Hector Bellerin: The B's Knee

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

He has such huge offensive potential imo, keeps getting into good positions, if he can make it count more often he'll be devastating..

I always harp on about how much better we’d be as a team if Bellerin improved going forward. Love that he’s utilising cutbacks more as opposed to his mediocre crossing.

I think Bellerin is a really likeable lad who you’d be desperate to come good. He has all the tools to be THE best full back in Europe. He just needs to piece it together.

FWIW, he seems a lot better at RB than RWB.

 

[Anders Harbo]

What a disaster, when it comes to defending. His positioning is outright awful. I really don’t care how well he’s developed his offensive game, when he can’t do his most important job, which is defending.

 

[pacstud]

I'll bench you bruh.

This may not have the meaning you intended. Either way I'm out

 

[Trilly]

Yeh, bruh, I bet you could easily. Hit 20 grams of BCAA straight after, though, or you'll go way catabolic, bruh.

Gotta eat every 5 minutes bruh, never ever go catabolic.

 

[Trilly]

FWIW, he seems a lot better at RB than RWB.

Yeah because he’s not offensively talented enough.

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

Yeah because he’s not offensively talented enough.

Probably right. He did have some good games at RWB though.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Best full back talent in the country! Will only get better from now on! Offensive and defensive he is super talent. Can become monster with right coach and if he wants it enough.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

The rumours are that Barca will tempt us with Dembele to get him. I think he can be improved defensively but not since Cesc have I seen a young player come into the team,stay fit and perform fairly well. He's done this having been horribly exposed and overplayed. I just can't dislike the lad.

 

[MaraDon]

on his way to elite.

 

[GeorgiaGunner]

The rumours are that Barca will tempt us with Dembele to get him. I think he can be improved defensively but not since Cesc have I seen a young player come into the team,stay fit and perform fairly well. He's done this having been horribly exposed and overplayed. I just can't dislike the lad.

Would take that swap in an instant, but can't see them giving up on him so quickly.

 

[TromsoGooner]

I like Bellerin but if you get the chance to get Dembele for Bellerin and some cash it`s an easy choice

 

[carlitobrigante]

Has had an awful season. Has gone so far backwards. Never ever tries to beat his man, is looking for a cut back and a backwards pass before he even receives the ball.

 

[kraphtous]

I want to like him, and I was a big fan but I'm not sure what he offers now having regressed since his early days. He's terrible defensively and doesn't offer enough attacking wise to ignore that flaw.

If we don't sell him, at least we need to sign a really good RB to challenge him. Not a youngster, not a CB who can play RB, not a veteran, a really good RB.

 

[Toby]

He's terrible defensively and doesn't offer enough attacking wise to ignore that flaw.

Agree. An assist against CSKA is nice, but can't really mask his regression in the final third and during build up from the back. His passing ranges from conservative to useless to outright dangerous. Even if he overlaps, he's mostly involved far too late to quickly brake towards the line with his pace or provide some dangerous width. He'll mostly just pass it back to the centre or try to somehow combine with his winger. On top of that he's been an absolute liability in defense. He got far too easily skinned by Musa against CSKA.

Overall, it feels like his head has become too slow. That accounts for his defensive sloppiness as well as his failure to be really incisive in the final third. There's nothing sudden or electric about his game anymore and he's too average regarding basics like crossing and passing and defensive positioning, right now.

There's still a player in there, but I don't know hot to get that out of him. Maybe some nice competition will do the trick - after all he's been a guaranteed starter for so long now, no matter how he plays.

 

[El Duderino]

Misses so much from not having someone down the wing with him...

Until we fix this narrow shape we're in, I don't think will see much improvement.

 

[NieThePiet]

Have a huge respect for him this season.
Incredible how fit he is and how many games he is playing. Nearly no breaks for him, good that Wenger subbed him off today.

Poor management not to have a RB-Backup in the squad. I think that Bellerins performances would be much better if he would have pressure on this position. So he knows, that he will play every game anyway. Defensively it's quite good, haven't had an easy job with Nelson today.

 

[Stannis]

Where has AMN gone ?

Thought he look good at RB , could use him for the league right now?

 

[Furious]

Have a huge respect for him this season.
Incredible how fit he is and how many games he is playing.

Time to go vegan lads. Post count will increase by 2000%.

 

[Aevi]

Where has AMN gone ?

Thought he look good at RB , could use him for the league right now?

Heard he's got a minor injury. This is all I can find on it though:

 

[BBF]

Needs to be coached properly and given some competition.