SadlerMUFC
Thinks for himself
Stop with the agenda crap. Your stats mean nothing when you don't add context. How is it possible that he gets a lot of touches? Because everyone BUT HIM is marked tight. He is always left open on purpose. Because he is no threat to the other team. He can't create anything, he can't give a proper deep ball. You see what happens when Martinez gets on. The tempo goes up. He gets the ball? Forward pass, immediately. Maguire does not do that. They are night and day.
But if others are marked, how is Maguire at fault? Well, because he touches the ball 5-6 times every time and doesn't make a decision. He holds up play when he doesn't need to, so it's easy to defend our team when he's on the ball. Leeds have all the time in the world to set up. If you watch the game there are multiple sequences where he just stands there with the ball at his feet for 10 seconds straight. You know he's not going to do anything. Leeds know he's not going to do anything and multiple times he even passed it right in their defenders' feet with a supposed long ball or he almost gifts them a goal.
Gameplanning against players like him and Fred that lack footballing ability, football IQ and decisionmaking is easy. Leeds showed that twice. The fact you don't even see it yourself is beyond me, you've been watching this guy for how many games/years now? And you still choose to defend him, when it's clear he's a massive problem to how this team operates. That is, of course, assuming you watch the games. But since you are so adamant on lecturing others with stats that don't give any proper representation of his play other than it just being a bunch of numbers, I'm not sure you do.
Maybe its unfair that I criticize Maguire because its not his fault that he's a wildly mediocre football player that teams know how to exploit. He is way out of his depth in this team. But we've had to sit through his atrocious play for what, 3 years now? I'm tired of it. He needs to go to a team that doesn't play with a high line and doesn't play out from the back. Maybe then he'll have some value. But not for us.
Stop with the agenda crap. Your stats mean nothing when you don't add context. How is it possible that he gets a lot of touches? Because everyone BUT HIM is marked tight. He is always left open on purpose. Because he is no threat to the other team. He can't create anything, he can't give a proper deep ball. You see what happens when Martinez gets on. The tempo goes up. He gets the ball? Forward pass, immediately. Maguire does not do that. They are night and day.
But if others are marked, how is Maguire at fault? Well, because he touches the ball 5-6 times every time and doesn't make a decision. He holds up play when he doesn't need to, so it's easy to defend our team when he's on the ball. Leeds have all the time in the world to set up. If you watch the game there are multiple sequences where he just stands there with the ball at his feet for 10 seconds straight. You know he's not going to do anything. Leeds know he's not going to do anything and multiple times he even passed it right in their defenders' feet with a supposed long ball or he almost gifts them a goal.
Gameplanning against players like him and Fred that lack footballing ability, football IQ and decisionmaking is easy. Leeds showed that twice. The fact you don't even see it yourself is beyond me, you've been watching this guy for how many games/years now? And you still choose to defend him, when it's clear he's a massive problem to how this team operates. That is, of course, assuming you watch the games. But since you are so adamant on lecturing others with stats that don't give any proper representation of his play other than it just being a bunch of numbers, I'm not sure you do.
Maybe its unfair that I criticize Maguire because its not his fault that he's a wildly mediocre football player that teams know how to exploit. He is way out of his depth in this team. But we've had to sit through his atrocious play for what, 3 years now? I'm tired of it. He needs to go to a team that doesn't play with a high line and doesn't play out from the back. Maybe then he'll have some value. But not for us.
Stopped reading after the the first paragraph. You obviously only saw what you wanted to see. If you actually watched you would have seen the NONE OF THE LEEDS PLAYERS WERE CLOSING DOWN ANY OF OUR DEFENDERS, NOT JUST MAGUIRE. Sorry for yelling. Their 3 forwards were sitting in back of 3. Once a defender would pass the ball they would then close down the midfielder. This happened whether it was Maguire passing, Shaw passing, or any other defender passing. In fact, they kept up quite an impressive half press for 60-70 minutes of the game before running out of steam. But go on...tell me again how it was all Maguire and me thinking you have an agenda is nonsense