The Moonlit Knight
Banned
and what are the things that BAE improved ?
Positioning,awareness,decision making and concentration.
He was always quite skillful with the ball,but his defensive lapses made him look like a bad fullback at times.
Agreed, coupled with the fact we are a better side so he is under less pressure and has less chances to make mistakes. His ratio of mistakes to situations faced is probably identical to when he first arrived, but now he is faced with less of them during the game because we dominant teams more. Ekotto has always been decent going forward, it's defensively he is very shaky (and still is in my opinion). The other thing he seems to have added to his game since Redknapp took over is work rate. Before he used to get forward and saunter back. He appears to have become more of a team player, and works harder to get back.
I can't agree with Southstand's analysis of him either. I actually think his crossing and short game passing have gone backwards over the last season or so.