Nikelesh Reddy
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I”ve been thinking about this over the last few weeks.Okay,Harry got off to a shaky start which was probably understandable,but there’s been considerable improvement in his all round defensive game over the last few weeks.But I”m still not happy with his ball distribution skills...Remember,we signed him for 80 million quid because he was supposed to be a solid central defender who knew how to play the ball forward.
Honestly I”ve not seen much distribution from Maguire this season.When we come up against teams who drop deep and play with a low defensive block,we either need our forwards to press higher up the pitch(therefore we need our defensive line to move higher up as well),or we need our central defenders and defensive midfielder to quickly play the ball forward.We have the attacking players with the right attributes to press high up the pitch,but because Maguires not comfortable playing in a high defensive line,and because he’s not good running back towards his own goal we haven’t been employing this tactic.
So we therefore need better distribution from both Lindelof and Maguire.I actually think that Lindelofs distribution has consistently been better than Maguires...What do you guys reckon?Is Maguire not distributing the ball as well as we can,or did we just over hype his distribution skills?
Honestly I”ve not seen much distribution from Maguire this season.When we come up against teams who drop deep and play with a low defensive block,we either need our forwards to press higher up the pitch(therefore we need our defensive line to move higher up as well),or we need our central defenders and defensive midfielder to quickly play the ball forward.We have the attacking players with the right attributes to press high up the pitch,but because Maguires not comfortable playing in a high defensive line,and because he’s not good running back towards his own goal we haven’t been employing this tactic.
So we therefore need better distribution from both Lindelof and Maguire.I actually think that Lindelofs distribution has consistently been better than Maguires...What do you guys reckon?Is Maguire not distributing the ball as well as we can,or did we just over hype his distribution skills?