If he was notably bad in the air in that game you would have remembered it and certainly, others would have and would have made a big deal over it because, like Lindelof, there are always many people waiting for Bailly to make an error. I mean, just look at the way he has been criticised over things like taking a knee in the neck from his own keeper, or having Fred shoot the ball at his hand. I'd imagine any other player gets a pass in these instances.
And yeah I wasn't thinking of Maguire, more of Pogba and AWB. I did think it very unusual for a CM to be in that position but he was in it and should have seen it through, and to be fair he was going to, and he only stops because he thinks he's playing Lookman offside not because he's passing him off to Bailly. I would have expected Bailly to get tighter seeing that Pogba wasn't tracking well, however.
AWB is on the other hand, clearly out of position doing nothing. Should be concentrating much better.
But overall it seems like your criticism is more in the context of Lindelof vs Bailly and in that respect I would have to say I don't think Lindelof is a bad player. He's been very good this season and was certainly so against Liverpool.
So to clarify, you can't remember specific instances of winning the ball in the air, but still maintain I should remember individual instances of him losing the ball in the air? He wasn't atrocious in the air, he just didn't fair any better than Lindelof would've. As I said, I remember thinking: Lindelof would be criticized for that. Unfortunately, when his champions micro analyse every single thing Lindelof does in order to try find fault, they should expect its going to happen to Bailly.
No, he really shouldn't see if through. There is a CB there doing nothing. Expecting Pogba to run past him in order to chase down a CF is completely nonsensical. Pogba has every right to expect Bailly to pick up Lookman. And if, for whatever reason, Bailly can't or won't pick him up, then he needs to vocalize that.
AWB is making a habit of standing half a yard deeper than everyone else. For all his ability in one on one situations, his positional awareness is really quite poor. That said, I don't think we can be too critical here. The offside wasn't really there to be played.
You're right, it is. I like Bailly. I just don't get the clammer to replace Lindelof with him, particularly when Lindelof gets annihilated for making tiny errors while Bailly makes such high profile ones like the one yesterday.