It wasn't the greatest pass but dembele mucked about with the ball which brought on unnecessary pressure and laid a poor pass to Chirches and still the situation could have been saved had Paulinho not pulled out of the challenge.
You forgot to mention Vlads intervention on Remys first chance as well.
Slate the boy all you like, hes a quality defender.
Didnt you say lukaku would destroy vlad?
I stated many times I think our defence is solid and that includes dawson.Yes Dembele did but we had recovered from that and moved into a controlled situation again, therefore his mistake was not caused by earlier instances. He played a pass which had it been at the right pace would have been a good one, unfortunately that was not the case.
Yes Paulinho's tackle was poor but you look to the root cause, not abdicate blame onto someone else who didn't get you out of trouble as others did who tried to criticise Friedel and put the goal at his door.
I think the fact he is so comfortable on the ball actually negatively affects people's perception of his defensive abilities. He is no worse than Dawson, and his positioning is fine. Like Lloris he prevents attacks and pressure building by relieving it himself through his composure. Times where a defender would hoof a ball out under pressure only for it to come back to us, he would take a risk in order to look for a teammate. It's proactive defending.
Ive read from fans of other teams that Vertonghen is just a good ball playing CB who can get goals. When we all know he is a great defender. When a CB's style goes against the grain that's all they will be recognised for
He's in training for Romanian
I did, fortunately Sandro and the midfield were excellent in not allowing balls into him but I suppose you missed that as well.
By the way I haven't slated him, I merely mentioned his over hit passed cost us the game, that#s all. Slating in my opinion requires a little more than one line.
I did, fortunately Sandro and the midfield were excellent in not allowing balls into him but I suppose you missed that as well.
By the way I haven't slated him, I merely mentioned his over hit passed cost us the game, that#s all. Slating in my opinion requires a little more than one line.
All i saw was Lukaku bouncing off Sandro until Luklessku was subbed.You forgot to mention Vlads intervention on Remys first chance as well.
Slate the boy all you like, hes a quality defender.
Didnt you say lukaku would destroy vlad?
Bollollocks! Watch it again. No way was that a poor pass. Paulhino who the ball was pased to, made the ball pass him not seeing the Newcastle player who intercepted. Had Paulhino collected the ball properly as he should have done, then there would have been no goal.You forget his poor pass the led to the goal and resulted in us losing.