All the best for a speedy recovery, Conor lad.
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This one isnāt, his back one wasnāt!
Why canāt Frimpong play in a back 4?
When he is 1 v 1 against an opposition winger he has mostly won the battle.
He is small and quick, both in a straight line and off the mark, he can change direction quickly and appears to have a good defensive stance.
The only area where I have a worry is aerially but from what I have seen he does have a good vertical jump, which you would expect from an explosive type of player.
Why do we listen to what pundits say and stereotype with what a wingback offers compared to a contemporary fullbacksay, rather than actually look at what the individual player actually does in those situations?
Martinelli actually faced up Frimpong in the game and didnāt fancy that he could do his normal and push and run past him with the ball as he knows Frimmy is faster.
On Connor, get well soon young fella, we need you back!
Good to hear it isnāt ACL, when it happened it looked more like a twist of the knee rather than the movement that typically causes an ACL injury, which is normally where the femur moves in and anterior or posterior motion whilst the lower leg is fixed.
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Really insightful piece - Bradley should consider trying to simply not get injured
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Come back fighting Conorā¦
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Yeah indeedā¦ when assessing this season under Slot, weād do well to take into consideration all these miserable events which have been hitting us time after time. Starting with Jotaās death, and then all these freaking injuries ā¦
Errors might have been made in the run-up to it, but this is not a normal season by any standards.
Stay strong, Conor, and weāll hopefully see each other again for pre-season next summer.
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I didnāt say he canāt nor did I mention pundits and stereotypes, but we havenāt seen much of it (Frimpong at RB in a back 4) at the highest level.
We know where he played for Levekusen and where he usually plays for the Netherlands.
Thereās āa bitā more to footballers and being the right for for the position than pace, physical appearance and aerial skills.
No you didnāt mention, pundits or stereotypes, but your posts insinuates the stereotypical bit and what you said is typical of what pundits etc have said, rather than watching a player perform and that he has most of the tools to perform well.
The other things are positional and mental attitude, which, it could be said that our previous mainstay right back seemed to lackm in regards to the defensive side of the game, but provided for the team with his supreme abilty on the ball.
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I donāt know what each pundit (even though I watch a fair bit) says about Frimpong, but Iām pretty sure theyāre not all of the same opinion.
Some things are stereotype, some things are justā¦ reality, what it is, no?
And I donāt know what is there to compare between Trent and Frimpong, but there you go. I mean, we can, but there arenāt many similar points between them. Two very different players.
You mentioned
The other things are the mental attributes, so I then mentioned Trent, who for me didnāt have the mental attribute to be typical RB and he was our 1st choice.
No it isnāt ārealityā it is a stereotype and that is what pundits and a lot of observers are doing, just becase a player has played wing back or a position more attuned to RW, doesnāt mean he canāt play a typical FB role.
I do agree with you that if Connor and Frimpong are available then Connor os the FB and Frimpong plays in front of him.
So physical attribues, pace, aerial attributes, mental and thatās it? Interesting.
Isnāt comparing Frimpong to Trent in this discussion the type of lazy observation youād accuse pundits of? As in, if Trent couldāve been what he was at Liverpool, so can Frimpong.
Regardless that the similarities are so thin that theyāre almost non-existent. What do they have in common?
Come on enlighten me
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Play football on the same side of the pitch?
That might be the only thing, yeah.
Both interested in hairstyles.
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For those of you calling him Connorā¦
His name is Conor.
Drives me mad, small thing but please get it right!!
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Sorry, I will remember now, thanks for the hint, but I blame autocorrect 
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