Aztec Hammer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 11:11 am
So then you've been exposed for pace surely.
I want to like Kehrer, he has the passing skills we need to be able to play higher up the pitch. But you can't make as many rickets as he does on a game-to-game basis and expect to make it as a starter in the Premier League.
I understand he's a new signing and it's more fashionable to protect him and make excuses for him than it is for someone like Ben Johnson, but it's the reality of his time here so far. Not quite good enough yet, whether you want to call them direct mistakes or not.
His physique is a major issue I think. It's almost rendering him a player without a position. In this league, opposition will eat you alive once they realise you have limitations in certain aspects. Wouldn't be surprised if DM was the position he played best for us in.
Anyone can get exposed for pace. It isn’t the damning verdict people think it is, especially on one individual. If you’re exposed to a one-on-one pass around the back of you, the likelihood is there has been at least one mistake made in front of you. I’m not saying he’s not also done something wrong, but it’s made out to be this massive deal when it’s almost inevitable.
Funnily enough, I think Ben Johnson gets excuses made for him constantly by people who are blind cos he’s an academy graduate. The fact a Kehrer mistake was highlighted that actively ignored the bigger error from Johnson is kinda proof. And
I do not understand how his physique is an issue, especially for right back.
He’s been here a few months, arriving a bit late, thrown into the centre back role straight away in a crisis. Then it’s right back, then centre back in a three, so on, so forth.
He has got a rash error in him in every game, some important, some not. But the defence of him was that he is not being allowed the same grace and time as Scamacca and Paqueta, which I can only put down to people being invested in those two working. I would go as far as to say that it’s a lot of people protecting their own ego because they went big on the two marquee signings.
Kehrer is easy pickings, and defenders don’t get the time attacking players do. The latter part of that was my point to begin with.