What do we all make of him? I'm not convinced. Giving Kyle Walker acres of space last night to run down the right wing. Noticed it quite a few times Walker was virtually left alone to do what he wanted. If Zaha wasn't out there tracking back I think Walker would have ben a lot more dangerous.

Not convinced about him at left-back either.
He is one of those players who can play up front, out wide and has played at left-back of course but never really impresses that much in any position.
"Jack of all trades, master of none" ?
Maybe he will improve defensively under Allardyce and we will be talking about a good left-back in the future !

I heard people shouting at him when Walker got the ball on a couple of occasions, my conclusion was they weren't understanding the game and how to defend against Tottenham. If Schlupp goes out there he leaves a huge space in between where Alli or Eriksen can be a threat.

Townsend lost Walker on a couple of occasions, Schlupp's instructions were to maintain our compact shape.

That was my assessment of the first half anyway, second half it's difficult to tell as I'm seated in the opposite corner to where Walker was attacking us.

All that said, Schlupp did have a poor game in terms of his distribution, we had the chance to counter a few times down the left and he failed to make the pass. I rate him defensively but not so much attacking from what I've seen so far. I hope Van Aanholt starts vs Burnley.

I think he's a winger who can be played at left back whereas van Aanholt is a left back who can overlap on the left wing very well. Schlupp's main attribute is his pace: putting him at left back is not exactly out of position. He had a good burrowing run at the bin dippers' defence on Sunday and nearly exposed them.

I wonder if Sam might not have removed Puncheon, moved Schlupp up to the wing, and brought van Aanholt in at left back. I think he was preparing van Aanholt when Sakho got injured and then decided (I don't know why) to replace Benteke with Campbell instead. I suppose he wanted to rest the latter, though.

People here were concerned about van Aanholt's defending when we bought him but after the first couple of matches and certainly since he scored that goal he's looked pretty good to me.

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PVA was about to come on to help him out against Sissoko and Walker but then they scored and he was told to go and sit back down again.

I think he's a bit dodgy too. Plays like a winger being asked to cover a LB position, and has no composure when defending. Recently he's done quite well but in the 2nd half yesterday, he kept tucking in too much and leaving too much space on the right for Spurs.