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.
Does it ever occur to you why Doku ( excellent dribbler and passer ) wasn’t able to put passes into right places?? Trent isn’t as quick as him but still made huge effort to make sure that Doku doesn’t get the right angles to make a pass in the box…
Doku still passed 2-3 times but they weren’t great passes Bec of the tight af angle…
Do you understand how difficult it is to challenge a city player physically? Refs be smacking their lips & throw around cards as soon as someone touches City players
He put 3 directly into players feet today. Alvarez, Foden and Haaland all blew them.
For the love of god do not talk about refs right now, you had 2 goals blatantly overruled because Alison is treated like a chemo therapy patient while Endo and Graven crunch peoples ankles studs up.
Two goals overruled because the keeper was fouled you moron