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Jan Paul van Hecke

Bishop said:
I think JPVH had a poor game but honestly Romero wouldn't have made any difference. The failing wasn't the defence being poor it was the entire setup, it was geared to fail. Romero may have just done better in certain individual situations but the net result would have been the same just as we saw over the last 2 years when he has played and we've put in similar performances. 1 good defender wouldn't save yesterday's performance.
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The bigger worry for me was that we went for him in the first place.

He was crap at the WC too, he’s going to get battered by any decent PL forward he goes up against.
 
DubaiSpur said:
He was poor at what he's always been poor at -physical duels and aerial battles. His stats from last season bear this out - don't believe he was close to the top percentile in either.

We signed him to be the line-breaking passer in the CB pairing, with someone else being the battler. Problem is, Senesi has an identikit profile. Pairing them is pairing two physically sub-par passers as your CBs - you will be dominated by a physical side like Brentford, and so we were.

Should have started Danso, imo. Failing that, should have played a back three with Danso in it. This sort of game is not one Van Hecke will ever excel in.
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100% agree with this
 
Bedfordspurs said:
He played defensively how I’ve seen him play most times
That is the worry for me
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Hadn't really noticed him at Brighton but once we signed him I watched him during the World Cup. Wasn't impressed one bit, hope he's better than the few appearances I've now seen.
 
He's the one that worries the most of all our signings - I know it's unpopular to point to de Zerbi's tempestuous nature (I know he performed something close to a miracle last season) but not sure the next man will fancy him and..... Well.... Let's see with Vuskovic
 
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DubaiSpur said:
He was poor at what he's always been poor at -physical duels and aerial battles. His stats from last season bear this out - don't believe he was close to the top percentile in either.

We signed him to be the line-breaking passer in the CB pairing, with someone else being the battler. Problem is, Senesi has an identikit profile. Pairing them is pairing two physically sub-par passers as your CBs - you will be dominated by a physical side like Brentford, and so we were.

Should have started Danso, imo. Failing that, should have played a back three with Danso in it. This sort of game is not one Van Hecke will ever excel in.
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While both he and Senesi lost the physical battle yesterday, I don’t think that was the reason we lost the game. I think we lost the battle in midfield.
 
yiddo37 said:
Hadn't really noticed him at Brighton but once we signed him I watched him during the World Cup. Wasn't impressed one bit, hope he's better than the few appearances I've now seen.
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The few times I've seen him play it's been against us, and I thought he was great - but how hard was that against us during the last couple of season? I thought he was absolutely terrible yesterday. One game though, let's see how fares with Micky next to him.
 
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