Guardiola can have him.
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I think his defending on that first goal was a bit "midfieldy", when you know you can let your opponent ghost because on the turn you have a team-mate behind you that you can close space on as he pushes up. He's definitely been worth his salt for defendings sake this season. But I am not sure about the long-term aspect of him playing in the center of defense if he is going to make a key mistake like this first goal. Smalling waiting in the wings is definitely a good scenario for us to have, not sure if this is the right time to hook Daley I think he still has some credit in the bank but I wasn't really impressed with his defending today.
Pretty much as I saw it. Looks like it's totally on Blind in real time but from the first replay it was clear what had happened.
But if Blind doesn't have excellent positional sense then there would be a fair few more examples, especially from prem league football. It's like saying Ibra isn't a great finisher because he missed a couple of really good opportunities today, occasionally, these things happen.
Sort of agree with this. Had a bad day for me.
Defense has to be no nonsense first in the toughest matches. Blind made an amazing pass to Rashford, but that pass is not worth the defensive liability he brings against the top attacking teams. It's about balance. There are games where Blind should start and others where Smalling/Jones would provide a more solid defense with Bailly.
Even though bailly did the first mistake for the first goal? ok. If we are going tho hook CBs for their mistake, should do with every CB who makes any mistake no?
Why did Blind just stand there hands out wide, should have went for the ball and took out everything
The ball to release Rashford was phenomenal. His best moment in an awful performance but the whole team looked better once Herrera came on to add numbers in midfield.
Had an off day but it didn't help that City sliced through our midfield like a knife through butter leaving our defence exposed time and time again. When we reverted to an actual sensible formation everyone looked a lot more solid including Blind.
Just ignore him, I boxed him into a corner last week where he just refused to respond, he's adamant Blind is the equivalent of playing Bosnich there.
It is because we tried to attack and played some ball on the floor which some of our players are more than capable of doing it. Not all players are built for hoofing the ball for both attacking and defending.
That was the only option. Go in, go hard and hope it's only a yellow card.
Did better in the 2nd half. I'm hoping though Smalling and Bailly start together against Feyenoord. Maybe play Blind at left back to give Shaw a bit of a break if he can't play more than 1 game a week.
No chance he would get away with a yellow, that early on against a passing team like City would be suicide.
Sadly it's still his achilles heel, he has such a midfield mindset and can't defend ugly even when desperately required. Going in hard there would have a yellow at worst due to how fast it happened.
Biggest difference between him & Mascherano.
Go caught flat-footed and slow to react for the first goal. It was entirely his fault.
That's your issue? The he avoids blatant red cards?
Ye I know, but apparantly Clatterburg left his red card at home...Bravo!
That's a red all day long, it would be idiotic to go down to 10 men that early on against a team that keeps the ball so well.
Same thing can say about bailly for the first goal. He didn't even jump properly despite he was with the city player.
Third Newcastle goal. He wasn't at fault there but he moved into a position that would have played any Newcastle player who could have pounced on the rebound onside. Similar to what happened today.
Too far away from Smalling on that third Spurs goal, allowing Lamela into that central position to score.
You can pull up lots of shit about any CBs atm like that.
If he is a shit defender and positioning is so bad, i wonder what LVG saw in him. And Jose.
These aren't example of poor positoning, you can over analysis any game to this measure and every defender in the world would be guilty of poor positoning 15 times a game. Pretty much every goal that's ever been scored you can say a defender could've been slightly better positioned.
He is football player not a bus driver.
Deer in headlights during the first half. Totally lost his head and ended up chasing shadows. Never seen his composure go to s-t like that before.
I think this sums it up. LOL
Yeah I can't remember who said (probably tons of people) but every goal is disappointing and every goal has someone to blame (to an extent).
He wasn't under pressure as consistently in the second half, and even then...he was just alright. He didn't do a lot that was particularly remarkable and it doesn't make up for the calamity of a first half performance.
What? I like Smalling, but I've been critical of him at times like I have been of Blind. I can't be arsed with all the fanboying shite at all.
Had his good and bad moments. Frustrating that a mistake cost us a goal.
So he's given you examples of Blind's poor positioning, and now you've said it doesn't count...because every player is positioned poorly sometimes?
If that's the case then I assume we're not allowed to criticise anyone else for it? Why aren't Blind's fans able to admit when he's had a poor game? I like the player myself and I'm glad he's still featuring for us because I think he's a very good squad player, but he was shite today and the range of excuses and strawmen arguments that are getting posted to try and somehow excuse it are ridiculous.
You're not going to see last ditch tackles and overhead clearances because the other aspects of his game was on point.
Rondon (who has done nothing of note in the Prem) lost him easily for that goal. Positionally aware? Pfft.
So basically you are saying that Blind took every possible precaution for Bailly winning the ball. Yet Blind did not even bothered to take any sort precaution for Bailly losing this challenge and Iheanacho making this flick. That is why he is such a shit defender. A proper CB does not anticipate his partner to win all the challenges, he actually adjusts his positioning and play thinking that he could lose and you would need to cover.
In this exact situation Blind needed to be either much closer to Bailly, so that flick would fall to him, or to react much faster than he did. Instead he is stuck in no mans land, absolutely the same way he was stuck there for the second goal. Not only that he is to bothered to actually chase the guy.
Very poor today, wasn't as good on the ball too. Shouldn't play in games like this, IMO. Teams like Hull are perfect for him, it allows him to push up and control the backline. We should Smalling a go now.
Blind is a still good at back, but he's not suited to what we tried today
Blind is a still good at back, but he's not suited to what we tried today
Thing is though when people criticize him for a poor match, they brought all the shits and nonsense from games of the past. So it works both way?So he's given you examples of Blind's poor positioning, and now you've said it doesn't count...because every player is positioned poorly sometimes?
If that's the case then I assume we're not allowed to criticise anyone else for it? Why aren't Blind's fans able to admit when he's had a poor game? I like the player myself and I'm glad he's still featuring for us because I think he's a very good squad player, but he was shite today and the range of excuses and strawmen arguments that are getting posted to try and somehow excuse it are ridiculous.
Also we are fans of our players. Nothing wrong with it.
Well...again, that's the point. They weren't. I'd be fine with an unspectacular defender if he did his job well as a whole, but that wasn't the case today and the diversion to his second half performance is a nice excuse to try and forget his poor first half one.
It's nonsense because we all know that if Blind comes out with some fantastic crunching slide tackles next week his supporters will be praising him for that. Not that it'd be wrong to do so, of course...but simply saying the good aspects of his game weren't noticeable because he's not a traditional defender doesn't work when he cost us one goal due to dreadful positioning, and was completely switched off for another.
Not a good game from him. He has this weird characteristic of completely giving up as soon as the opposition is through on goal too. He just kind of jogs back with no urgency. Very strange. Anyway, I rate him as a decent defender but I think he's always going to have defensive errors in him when it comes to the better teams. His partner also made some big errors too. I think it is time Smalling replaced one of them.
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