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You know what? this makes me even more angry.
No, he wouldn't.
Surely you play him until he plays shit again? When he does, just drop him. If someone plays well, they should be rewarded with more playing time. Especially with Maguire playing like he is.
Neither Shaw or Maguire reacts to Baillys sudden decision to step up because that simply isn't how offside is played. The decision to step up isn't made by a player who has zero information. It's made by players who can see the line. There could be another player making the same run in behind from deep, or we could have a player down injured for all Bailly knows. There could be so much happening behind him that he has no idea of. That's why the studio was critical of his decision. Equally, they were also critical of Maguire then trying to play the offside instead of attempting to cover Baillys mistake. Maguire's further failings doesn't justify Baillys decision making here. But then, this isn't new. We know Bailly takes needless risks.
Re read my message. 100% MORE to blame. Do you understand the term more? It means Maguire takes MORE blame than Bailly on this one, not counting out Baillys mistake.
I've no idea what Bailly was trying to do.
That’s his anticipation getting wrong I think. The guy is a beast and plays ball holding a lot. Bailly seemly wanted to intercept the pass but was shocked they played overhead to run behind.
Bailly's true gift is that when it comes to last ditch tackling or beating a pressing/chasing striker he looks world class, but then as you, say like a conference player in the same 5 minute span.
Playing 3 at the back well is demanding for the CB. 3 at the back would mean that freeing up the wingbacks to stretch the pitch, providing width is uttermost important. It requires good understanding, situational awareness, good positioning and concentration level from the CB. It's not easy to do it well overnight, unless we're talking about box defending, and just putting bodies behind the ball.
Think that's a good read of it.
Thing is he cant be worse than what Maguire is serving up week in week out right now so I do think he deserves another shot.
He has had a torrid few years due to injuries and all but I think we forget that Bailly has played in some big games and done well. Even the manager forgets this too and doesn't seem to trust him to come in and play for a few games whilst Maguire returns to fitness.
At the moment we’ve 2 centre backs so looks like he will be starting
Lindelof should be back, no?
Presumably Maguire is supposed to be setting the line? As he steps in and out the rest of the back line is supposed to follow. It looks like maybe stepped forward a fraction too late (zapata is extremely close to being caught offside) but Bailly is the United defender in that image most obviously out of position. As well as failing to track the run from the player he is marking. There’s a few errors contributing to that goal but Bailly and De Gea make the biggest individual contributions.Shaw is playing him off too, it's a massive Maguire feck up this one. Could DDG do better, no doubt, could Bailly have done different, sure. Could Maguire stop the goal by simply paying attention and doing his one simple job? feck yeah.
There's no reason for Maguire to be 2 yards behind Bailly there, not when he's looking all the way across the line, it's terrible, he's sleeping.
Exactly. He's way too unreliable and chaotic to base a defence around. Not to mention he's made of crisps.
Sorry but this is just not right.
How so? All Maguire had to do there was keep the line of Shaw and Bailly and Zapata would have been off. Bailly wasn't perfect there but the biggest error came clearly from Maguire. Once more. The amount of times he's been responsible for goals conceded this season is crazy. He must be on track for some negative record.
In my (limited) experience as a player an offside line is usually set by everyone keeping in line with one player who sets that line. I don’t know which United player has that responsibility but Maguire would be the most obvious candidate. Especially with Varane off the pitch.
Eric's been worse at times, let's be honest. When Eric's bad he's laughably bad.
From my training, "setting the line" isn't a one person job, certainly not in that situation, the line should move together. But yes, Maguire in that particular situation is responsible for making it a line and not a zig zag and he is looking right across the line and can see both Bailly and AWB ahead of him, he should therefore be stepping up to get in line with Bailly, anything else is inviting exactly what happened. You step up, or you make sure you are further over to cover, Maguire did neither.
He really hasn’t though. All our defenders have had shockers, but neither Lindelof nor Bailly have been afforded time to be as bad, for as long as Maguire.
Just a character ahha
