Look at today for example. Yes Doku completed some dribbles, but most times Trent funneled him to the byline or inside and Doku wasn’t really threatening for the most part. Yet the prevailing narrative is that he got destroyed by Doku.

He has actually been decent to good at defending this season yet people say he’s been a horrific defender. I don’t think this is quite true if you watch him play.

I won’t claim that he’s an amazing defender but he’s not a bad one either, he’s just a perfectly average to good defender but the narrative is that he’s a liability. It’s frustrating to see.

  • link_the_fire_skelly@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Allison caught the whole team by surprise, Van Dijk and Matip also got “rinsed.” It was a good counter attack off a large distribution error. Trent made a lot of big defensive plays today

    • appealtoreason00@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Alisson made the initial error, then Szoboszlai and TAA got beaten far, far too easily.

      Yes, the distribution error made the opportunity in the first place. But Liverpool don’t concede there if Aké doesn’t take two defenders out of the game with a pretty simple sidestep

    • Imaginary-Pattern802@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      yeah i actually was impressed. but 3 players in that sequence could’ve done slightly better and they wouldn’t have conceded