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 did not see it that way. I felt Doku absolutely ran riot on Liverpool today. It was the final move that just didn’t pan a few times, but the defending against Doku was poor. That being said, Doku has seemed to get the better of almost everybody so far, so it’s not especially bad to hold it against TAA.