Neville Kneville
Well-Known Member
That is the flip side of the coin and a point many people, including myself, have stuggled with at the outset.
Now we have a more than competent keeper and a team pressing from the front you can see the value given by a keeper who can knock the ball out accurately, play a long ball and is comfortable sniffing out danger on the edge of his box like a sweeper. Similarly the same goes for the CBs and Ota's ball through the lines to KDB perfectly illustrates this. Individually they may not be the best defenders, in the more traditional sense, but arguably the trade off now seems worthwhile having decent footballers back there to assist in the domination of the football.
I still want to fid a a world class cb, irrespective tbh.
As priority.
But if the current back 4 played as they did today, I would not promote said player ahead of the current two.
Same with Kompany, he's lost his place now imo & is no longer the main cb,