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.
Some of the goals he gets blamed for is laughable. The CL final when Vinicius jr scored at the back post, what was Trent supposed to do single handedly cover the entirety of the right half of the box? Robertson was the one who allowed the cross to go in. I remember when 6ft4 Mitrovic outjumped Trent for the ball, whilst being behind Trent and using him as leverage and scored a header and somehow Trent was getting blamed for that. There was a point where every goal Liverpool conceded people were trying to find a way to blame him