1 minute ago, Munkworth said:

-insert ‘that’s racist’ meme here-

Even though I pretty much had this conversation with a Cameroonian at work 

 

ha ha,   I got it from a South African arsenal fan I work with,  he found it very amusing he was called kepa

He looks pretty assured so far

Didn’t really have much to do today but looked assured on the ball and confident enough to come and claim crosses.

Bigger tests await but promising enough start.

Kepa's passing ability amazes me 

NBCSC credited Kante's goal to Kepa

Didn't have to make a save but a clean sheet is a clean sheet nonetheless. 

Hopefully that will settle some of the nerves and pressure. 

Something i noticed already. When he get's the ball, sometimes he will drag it back, and ask a few defenders to come back with him, it draws the opposition closer and then he quickly passes to one of our defenders and then our defender plays it into midfield. This gives us a chance to open teams up because the opposition has thrown 4 or 5 players forward to try and force us into a mistake. I don't know if this is Sarri's tactics or something Kepa has forced into the team himself. I like it though, it's a good way to force teams out and stop them being so defensive.

He looks small in goal. 

35 minutes ago, JM7 said:

He looks small in goal. 

So does De Gea and look how he turned out.

And Carlo, and he was just fine

 

I feel more nervous at corners and set pieces with Kepa compared to Tibo, this is more a compliment to how good Courtois is on set plays than any slight on Kepa but the corner that hit the post wouldn't have happened on the Belgiums watch. However distribution was another matter, we could pass the ball back to Kepa even under pressure and play kept on ticking over, Courtois would have panicked in half the situations Kepa was in today.

23 hours ago, JM7 said:

He looks small in goal. 

We’re just used to having Courtois, a giant, between the sticks.

23 hours ago, Argo said:

I feel more nervous at corners and set pieces with Kepa compared to Tibo, this is more a compliment to how good Courtois is on set plays than any slight on Kepa but the corner that hit the post wouldn't have happened on the Belgiums watch. However distribution was another matter, we could pass the ball back to Kepa even under pressure and play kept on ticking over, Courtois would have panicked in half the situations Kepa was in today.

Watched Liverpool's game today and Allison who had little to do, I thought looked a little shaky, where kepa even when running towards the goal before the game looked confident, body language can say a lot.

6 hours ago, chi blue said:

Watched Liverpool's game today and Allison who had little to do, I thought looked a little shaky, where kepa even when running towards the goal before the game looked confident, body language can say a lot.

I wasn't overly impressed with Alisson in the World Cup either. From what I saw of Eder last season I thought he should have started for Brazil.

On 11/08/2018 at 20:48, Scott Harris said:

Something i noticed already. When he get's the ball, sometimes he will drag it back, and ask a few defenders to come back with him, it draws the opposition closer and then he quickly passes to one of our defenders and then our defender plays it into midfield. This gives us a chance to open teams up because the opposition has thrown 4 or 5 players forward to try and force us into a mistake. I don't know if this is Sarri's tactics or something Kepa has forced into the team himself. I like it though, it's a good way to force teams out and stop them being so defensive.

What you describe there is pretty much Sarrisimo 101. 

Everyone has probably seen this by now, but thats exactly how we got our pen. Lured them into a press which opened up the entire left side

 

3 hours ago, forbzy said:

I wasn't overly impressed with Alisson in the World Cup either. From what I saw of Eder last season I thought he should have started for Brazil.

Ederson also looked dodgy though, Arsenal really should have scored at least twice from his mistakes

Thought he looked shaky today, and was pretty unconvincing at various points in the game. 

Hope that he can settle quickly and try to be a bit more forceful and dominant in his box.  How tall is he? Looks small in the goal, maybe it is a frame issue rather than height, because  to me he looks like he is stuggling a bit.

Is he really taller then 6’0? 

Probably could have done better for both goals, got something on both of them but it helps when the players in front of him don’t forget to mark/track runners. 

He’ll be fine.  Shaky defense today.  His ball skills were apparent.

I'm happy to give him time. I'm already sick of the commentators talking about him being the most expensive keeper in the world. When he let in the first one, my commentators said something like "You'd expect the most expensive keeper in the world to save that." Yeah, he should have saved it, but it's not his fault he's that expensive...and every keeper will make mistakes, no matter how good (or how expensive) they are.

He'll get there.

I'm expecting moments of brilliance and some awful mistakes as the season goes on. Sort of like De Gea's first season or two. He'll take time, but in a few years he should be brilliant.

Wasn't great, kind expected one of those game. Good thing we won, so he's not going to get over scrutinized, I'm sure he will get over-worked in training next week. His passing was pretty good through, never got that out of Courtois or Cech.

Edited August 19, 20187 yr by icecoolguy22

Kepa is so far a good sweeper but not very confident as a shot stopper. I think Courtois would have saved that Mhkitaryan shot although it was a good shot. 

Not the time to evaluate him. Probably not even the season to do so. Young boy still especially as a keeper. 

can not believe how young he looks !! maybe needs to strengthen up a bit ?