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That's really out of order, those (so called) journalists should be banned from any further Sweden pressers. Question has feck all to do with Lindelof nor the Swedish national team.
That was earlier, not sure it was at a PK or even with the national team.
Because he didn't fecked up a goal. He did his job. You say scruffy game. Did he made a single mistake? He did everything right
Yeah he made a few, held his hand up for a couple.
Average game, scruffy is an accurate descriptor. Was really good first half of the season but past couple months he's tailed off. Kinda coincided with the rotation of cbs.
No one wants to criticise Lindelof anymore for fear of being hounded by his rabid fans.
Did you miss him let Richarlison bring the ball down on the edge of the area unchallenged and get a shot off that De Gea had to produce a great save for?
You have a point there
I had thought he'd been showing some decent improvement in terms of his 1v1s and the like this season.
Didn’t you watch the game? He was pretty crap and all over the place like his partner, at fault for one of the goals unlike his partner. I’m amazed Jones can’t get a look in ahead of both of them, no way Pukki gets the freedom of the pitch numerous times.
No mate, 3pm blackout, I was stuck watching Liverpool beat City on the Beeb with my girlfriends dad who is a Liverpool fan. What a Bank Holiday!
‘Made mistake but decent’
It looked as he thought Telles, who was running back, would cover the side and then Lindelof pushed towards the ball holder. However Telles also turned in to the centre and no one picked up the side.
Mainly because he's barely noticable on the pitch for the majority of the game other than an occasional mistake defensively or a really nice pass forward
If you for some reason believe the numbers of progressive carries and passes are important, you should not include matches for Real Madrid or national teams and instead compare games for the same team. Then you’ll find that Varane and Lindelof have basically the same stats and Harry has still higher. However anybody who has watched the games can see how there is often no point with Harry’s progressive play. Instead of making a fast pass like everybody else, he trots forward slowly with the ball and gives it to someone he could have passed four second earlier. It also rarely creates any chances and that can also be seen in the stats where he is among the worst CBs when it comes to xG assisting and through balls in behind the opponents back line, while Lindelof creates much more ( 67 percentile and 98 percentile in those stats. )
His progressive ball games are poor and defensively is also not offering anything. Not sure how he's going to fit in since he doesn't offer both aspects.
I mean, it's not like Varane and Maguire done amazing. However, in comparison to Lindelof, Lindelof is just worst. He's good at hiding from being responsible to trick people's eye test that it was others fault but the stats don't lie on this that he doesn't offer much. I'm expecting his stats to be similar as Maguire and Varane due to playing in the same team but his stats are actually much worse.
So basically, Varane’s number got higher ever since he joined us? Yeah different club, different team’s style, not rocket science. Same club means you expect the three CB have similar ones unless if one just doesn’t offer much.
If you look at matches for United, Varane and Lindelof have pretty much the same number of progressive passes and carries. However if you look at how much our CBs create offensively with their passes, Lindelof has the best stats, Varane is in the middle and Maguire worst.
Ok so their progressive passes and carries are pretty much the same but it’s just Varane offers more in defensive aspect while Lindelof offers nothing in defensive aspect. That’s back to my original point, lindelof offers worse in the same team.
