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I just don’t feel like there is much of a gap. I feel like we’re sticking with Raya because we expect him to be better. But I don’t feel like we’ve seen it yet.
I half agree. I think the gap is marginal and a couple things important to Arteta Raya does better, but we have seen him do those things better. Billy’s BBQ summarized them all
The difference is that Raya, rain or sunshine, will folllow instructions, while Ramsdale bailed on his distribution responsibilities when pressed. I don’t know why this isn’t a universal opinion among fans. Ramsdale, apart from his first couple of months, played very safe. It’s not that he didn’t try difficult passes, he did, but he didn’t try them when put under pressure and he didn’t invite pressure to create space often enough.
Ramsdale, you can argue, has close to the same passing range, but not nearly the same bottle to accept and handle the small margins for error to keep the ball the way Raya has. That’s why Arteta took the blame and praised Raya’s uneven performance against City. He appreciated that Raya accepted the role he was given and kept doing it, despite having a couple of very close calls, that could’ve lost us the game.
I think it’s because it’s not set in stone. That’s an area Ramsdale can improve on. Raya is older and consequently more comfortable under pressure
Yeah, Ramsdale needs to take this challenge on and work on improving his distribution. Raya is no Allison, so Ramsdale has the talent to regain the starting position, but he is not there right now.
Many have speculated that he needs competition to thrive. Let’s hope he’s motivated to take his place back.
Agreed and amen
there’s not much of a gap, true, but raya does one thing that rambo still does not. (he tried to do it against brentford and it didnt look bad!) that’s basically becoming a lcb during buildup which helps us create overloads. i think if rambo gets the place back, it will be around christmas-january, if not, he is gone in the summer.