Picked up some stitches and likely out for the weekend match: Paul Hart says three players are a doubt for Saturday’s trip to Millwall, with Bruno Martins Indi feeling better after missing Tuesday’s defeat against Sheffield Wednesday through illness. Cameron Carter-Vickers and Peter Etebo were replaced in the first half at Hillsborough, with the former requiring eight stitches to the area below his knee. https://www.stokecityfc.com/news/2019/october/Three-remain-doubtful-says-Hart/
He has been the best defender for Stoke over the last month or so. He and BMI are really the only ones trusted defensively currently. Stoke going through a bit of an identity crisis right now.
Thank goodness it's a cut and not a muscle tear. He should be fine as long as he's smart about not reopening it.
Sucks for CCV that he's on such a lousy team, but I won't shed a tear if Stoke finds themselves plummeting through the Football League for the next decade.
Starts: 📋 Here is your Stoke City side for tonight's game against @WBA at the bet365 Stadium.#SCFC 🔴⚪️ pic.twitter.com/aXG5WEZmBv— Stoke City FC (@stokecity) November 4, 2019
His father is Howard Carter, who played at LSU and some in the NBA. He eventually played in France, including the French National Team. His mother is English.
Dad is a American, mom English. So he's like the Germericans. BTW, Stoke is losing at home and WBA are leaders if this holds. PS: Stoke is truly terrible, have yet to complete two passes in a row in midfield. CCV has been decent compared to their defenders on the left. CCV is support for their RWB, a guy who was injured and just returned to the first team, Tom Smith.
CCV lucky getting off with a handball in the area. After a play where he tried to hoof it but the ball rebounded in one of the WBA guys to start the chance.
This game reminds me of street soccer: one guy comes, pushes another off the ball, tries to turn, another guy pushes him off the ball, tries to make a pass, yet another guy steals the ball before he can kick it, fails to control it and another guy gets it, and so on. Dire soccer. At least Stoke is trying to do something now in the second half. The midfield battle has been beyond scrappy, fortunately the ref only whistles one out of three fouls.
CCV murders Diangana and WBA gets a PK out of it. The problem with our guy is that he hoofs the ball without looking, so often it ends with one of the rival players after a rebound or a deflection. There's a bit of bad luck there too, I guess, but he needs to hoof the ball into space, not where the wrong shirts are. PS: 0-2, Stoke losing again. CCV is a good candidate for the opposite of MOTM.
Ok, CCV saved their behinds in a counter, where Smith was taken to the cleaners. So point for him. PS: Stoke is lucky if this ends only 0-2. WBA had a header hit the post and has had the bulk of the chances even _after_ the PK that put them up two goals.
Bottom line: CCV is good at sweeping the ball in last-ditch efforts, except when he's not (in which case it's a PK, because the guy can make anyone fly 20 feet), and terrible at playing the ball out of the defensive area, usually costing the team possession. Also, when it comes to body-checking, being 6'1" and built like a Mack truck helps. But he can get the ball stolen from him quick, reason why he must hoof it right away.
Seems a lifetime ago since Poch said he thought CCV would be a better player than him. Solid player, but unlikely to hit the heights he may have projected to 2 or 3 years ago