Have noticed a few times this season he's quite slow. For me Chilwell is nailed on starter when both fit. 

47 minutes ago, RMH said:

At LWB he was having good games before his illness, so I agree with you. It’s too soon to write him off.

Cucu?? 

Nope. Cucu is a horrible wb. 

Cannot really use the "highly rated at Brighton" defence as Brighton also highly rate Lewis Dunk and Danny Welbeck.

I still think Cucurella is a better all around player. 

Chilwell better in the attacking end. 

17 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

I still think Cucurella is a better all around player. 

Chilwell better in the attacking end. 

When fully fit I think both are good LB options. Not sure we will be able to keep both happy in the long term as I am not convinced Cucurella is good enough at LCB. I suspect one of the 2 players will leave. 

Hmm based on what we have seen I would venture that:

Better at heading the ball: Chilwell

Better engine: Cucurella

Better technique/ball control: Cucurella

Better defender: Chilwell

Better crossing: Chilwell

Better passing: Cucurella

Better finishing: Chilwell

3 minutes ago, forbzy said:

When fully fit I think both are good LB options. Not sure we will be able to keep both happy in the long term as I am not convinced Cucurella is good enough at LCB. I suspect one of the 2 players will leave. 

Not sure I agree and I've actually been fighting against this argument about having this alleged 'abundance' of quality in the squad and how players will get upset over game time. 

There's going to be enough game time to go around. This season and especially last season proved as such. 

 

1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Not sure I agree and I've actually been fighting against this argument about having this alleged 'abundance' of quality in the squad and how players will get upset over game time. 

There's going to be enough game time to go around. This season and especially last season proved as such. 

 

I hope you are right. Would be good to have 2 quality options at LB/LWB and we need to aim for the same on the right.

2 hours ago, forbzy said:

When fully fit I think both are good LB options. Not sure we will be able to keep both happy in the long term as I am not convinced Cucurella is good enough at LCB. I suspect one of the 2 players will leave. 

If one does go it had better not be Chilwell, I will be extremely gutted. 

This is why we have quality backup/competition.  Its early days and the fee was obviously high, but give him an extended run at left back (ideally) or LWB if we persist with this ridiculous back 3.

 

Looking that we spent 62mill on a one season  wonder, Brightons version of Emerson.

13 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Looking that we spent 62mill on a one season  wonder, Brightons version of Emerson.

Makes you wonder why Tuchel wanted him.

 

36 minutes ago, Term_X said:

 

2 things stand out .. one wtf was havertz doing.. cost us the goal basically… should never have reached the penalty boxz

second we got mugged .. and I don’t think Cucu is the only dud we bought from Brighton.

20 minutes ago, just said:

Makes you wonder why Tuchel wanted him.

 

Makes you wonder if he did. We're any of them other than Auba TT signings? Maybe they all were i dont know. Either way we wasted a heap of money in the summer and it looks like we are going to miss out on a heap more with the top 4 moving away.

On 01/11/2022 at 13:21, axman2526 said:

Hmm based on what we have seen I would venture that:

Better at heading the ball: Chilwell

Better engine: Cucurella

Better technique/ball control: Cucurella

Better defender: Chilwell

Better crossing: Chilwell

Better passing: Cucurella

Better finishing: Chilwell

I think after recent showings, I wouldn't I have Cucurella better at Chilwell in any area.

26 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

I think after recent showings, I wouldn't I have Cucurella better at Chilwell in any area.

Chillwell has been ass too though.

Cucurella hasn't even had a good run of games atLB/LWB.

Cucurella started well in his first few games. He's not a LCB, he shouldn't ever play there. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for now, as I defintely think there's a good player in there. It's not his fault Bohley doesn't know how to value a football player.

Cucurella's doing alright. I thought he played [relatively] well today. He certainly seems like a sage purchase considering Chilwell's injury problems.

58 minutes ago, jack_super_class said:

Chillwell has been ass too though.

Cucurella hasn't even had a good run of games atLB/LWB.

Chilwell has been very good for us overall but his bottom level is everybit as bad as we have seen from Cucurella.

Neither of those two will truly make the LB/LWB position their own like Reece has on the other side, it will be a rotated position based on form and opponents.

43 minutes ago, Argo said:

Chilwell has been very good for us overall but his bottom level is everybit as bad as we have seen from Cucurella.

Neither of those two will truly make the LB/LWB position their own like Reece has on the other side, it will be a rotated position based on form and opponents.

Even at his bottom level, I have never seen Chilwell perform as badly for us as I have seen from Cucurella at times, especially today. I thought he was awful. Saka's a good player, but Cucurella look frightened of him. He panicked every time he went up against him. 

28 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Even at his bottom level, I have never seen Chilwell perform as badly for us as I have seen from Cucurella at times, especially today. I thought he was awful. Saka's a good player, but Cucurella look frightened of him. He panicked every time he went up against him. 

He may well have had a Malouda year last season and Brighton made off brilliantly from it.

Looks rather slow, weak, short, average defender, average dribbler and average creator. Can't believe i'm saying it but not sure he's an upgrade on Alonso. 

55 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Looks rather slow, weak, short, average defender, average dribbler and average creator. Can't believe i'm saying it but not sure he's an upgrade on Alonso. 

He must have some qualities we haven't seen yet.

 

But yesterday he really couldn't have been any worse,we were almost better 10 men rather than have him giving away free kicks and passing to the opposition .☹️

i liked him at the start of the season but so far he regressed. The thing he had over Chilwell was his very rapid and kinda creative approach in attack.
Now that wears off he just seem a very average player. He is kinda fast but not very fast and his defending is no better than Chilwell or Alonso. One of the latter two would have surely gotten on the score sheet lately. He is weaker and his passing is nothing special.

That how i see it so far but it can very well change, so lets see what the season holds for him.