That was his yearly 2 week of fame performance, now back to being Maguire.
Doesn't absolve his share of issue by panicking and running back too quick, opening space and easy options for oppositions. He made tactical schoolboy mistake. No serious teams defend highline like this. It's not one off rare occasion. Over the years, he always does this. In the build up for City second goal, he did the same (Evans made more of same mistake in that game). And many of the players have been replaced, but same issue persists with his game even when he's in good form, not making mistake on ball.Nobody was doing their jobs in front of him either. They just ran through us.
I still don’t understand why this gobshite opened his mouth with that win percentage stuff. It was just setting himself up to fail. He wasn’t the worse player out there but he certainly wasn’t anywhere near being one of the better ones. He’s now gonna get lambasted again and honestly he only has himself and his weird pundit mates (Agbonlahor, Sherwood etc) to blame.
While Dalot's positioning for the first goal was simply tragic, Maguire's tracking run that left our entire central area exposed was pure comedy. He wasn't even covering Gordon properly — and the pass to him was never available (Lindelöf was in the way). It was so bad, as if he tried to be as far away from the trouble as possibleWhile there are many things wrong with our team in the first goal, but Maguire deserved his share of blame by again uncoordinatedly backpedaling alone and creating space for opposition. Defending high without properly utilizing offside trap is suicidal.
And unbelievable luck as well. I would like to see him do that again in his next 20 attempts. But I agree, Maguire actually had a decent game. I thought he was a bit weak on their third goal when he got blocked, but his long passes were imminent.As our 3rd or 4th choice CB he's fine, wasn't terrible yesterday but my thoughts on him lacking aggression showing through again - he could easily have powered that header a bit more and gone through Gordon completely legally, he'd have probably even won a freekick for Gordon impeding him. It was an unbelivable finish though.
I don’t dislike Maguire but the trouble is he’s not ok as our 3/4th choice CB as his profile completely changes what we can get away with in midfield which has a knock on effect elsewhere.As our 3rd or 4th choice CB he's fine, wasn't terrible yesterday but my thoughts on him lacking aggression showing through again - he could easily have powered that header a bit more and gone through Gordon completely legally, he'd have probably even won a freekick for Gordon impeding him. It was an unbelivable finish though.
I think it's ok if we recruited like a normal team, usually teams have one two fast CBs - we genuinely have none now Varane's legs have gone - even picking up a relatively cheap and young CB with raw physical attributes, someone like Danso at Lens, should have been high on our list of priorities over someone like Mount last window. As it stands Maguire is arguably our best RCB right now and he is not an elite player.I don’t dislike Maguire but the trouble is he’s not ok as our 3/4th choice CB as his profile completely changes what we can get away with in midfield which has a knock on effect elsewhere.