KippaxCitizen said:
Sergio<3 said:
Not concentrating nor communicating with anyone for their goal though.
Not just him, as about six players were doing something wrong somewhere in the build up to their goal, but he could have done a lot more to prevent it.
-- Sun Mar 30, 2014 6:18 am --
Ban-jani said:
Man of the match today for me, won fucking everything.
Except for the one most important one he fell asleep on.
That's the point. I get it all the time when discussing defenders 'he was great apart from the two goals he went missing for' etc etc.
Yet, people still go back to mentioning a mistake by Lescott v QPR as if it's an example of his general play, which is so grossly unfair. It only happens to him a few times per season, as it does to Kompany..
Demichelis makes a potentially goal causing mistake or sometimes two or three, in every game he plays. Even when at his best. If he gets away with it, he often has had a very good game, apart from the bit where he almost cost us the game.
His performance v Arsenal was on the whole superb, as it was v Utd. But he went missing for Arsenal's goal & almost cost us several times v Utd, noticably when he just ran away & left Wellbeck unmarked in front of our goal. That was one of the worst bits of defending I've ever seen, but we got away with it.
Had Wellbeck scored, & we failed to find a winner in that game, we would be 3rd favourites for the title today & Demichelis' mistakes would again be highlighted as being the main reason we dropped points (& possibly blew the title). It's a hard job defending in this team, but many of Demichelis' mistakes are actually just down to being careless or having a rush of blood to the head. It's a gamble every time he plays.
When he is at his best, the team play better with him there. But he sails close to the wind in every game & between now & May, he is more likely to cost us the league with mistakes, than he is to win us the league with extrordinary defending.
Hopefully we will get away with it.
