QuoteGood lad is Damo.Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
Deserves everything he gets as he's worked hard.
Three successive clean sheets for Delaney and Crystal Palace after their win today.
Good lad is Damo.
Deserves everything he gets as he's worked hard.
On current form, he's nearly as good as St. Ledger.
Another clean sheet for Delaney and Palace today as they best West Ham 1-0 away.
Palace are second only to Liverpool on current form having won 5 in a row.
Obviously Delaney is doing something right.
What might it be tricky, would you say ?
OK here we go:-
6th highest number of clearances per game (9.2)
16th highest number of interceptions per game (2.3)
27th highest number of offsides one. (0.5)
Those seem to be the key things, I imagine a lot of those clearances are headers, indeed :-
Strengths
Aerial Duels Strong Concentration Strong Ball interception Strong
Weakness is passing but, but then in his position getting the ball clear is priority.
Damien Delaney's Style of Play
- Likes to play long balls
- Plays the ball off the ground often
- Clears the ball out of defence often
- Likes to tackle
Clearance and interceptions clearly are very important, defence into attack is very useful in getting results.
There you have it.
Delaney is clearly Dunne's heir apparent and it would make sense to partner him with a younger, technical player in the mould of Wilson or Clark. If O'Shea is getting into the team on name alone then there could be a vacancy at left-back for him.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind any combination from Delaney, Wilson and Clark and/or the old dependables of O'Shea, St Ledger and Dunne but I think Delaney has to be in there because of his form this season.
Hard to disagree with that. He has been outstanding.
O'Shea has reacted well to being dropped against Spurs.
I agree, fair play to Damo.
It wasn't so long ago he was without a club, look at him now!
League form doesn't always mean your going to do it and cope at International level though.
I wish Damo well.
Don't be silly Danny Boy! 😇😄😇
And likewise the lack of any discernible league form doesn't always mean you won't be able to hack it!
Right Sean?
Problem is Delaney is 32, just 2 years younger than Dunne. However maybe he is the type of player who
gets better with age, he's gonna be brilliant when he hits 40!
Us Ireland supporters can get bogged down on age sometimes. Worst case scenario- he partners Wilson/Clark for the next year or 18 months and if he loses his place the other one from Wilson/Clark slots in. Both are playing PL football at the moment but Delaney appears to be coping better than both.
Our defensive options aren't bad at all, at present. If you take into account that Germany, Poland and Scotland are our sternest of opponents in qualification- Klose, Lewandowski and Fletcher. They can cause us hassle but remember how Dunne was able to get the better of an imperious Thierry Henry?
Last edited by Olé Olé; 20/04/2014 at 8:02 AM.
I'm only focused on the current campaign. If Delaney can keep this form going for the next 18 months then super.
We can get a campaign out of Delaney. By the time Euro 2016 rolls around, he will still be younger than Dunne will be in September. 33 isn't too old for a defender and besides, players should be getting into teams and squads purely on merit now; something that didn't happen under the previous regime.
Delaney scored his first Premier League goal tonight in Palace's 3-3 draw with Liverpool; it was a deflected screamer from well outside the box that helped launch his club's amazing comeback in the last ten minutes.
Well that result has pretty much killed off Liverpool's chances (and my bet).
Unless Man City lose to Stoke of course
Man City looks a dead cert, just like Ronnie O Sullivan did yesterday!!
Delaney's reward for a near faultless season at the back for 11th placed Crystal Palace is a place on the bench. Hangeland's reward for getting relegated with 19th placed Fulham is a place in the starting line-up. Palace conceded 48 goals last season. Fulham conceded 85 goals, more than any other team in the league.
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