I’ve all the time rated Wesley Fofana as a defender, I’ve stated that so much on right here. I used to be buzzing when he joined, and many people positioned him as our greatest defender for some time.
He truly jogs my memory of Gary Cahill slightly bit in how he performs. He’s defensively colossal. Nonetheless, what he lacks that Cahill had, was his studying of the sport and focus. Fofana wants extra consciousness and must cease ball watching.
However I see Fofana deliver the ball out of defence with dedication and confidence, and it mirrors how Cahill used to do it, that stepping out with the ball, I like it.
Cahill additionally received criticised for a way he was on the ball. He was by no means going to be the perfect ball-playing defender on the earth, and neither is Fofana. I truly assume Cahill deserves a bit extra credit score for a way he was on the ball to be trustworthy although.
However these are the 2 areas that Fofana must step up in to be a whole centre again. Aside from that although, I believe yesterday towards Arsenal was his greatest sport since earlier than he received injured.
He was extra assured, he was a lot sharper, and defensively he was excellent and tremendous sturdy.
Fofana admits that he’s a extra of a ‘canine’ centre again, and Levi Colwill gives the standard on the ball. This will work.
Fofana stated: “I’m the canine and Levi [Colwill] is extra the calm man! We praise one another so much and it’s superb for the workforce and for us. We have to enhance some little particulars, however we’re younger and we progress.
“I believe this was my greatest [performance since returning from injury]. Towards Arsenal as nicely, a London derby, I’m very comfortable. I gave every thing on the pitch, I give every thing for the membership. I must proceed like this.”
He’s completely proper right here. Fofana is extra of an old style preventing centre again, therefore the Cahill comparisons. However he can praise Colwill. They each simply collectively want extra consciousness and focus when defending and working again in the direction of our objective. They each lack that.
Fofana is a brilliant sturdy defender although and when you ask this man to simply throw himself into challenges, win tackles, intercept, all sport lengthy, he might be comfortable.
However we not solely must see that canine in him each sport now going ahead, he additionally must work on being extra calm in possession and the opposite aforementioned issues.
Nonetheless, it is a constructive article and a constructive step for Fofana yesterday. He didn’t play all final season, so it was all the time going to take a little bit of time. But when he can hold bettering and enjoying like he did yesterday while reducing out the focus lapses and errors in possession, then there isn’t any motive he can not turn out to be the participant all of us anticipated him to turn out to be when he signed.
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