No that's not an excuse, there are two midfielders ahead of him. Jones should be holding a line and preventing the pass and if Jones holds his position and the pass is played, all he has to do is step forward and intercept it.
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- Goals
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No that's not an excuse, there are two midfielders ahead of him. Jones should be holding a line and preventing the pass and if Jones holds his position and the pass is played, all he has to do is step forward and intercept it.
Where were they then? You can talk about ifs and buts all day, but that's football. That's like me saying, if Blind pressed then maybe Jones would have held the line, which meant no goal. Or maybe, had Jones not pressed and somehow West Brom still scored, some of you lot still be blaming him for not pressing.
Whether they press or not is irrelevant. Marking the striker behind him is Jones' priority in that situation regardless.
Like I said, I don't think Jones is blameless. I agree with what you're saying.
Where we differ is that I blame Rafael for not reacting and adapting to Jones' movement. Jones going rambo is no excuse for switching off.
It's not like there was a significant amount of time for Rafael to make that decision, for him to play the striker off-side they would have to move out together. Jones moves up, the pass is played and bang, Rafael should probably have anticipated better but Jones' movement was unnecessary and I guess none of his fellow defenders expected him to charge out like that.
No, the striker, as they were playing with one uptop, is both the centre backs priority, therefore, if one defender presses (Jones), then the other one drops (Rojo).
man, Phil Jones fulfills almost every single feature of the stereotypical English footballer
How did you get this?First three PL matches (defensive stats + overall rating):
It tells the majority of the story. Jones has played more times as a CB than RB and CM. He still has more game experience than the average 22 year old defender. Its a short career, and with his early initiation he should realistically be hitting his prime in about 2-3 years.
It's from whoscored - in other words Opta stats.
If you mean specifically how did I get it in that particular format, the answer is that I pasted it together myself for the sake of saving space.
If you mean specifically how did I get it in that particular format, the answer is that I pasted it together myself for the sake of saving space.
So it seems that Jones is injured again.
Who would've thought.
Who would've thought.
He will never fulfil his potential unless he starts treating his body like Giggs. Yoga and random sex with your in-laws every other day.
Seriously, feck him. Honestly had enough.
This is beyond a joke now.
Extremely worrying that someone so young is so prone to injury. Needs to take some advice from Giggs and somehow find a way to stay fit. I wonder how much time he spends in the gym or doing something similar (e.g. Yoga) to keep himself in top shape.
Its beyond ridiculous at this point though.
Its beyond ridiculous at this point though.
if true.Agreed. Just sell him. He has the potential to be a world class defender, but he's more trouble than he is worth now. We can't rely on him or Smalling to even play, let alone fulfill their potential.
LVG should buy like 3 new defenders and sell these two.
I'm losing so much hope of him becoming a future starter for us. At this rate all he'll be is squad depth.
Get a new CB or two ASAP. Just can't trust these fecking brittle players to get a decent run of games any more.
Get a new CB or two ASAP. Just can't trust these fecking brittle players to get a decent run of games any more.
You can only laugh
He can't stay fit, and when he plays his lack of positional awareness is a worry.
Wage thief should be sold in the summer. He's an absolute joke.
With every injury that goes by, his alleged potential seems to grow.
On one training video I've seen he does squats totally wrong, maybe that's one of the problems and he's injuring himself constantly.
I've been a Jones defender -- that is, defending Jones from his critics -- but I've run out of defenses for him. The man can injure himself even watching film of next week's opponent.
Any news on what type of injury before we start crucifying him?
I'm really sick of him 
It isn't funny anymore with him!!!!!!
It isn't funny anymore with him!!!!!!
No time for that!
I'm really sick of him
It isn't funny anymore with him!!!!!!
We have Hargo back...in a way
To think we could have had Varane
Apparently injured himself and Falcao in training, get him out the club, his recklessness is costing us now, when it comes to injuring other players from our team I think that's his signal to leave
To think we could have had Varane
No we couldn't, he rejected us for Madrid and said some very disparaging things about us afterwards.
just feck him off already - what's the point in keeping him if he's always bloody injured!
All 3 of our first choice RCB's are crocks.
Source?
Well then will have to feck off SMalling, Evans too and Rafael maybe as well.
I should probably know better but seen it posted a couple of times on twitter earlier, around dinner time
http://www1.skysports.com/football/...-move-to-man-utd-after-they-signed-phil-jones
One of the reasons was us signing Jones.
His arse most likely.