and uninvolved.

Didn't everyone? I'll give him and Guessand a pass for now such is the malaise we are in at the moment.

[Paul.S]

It appears Emery was right all along.

[PaulWinch again]

If by “right all along” you mean he shouldn’t be playing, then that is pretty chilling given he’s been a key figure in senior management appointments for recruitment and strategy.

[Paul.S]

If by “right all along” you mean he shouldn’t be playing, then that is pretty chilling given he’s been a key figure in senior management appointments for recruitment and strategy.

Every signing is a gamble and no one gets it right all the time. If he’s made a mistake then so be it but he’s been proven right not to start him yet. The player has to put it in and improve and he hasn’t….yet.

[rob_bridge]

Playing him and Cash on that side is asking for trouble. Sorry it is.

He is to me more of a central striker so it Ollie's replacement / understudy

[Somniloquism]

I didn't watch it, but the commentaries had him involved in some decent (for our current standards) attacking moves. Tracking back isn't a strong point though.

[rob_bridge]

I didn't watch it, but the commentaries had him involved in some decent (for our current standards) attacking moves. Tracking back isn't a strong point though.

And 10 years ago you could get away with that. Not in the Premier League anymore. No way.

[Dave]

I didn't watch it, but the commentaries had him involved in some decent (for our current standards) attacking moves. Tracking back isn't a strong point though.

He spent most of the first half right in my eye-line.

I assumed he must have pissed in Cash's kit bag before the match, such was Cash's reluctance to give him the ball.

I'm not saying his movement was perfect, but after forty-five minutes of timing his run in behind, seeing Cash watch him make his run and pass back to Konsa for the twentieth time, I'd have probably not bothered coming back out for the second half.

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I didn't watch it, but the commentaries had him involved in some decent (for our current standards) attacking moves. Tracking back isn't a strong point though.

He spent most of the first half right in my eye-line.

I assumed he must have pissed in Cash's kit bag before the match, such was Cash's reluctance to give him the ball.

I'm not saying his movement was perfect, but after forty-five minutes of timing his run in behind, seeing Cash watch him make his run and pass back to Konsa for the twentieth time, I'd have probably not bothered coming back out for the second half.

I agree with you. There was a large space consistently behind their defence that it would have been nice for Malen to have attacked, but the ball was checked inside.

Malen also detached their defence by creating a channel 10-20 yards wide that it would have been nice to exploit, but alas.

[ChicagoLion]

He was very poor, he was so slow reacting to when we had the ball on the right, it was like he was marking their number 3 when we were attacking.
Another dud.

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From pancea to dud. God bless the internet.