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Originally Posted by Pogue Mahone
Was watching the reserves last night and it suddenly struck me that Pique is an extremely classy footballer, except for one weakness - defending!
Every time he brings the ball out of defence he looks like a man amongst boys, composed, strong as an ox, great touch, vision and a decent passer of the ball.
But when he has strikers running at him, with the ball at their feet, he just seems to fall to pieces. All they have to do is kick and rush, next thing he's flailing in their wake, grabbing fistfuls of their shirt. Extremely lucky not to get sent off last night.
Which begs the question. Should we be grooming him for a role in midfield? By all accounts, that's where he did his best work in Spain.
Or is this headless chicken defending just a blip in his development?
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This poor defending comes form the fact, as Paddy
said recently, reserve football is too easy. So he is being unfocused .We need to get him more first team game pronto. If that fails. There is always midfield. He would be class there