- Oct 19, 2004
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA blaming Dier for Walker miscontrolling a football and having a complete lack of awareness.
And then also blaming Dier because Southgate obviously told the whole team to drop deep, stay compact and defend a 1-0 lead in the last 10 minutes.
Jordan Henderson's penalty? That was probably Dier's fault as well.
Seriously, how do people take this kind of shit seriously? It would be a joke if it wasn't so mind-numbingly tedious and so fucking obviously stemming from bias. It's pretty much just a self-parody now.
Im not blaming Dier for Walker's error, Walker has never needed any help there, but that passage, in fact Dier's whole cameo in that game at CM, was a great example of what I'd said previously. His uncomfortableness under pressure - in this case minimal pressure - puts pressure on the team. England were on the attack, in Columbia's half, Dier was in acres of space with options, and it ends up with Columbia baring down on Englands's goal.
You have no idea what Gareth Southgate told them to do, but he definitely didn't tell the team to drop deep, managers rarely do, they don't want to invite the kind of pressure that leads to exactly what happened. Poch has said the same numerous times, that dropping deep, and stopping playing football, is not something he tells the team to do, it's invariably just player instinct. And Dier is often a major facilitator of this.
If you have trouble taking me seriously, then listen to Michael Cox (Zonal Marking.net football analyst and author/writer) on the Totally Football Podcast after the England game. He says exactly the same thing. Dier's appearance in CM completely changed Engalnd's dynamics and as soon as he was put back in defence and Henderson put back in the centre of midfield England got a hold of the game again and started playing football again.
I think it speaks volumes that a player as ordinary as Henderson is rightly being preferred to Dier, especially in a CM3 with two AM's as 8's.