Centralscrutinizer
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Neither are perfect so they aren't good enough for a lot of our supporters
Yea, out the two we have I think I favour Engel as I think he has the edge going forward. He certainly can pick a pass out. The pass to Rogers against West Brom looked so easy, yet no doubt many players wouldn't have picked him out, which ended up being a decisive pass.Carrick likes them to create goalscoring opportunities.
Engel has the same number of assists as Giles managed across the same opening period of games (both got 3 assists in their first 16 starts) and he's not got an Akpom getting on the end of everything.
Even if you limit it to the period under Carrick, it's 4 assists for Giles in the first 16 starts compared to 3 assists for Engel.
He's also looked far more like scoring than Giles ever did, barring that one own goal.
Yea, out the two we have I think I favour Engel as I think he has the edge going forward. He certainly can pick a pass out. The pass to Rogers against West Brom looked so easy, yet no doubt many players wouldn't have picked him out, which ended up being a decisive pass.
Still don't see him having the same quality of delivery as Giles, but hopefully I'm wrong. It's still early days to be fair.
That awful dive though.Engel - looked brilliant at times since that horror show against sheff wed, but still proving to have lapses of concentration. He's had to make a big step up but i think he's coped with it pretty well. He does look to have a lot of good attributes and i love wathing him drive forward.
Bangura - unless i'm mistaken i can't recall a time he's ever let us down when on the pitch? Always seems to put in a very solid performance. Never known him singled out for any performances like Engel has.
On that basis, if you held a gun to my head it has to be Bangura for me. There's something i really like about Engel though, and i'm desperate for him to succeed.
Oh yea true hahaThat awful dive though.
I suspect the rotation is to avoid losing another player. Prior to the injury bite engel was the number 1 choice.Engel is good enough just not very consistent.. I don't like the rotating LBs that Carrick has been doing recently.
Bangura needs to greatly improve defensively. It all seems a little too easy sometimes vs him.
You honestly think half a season is enough "settling" for young men moving to a different country and league?I'm Ok with both for now but they have had their settling in period , re change of country , league, pace and style of play and both need to buckle down now and make improvements especially in the defensive area
I did not know this til now as I just looked it up on transfermarket but neither have learned the trade of LB at all from their early career. Both started and played for 3 or 4 seasons as attacking roles. Engel only changed to a LB 21/22 season but that was half way through when he changed club so just has 18 apps as LB then , next season 33 apps so that's just 51 games in that position. Bangura switched to LB once season earlier so he has 24 , 28 and 28 apps in that position before joining us. Maybe MC put fwd the idea he didn't need out an out defender and we should look to sign LB's that had played more fwd too
well yeah, ones 25 , that's 7 years classed as an adult! No language barrier, no real culture barrier either as northern European. I'm not saying settled in to be showing us what a 'star' he is. I'm saying settled in as to be not worrying about anything other than wanting to train well and give good match performances.You honestly think half a season is enough "settling" for young men moving to a different country and league?