It's an extremely rare occurrence, which was my point.
To say I have some sort of agenda against my captain, is an unnecessary insult when I'm criticizing one aspect of his play.
Does everyone coming into Fred's thread saying his shooting is bad, or into McTominay's to say he hides from the ball, have an agenda as well?
Just because you disagree with me and are too lazy or unable to write a substantive response, doesn't mean I have an agenda.
Oh no, Angry boy calls me a moron on a football forum. I'm so upset, help.
He's a good defender, but the UEFA team of the tournament pick doesn't mean he's magnificent on the ball. Vidic was EPL player of the season twice and he wasn't even the best ball playing CB in the team.
I doubt VDV was the guy that cut the video, nor is it necessary to listen to him to SEE Maguire isn't among the top ball playing CBs in the world. I could find clips of ones that are and highlight what they do that Maguire doesn't, but using footage to argue my point means I'm toxic according RAB or romufc.
Neither can you find compilations of defense splitting passes by Maguire. Yet him giving 2 at Euros is used to paint him as some sort of Beckenbauer.
We can't compare attacking players that are forcing to create chances in the final 3rd with CBs that can feck over their team by giving the ball away. It's why CBs can have a 90% successful pass rate and offensive players 50% and still play well.
You literally can't find Virgil shitting himself when he's not under pressure twice in a season. And by shitting himself I mean dribbling into 3 people when he has passing options, then hoofing it to an empty part of the pitch instead of a teammate. A mishit pass isn't the same as shitting yourself. Actually, VVD rarely shits himself when he's pressure, which is why he's among the best CBs on the ball.
The irony is that he allowed to Italians to reset (and gave them the ball). He could've set up a counter attack with acres of space instead of hoofing it and allowing the Italians to reset. You really shouldn't be one to bring up football know-how every time you post some sort of excuse of why Maguire is correct in hoofing it.
You seem to be arguing two contradictory things:
1. Maguire hoofing it is perfectly fine.
2. It's only one mistake. (and you slam me for bringing up more as a response
)
Make up your mind, use more than one sentence per paragraph and edit the petty insults out, please.
I said he looked better to me from what he showed at the start of the tourney/friendlies. Thought Stones was better on the ball throughout as well.