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There's always one...
You can say whatever you like, but that doesn't make it true.
Playing the guy about 4 yards offside whilst his CB partner is snoozing and someone has nailed his keeper to the goal line.
Bailly went rogue. Watch it again. He was with Zapata then lost him ridiculously, a simple ball over the top and he was in on goal.
So you're just going to pretend he wasn't at fault for their second, over committed for their first, and was run off time and again by their CF? Sure. Ok.
Watch the goal. Bailly didn't look across the line once. Not once. He had no bloody clue where the line was.
Never heard of an offside trap? Come on now behave
He doesn't need to, Maguire does as he's the one looking at the entire fecking line.
I watched it again and he stepped in front and Maguire was slow as feck to see the trap.
He is the opposite of Varane who makes the difficult look easy. Bailly makes the easy look difficult
Oh Bailly is playing offside now? Despite not once looking axross the line. Yeah, behave.
He also said Maguire should a) be in line and b) be closer to Bailly to close the gap.
He was holding the line, unfortunately Maguire didn't.
Yes, you could say that, he shouldn't have let Zapata run past him, but Maguire should be the covering player. Varane would have been much closer, and would have snuffed that out, Maguire is just not with it at the moment, he needs a break I think. Not sure that the first goal is his fault.
Course he does.
Give the guy a break for heaven's sake.
Yup. But I'm not trying to make out Maguire wasnt terrible. Does Maguire's horrendous performance mean Baillys errors are erased? If Varane is in that situation we wouldn't even be discussing it.
Why? Because Maguire (and you know I love Maguire) simply looking across his line, which is his number 1 fecking job from where he is and it's not a goal. Maguire actually instantly sticks his hand up because he think he's played him off.
You’ve mistaken this for the Maguire thread.
And Jake was questioning the tactical coaching on this? I know he's not the ex footballer here, but you evaluate what was the better decision in that moment. The ball is on Bailly's side of the pitch, and he decided to push forward to negate players running behind; Maguire was too slow too react to that as well as react to cover Bailly's advance. That's my opinion.
