David Luiz - two sides to the coin?

[YankinBlue42 72]

He's such a talent at the age of 23. I will be thrilled to take his "youthful exuberance" if we continue seeing performances like we have already.

[The Big Drog 1,110]

He is a fantastic centre back, arguably the best young centre back on the planet. Perhaps the rash tackles have got to be toned down very slightly, but no more than very slightly. If you try to take away the aggresive way in which he plays the game then he is like every other defender around and we have all seen that he can be so much more than that. While he has the readingand covering skills of a Carvalho, in playing style he seems to be far more similar to his Brazilian compatriot Lucio. Like Lucio, he likes to step out from the back four and nick the ball ahead of the attacker, like Lucio he has no problem with charging out of defence with the ball and carring it up field, like Lucio he is physically very strong and like Lucio he is quite fast.

Defensively he has come in for a bit of criticism but he was excellent for the most part against Fulham, solid against Man Utd and Blackpool and entered a defensive masterclass agaisnt Man City, sure his methods might by a bit unorthodox but if you are to strip that away from him then you are to strip away his originality and turn a unique and great player into a generic centre back. You've got to let him play his natural game because his natural game is very special.

[Feroze 487]

I sort of agree with this topic, he is a great player without a doubt. But he does silly things at times such as the incidents between him and Hernandez/Rooney. and lets not forget the needless tackle on Dempsey. But he is young and learning, and is quality other then the aggressiveness. Having said that, he is all in a quality player.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

I still think he should play right-back

[Slb1989 8]

he made this mistakes on benfica too but not very often. he was very nervous in the first games and was giving everthing he had thats why he made some bad challanges. for me his biggest problem is making too much fouls near the box, we had like 3 or 4 per game against us made by david luiz. but im sure he will be the best centre defender in the world in 2 or 3 years. now you just need more 9 ex benfica players to play like us :eyebrows: