Edouard Mendy

[DANILA 290]

Always knew he's not good enough to be our top keeper for the long-term; good enough solution for the rest of the season tho. He rebounds balls after saves like a wall

[Tomo 21,751]

On 26/12/2020 at 8:42 PM, killer1257 said:

Did I miss something? Lol

Xhaka and Saka scored world class goals nad around 86% of penaldos go in anyway.

I've said this before but it's not the fact the penalties are going in but it's the way he's being easily duped. Look at the penalties he's faced for us and how he's been easily sat down while the taker rolled (or in Kane's case smashed) it the other side, it happens every single time. He also let in 22 out of 23 before coming to us so it's clearly a huge issue.

I don't actually think he's been as bad as made out this month but I literally have no hope of him saving a penalty.

[Special Juan 28,101]

He's going to get the ball stolen from his feet by an attacker anytime soon, he's way too casual on the ball and his distribution is pretty shit.

[Beigl 1,387]

6 hours ago, Tomo said:

I've said this before but it's not the fact the penalties are going in but it's the way he's being easily duped. Look at the penalties he's faced for us and how he's been easily sat down while the taker rolled (or in Kane's case smashed) it the other side, it happens every single time. He also let in 22 out of 23 before coming to us so it's clearly a huge issue.

I don't actually think he's been as bad as made out this month but I literally have no hope of him saving a penalty.

On the other hand we should be glad that he is a good shot stopper. Without his saves we would likely have 6-8 points less. He gets the basics right, which is all we asked for when we signed him. His sweeping isn´t good either, but I can accept that considering Mendy is pretty decent in almost every goalkeeper attribute.

We should be used to concede penalty goals anyway. In the last twenty years we never had any good penalty stopper as our first goalkeeper. 

 

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

A lot of shit for Christensen for the goal which I do think is warranted as he should have gotten up for but does nobody think Mendy could have done a lot better for El Ghazi’s goal? Through his legs? Surely? I know El Ghazi is hardly that far out and he’s hardly got a lot of power on it either so I would of thought the GK would of done better? No?

[Vesper 30,090]

He is starting to become a worry. Not a good thing at all to become for a GK.

He had damn well better stop fucking about.

[killer1257 3,282]

He can't do anything at that range, especially considering the fact that he is tall. Small keepers like Kepa, Oblak or ter stegen maybe could close their legs a little bit faster because they are smaller, but big keepers have no chance at this range. I would say that also Oblak does not save that goal. But I remember here there was a time that snake got slaughtered every week, even though he was a world class GK. He also conceded goals that went through his legs, but can't do better because he is just taller. Wider GK stance and depending what type of fall he wants to do to save goals, it couls take very long. Kepa for instance saved a penalty from Hinteregger because he could close his smaller legs pretty fast (small compared to snake or Mendy).

That goal saves no keeper. Too close. AC was missing

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[DANILA 290]

Not the long term solution but good enough to get us top 4. This was known as the start; he will be second GK or leave starting next season. 

Horrible ball control skills after saves with massive rebounds.  Poor, unorthodox technique as well. 

[communicate 2,703]

On 12/29/2020 at 11:20 AM, Tomo said:

I've said this before but it's not the fact the penalties are going in but it's the way he's being easily duped. Look at the penalties he's faced for us and how he's been easily sat down while the taker rolled (or in Kane's case smashed) it the other side, it happens every single time. He also let in 22 out of 23 before coming to us so it's clearly a huge issue.

I don't actually think he's been as bad as made out this month but I literally have no hope of him saving a penalty.

Tbf Courtois is also quite poor against penalties if I remember correctly. 

[communicate 2,703]

8 hours ago, killer1257 said:

He can't do anything at that range, especially considering the fact that he is tall. Small keepers like Kepa, Oblak or ter stegen maybe could close their legs a little bit faster because they are smaller, but big keepers have no chance at this range. I would say that also Oblak does not save that goal. But I remember here there was a time that snake got slaughtered every week, even though he was a world class GK. He also conceded goals that went through his legs, but can't do better because he is just taller. Wider GK stance and depending what type of fall he wants to do to save goals, it couls take very long. Kepa for instance saved a penalty from Hinteregger because he could close his smaller legs pretty fast (small compared to snake or Mendy).

That goal saves no keeper. Too close. AC was missing

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Any save from 6 yard box is usually pure luck, you just make yourself as big as possible. Hopefully it hit you

[Jase 43,479]

JFC! If ever there is an overreaction, it's this to Mendy. He has ticked all the boxes that a goalkeeper should be doing ever since he came in and he is the least of our worries right now. Plus, he also has 6 Premier League clean sheets this season; only 3 keepers have more than him. 

[Johnnyeye 7,501]

it seems his honeymoon period is over, if the last games are anything to go by, i just hope this doesnt become an issue as well, because we would be royally fucked.

[Tomo 21,751]

11 minutes ago, Jason said:

JFC! If ever there is an overreaction, it's this to Mendy. He has ticked all the boxes that a goalkeeper should be doing ever since he came in and he is the least of our worries right now. Plus, he also has 6 Premier League clean sheets this season; only 3 keepers have more than him. 

Don't get me wrong i have very little complaints about him outside of his technique with pens but it's something we must consider going forward in cup competiton's, it could cost us big time at some point (could argue it already has given Tottenham's draws since they played us).

22 hours ago, Beigl said:

On the other hand we should be glad that he is a good shot stopper. Without his saves we would likely have 6-8 points less. He gets the basics right, which is all we asked for when we signed him. His sweeping isn´t good either, but I can accept that considering Mendy is pretty decent in almost every goalkeeper attribute.

We should be used to concede penalty goals anyway. In the last twenty years we never had any good penalty stopper as our first goalkeeper. 

 You're right in the league it shouldn't matter too much, but as above in cups it could cost us.

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, Tomo said:

Don't get me wrong i have very little complaints about him outside of his technique with pens but it's something we must consider going forward in cup competiton's, it could cost us big game at some point (could argue it already has given Tottenham's draws since they played us).

Didn't Cech also use to be bad at saving penalties (Munich excluded)? One would assume or hope that Mendy is improving at this aspect in training and will do his homework before the big cup games.

[Johnnyeye 7,501]

2 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Don't get me wrong i have very little complaints about him outside of his technique with pens but it's something we must consider going forward in cup competiton's, it could cost us big time at some point (could argue it already has given Tottenham's draws since they played us).

 You're right in the league it shouldn't matter too much, but as above in cups it could cost us.

i understand your concern about his weak save percentage regarding pens and i agree, there will be games that will be decided by a pen save, the Everton loss comes to mind, and also imagine other tight games where we are leading 1-0 or 2-1 and the opponent gets a late pen, this shit happens a lot, these tight little margins are the difference between failure and success.