Mangala excels at the inopportune, horrible pass - right to an opponent or zipped to a covered team mate. He keeps doing this, game after game.
I hope he never starts any P/L game - and only starts when we're so far ahead in other fixtures that gifting goals isn't likely to matter.
For God sakes, start a fit Kompany unless the fixture does't matter - and bring in a world-classish replacement for Kompany as soon as possible - Stones and Otters are excellent - but if we could bring in someone better than either of those, we'd be far better off.
Vs Huddersfield, late in the game, Otamendi passed a ball from inside our box, directly to an oppo player outside our box, approaching, with team mates around him.
It was an awful, potentially disasterous mistake. They didn't score though & I'm not even sure they got a shot off. Kompany & Stones have done similar, as has Walker & KDB on numerous occasions at the halfway line or deeper & most of the time, unless it's a direct backpass, it doesn't result in a goal.
It lloks bad, but it rarely is. Same with Mangala.
BUT when he came on to win the ball in the air etc, the first thing he did, was run underneath it & lose the challenge leaving a gap behind.
That imo, is the problem with Mangala: he often doesn't do, what it says on the tin. If he did, I don't personally care if he gives away 1 goal per season with a bad pass.
He isn't defending to the required level & needs a big improvement.