Defour speed
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Defour speed
Does anyone think Defour is surprisingly quick?
A few times this season I have thought he is pretty quick. Watching the counter attack yesterday he must have got from box to box in under 10 seconds
A few times this season I have thought he is pretty quick. Watching the counter attack yesterday he must have got from box to box in under 10 seconds
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Re: Defour speed
Yeah he's quite deceptive. Most good players have that initial burst of speed.
Dunno exactly how quick it was but he wasn't hanging about.
Dunno exactly how quick it was but he wasn't hanging about.
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Re: Defour speed
he can go through the gears, he is decptively quick
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Re: Defour speed
When passed to gudmondsson the burst of pace to get into the position to chip was pretty impressive.
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His sudden acceleration when he decided where he needed to be for that wonder goal was exhilarating, I have watched it countless times just for that!
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Re: Defour speed
By top level football standards he's average at best
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Re: Defour speed
Think he's got a burst of accelaration that marks out the best players, so he's quick over 5-10 yards, and also like a top player he antipates things well. He gets to a lot of loose balls first because of this.
Hes not that quick i don't think over 40 yards, but that doesn't necessarily matter in his position.
His problem has been that the pace at which teams move the ball in the prem still takes him by surprise a bit because he's been trained to understand a much slower tempo. But when the ball breaks loose, that ceases to matter so much.
Hes not that quick i don't think over 40 yards, but that doesn't necessarily matter in his position.
His problem has been that the pace at which teams move the ball in the prem still takes him by surprise a bit because he's been trained to understand a much slower tempo. But when the ball breaks loose, that ceases to matter so much.
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Re: Defour speed
Agree with Spice, it's his thought process that's quick.
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Re: Defour speed
He does have short bursts.
But it's his speed of thought that impressed me most.
But it's his speed of thought that impressed me most.
Re: Defour speed
He covered a lot of ground pretty quickly for his goal.
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Re: Defour speed
Hes quick enough, that is for certain. But in a race over 40 yards i reckon he'd be beaten comfortably by both Marney (when fit) and Hendrick. Hes not athletic like those two are for example.
As others have said, what i really meant was his great strength alongside his speed off the mark is his speed of thought.
As others have said, what i really meant was his great strength alongside his speed off the mark is his speed of thought.
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Re: Defour speed
This is the key point. If you watch it again you see that when he passed the ball he started to slow down so defenders naturally went away from him but that gave him the space and he then decides to accelerate giving JBG the option of laying him on.morpheus2 wrote:His sudden acceleration when he decided where he needed to be for that wonder goal was exhilarating, I have watched it countless times just for that!
His intelligence lead to the defenders gravitating around the ball and other players. So rather than his outright pace it's his intelligence which gives him the empty space to run into.
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Re: Defour speed
Defour and Barton both anticipate the game better than anyone I've ever seen in a Burnley shirt.
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I think not.Devils_Advocate wrote:By top level football standards he's average at best
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One of my favourite football quotes:
"His pace is very deceptive,he"s slower than he looks"
Shankley on Larry Lloyd.
"His pace is very deceptive,he"s slower than he looks"
Shankley on Larry Lloyd.