Brought in on transfer deadline day after the departure of Luke Young to QPR, Hutton has made 3 Premier League appearances for Villa. I don't think many people can argue that he has had a slow start as our new right back, but considering the circumstances I'm not surprised at all. Hutton recently lifted the lid on what his life was like at White Harte Lane and it didn't sound great for him. It very much reminded me of what Stephen Warnock had to endure last season under Gerard Houllier once he had fallen out of favour. Left out in the cold to rot in the reserves/youth team.
For those reasons I'm not going to judge him until he has had a run of at least 10 games so he can get back to match sharpness. He has said so himself that he can't be expected to play to his maximum potential straight away after spending so long without competitive football. From what I saw of him when he used to play regularly for Spurs he looked like a very attack minded full back who could cause opposition defences problems with his overlapping runs. Defensively he looked a bit dodgy, conceding lots of fouls in and around the box so he must cut that out sharpish.
It's hard to give him a rating so soon after joining but I'm going to do it presuming he gets back to his best form that we saw a couple of years ago.
Rating - 7/10
No comments:
Post a Comment