True but losing inside or just outside the box is a defensive mistake just like Mendy being robbed of the ball against Wolves for their second goal, to me that was a fucking howler.Losing possession is not a defensive mistake in my opinion. Two I can remember without trying to find the post were Walker against Mane and Otamendi failing to close down a shot at Wolves. Ederson's goalkeeping mistakes at Trafford too.
Please can l call him 'Ronnie' as its a nice name and he is a nice modest bloke.;)Agreed. It also makes a person sound like a car to me (but then, that's logical, because it's part of the marketing strategy).
On that subject, saw an absolutely pristine TR4 parked in the street the other day. I stopped to admire it discreetly, because I dreamt for a while of owning one of those.
It has nothing to do with their ability to defend and everything to do with their ability to play football, again it's only my opinion so open to interpretation. I wouldn't criticise Aguero for a defensive mistake if he lost possession and the opposition broke away and scored for example, as that's what he's asked to do. Same with Otamendi and Zinchenko in those situations, they're asked to play, even when the situation possibly warrants them to kick it 80 yards into row z. We take risks in possession, I don't see those as defensive mistakes but each to their own.True but losing inside or just outside the box is a defensive mistake just like Mendy being robbed of the ball against Wolves for their second goal, to me that was a fucking howler.
True but losing inside or just outside the box is a defensive mistake just like Mendy being robbed of the ball against Wolves for their second goal, to me that was a fucking howler.
It has nothing to do with their ability to defend and everything to do with their ability to play football, again it's only my opinion so open to interpretation. I wouldn't criticise Aguero for a defensive mistake if he lost possession and the opposition broke away and scored for example, as that's what he's asked to do. Same with Otamendi and Zinchenko in those situations, they're asked to play, even when the situation possibly warrants them to kick it 80 yards into row z. We take risks in possession, I don't see those as defensive mistakes but each to their own.
I understand your position, I really do because as Pep calls it our defensive "stability" comes from retaining possession. In the traditional sense however, I don't think anyone would agree that losing possession is a defensive mistake. It's a bit ambiguous because our style is so different to most other teams, we play in areas most teams are scared of playing in and as a result we occasionally gift a goal to the opposition. Acceptable risks because they create so much at the other end when we get it right, which is most of the time.They become defensive mistakes, because we are poor at basic coalface defending imo & we are slow at covering apart from a couple of players.
If our basic premise is that press, win the ball, then we mostly keep the ball & stop counter attacks when we lose it, but we can't actually stop the counter attacks, then losing the ball becomes a defensive mistake, whether we like it ir not.