Look at today for example. Yes Doku completed some dribbles, but most times Trent funneled him to the byline or inside and Doku wasn’t really threatening for the most part. Yet the prevailing narrative is that he got destroyed by Doku.
He has actually been decent to good at defending this season yet people say he’s been a horrific defender. I don’t think this is quite true if you watch him play.
I won’t claim that he’s an amazing defender but he’s not a bad one either, he’s just a perfectly average to good defender but the narrative is that he’s a liability. It’s frustrating to see.
I feel like his goal, while crucial, kind of hides his defensive performance today which, while not disastrous, was once again not up to par for one of the best teams in the world. He got cooked by doku multiple times, and was fortunate that his teammates followed up well and it never resulted in a goal. Him and szoboszlai are also very lax on letting ake through to assist haaland. He may be improving, but his defending is still poor for a player of his caliber
Trent completely shut down Doku, what are you on about? City’s goal was the direct product of Allison slipping and catching his entire team out of position.
He didn’t though. Doku got loads of crosses in and got past him plenty of times. Liverpool just for the most part managed to defend the crosses
https://twitter.com/Hennes_4/status/1728541660194156883?t=Y5Lp1L0OXMY2AJsbu51VsQ&s=19
Stop lying
Are you high? Doku got a ball into a dangerous area on almost every single take on…
https://twitter.com/Hennes_4/status/1728541660194156883?t=Y5Lp1L0OXMY2AJsbu51VsQ&s=19
Doku barely got two crosses in and only one was close to anything dangerous.
He got shut down and had to cut back inside almost all the other times