Obviously people with agenda or coach potato fans will blame 100% Maguire for this. The reality is that if you really want to blame you should break down the whole situation. I couldn´t find the whole clip but I reckon it was the very poor short pass Lindelof made to give the ball away, considering how poor the pass was I think he deserves about 15% blame, Bruno and AWB did their best defending there imho, Lindelof then had probably no chance to react for the clever shoulder flick from the player.
Maguire decision to go cover the front player was right he also has very little time to react foor the flick however if you slow down the clip, you can see that he looks confident looking at the direction of DDG, for him to sweep the ball in his six yard box.I read some nonsense that he should know how passive Dave in the goal is and expect that, in such short time you expect the very least - any goalie in the world not to stand on his heels and operates in the fecking 6 yard box. The anticipation is really poor and the starting position too, look how deep he is. let alone lack of organization. I mean he did have a very little time to shout at his players to cdover for each other but you know it´s a long term issue, even Brandon Williams is surprised he didn´t go for the ball, although he could have gone forward and cover, however there is another player on the far post who would be totally free and we would blame him same way we blame AWB defending too deep.
So I´d give 15% Lindelof for his horrific pass in the build up
10% to Maguire for not acting like a no-nonsense defender. However just to put some more perspective to it, we are 2-0 down and we really don´t wanna concede corners and put our team under more pressure, so he left it to DDG which should be there
15% to BW for not covering although you know there would be a massive gap behind him and expectations of DDG coming out was right to be strong
60% DDG, no organization, no anticipation, passivness or poor positioning and lack of any bravery. I think this should be his end tbh, at least Henderson should get a shot. DDG cost us so many games and champions league place in the last couple of seasons alone for nothing but LACK OF CONCENTRATION.
And please not start about how DDG saved us many times before. We all know that we owe him a bit but now its almost 2021 no 2017/18. Mistakesa re reoccusing and it´s not like keepers don´t make world class saves against us. Tom Heaton´s Kruls or some other keepers make some fabulous saves but we only talk DDG because we see him week in and week out..
Going back to OP, blaming Maguire solely for this is a farce, he´s an easy target and trust me or not one of our best players now who just need a bit more organization around him, solid system and some fan support, he will be great again, once we replace Ole for manager who know how to set up and make the team defend as a unit, finally replace the fraud Lindelof who can´t defend, have a quality proactive goalkeeper and a DM who would provide some cover.
And please let´s not talk about Matic and McT as DMs. Matic is inccredibly slow, can´t track players nor cover the ground, he only plays deep because he can´t run anymore. McT is a joke, can´t pass and is no dynamic either, only if he was at least half as good in positioning as we all want him to be, he really dowsn´t know where he should be and doesn´t anticipate enough, not the youngest either to drastically get better at it. Fix all the subpar issues around maguire and you will see we will have a much better defense
they'd be taking the ball and the man.
