I blame this goal on:
1. Poor defensive coaching - 10%
2. Poor defensive organisation - 20% (duty should be shared among goalie and captain or leader at the back)
3. Poor communication - 20% (duty should be shared among goalie and last defender)
4. Lindelof gives easy ball away - 10%
5. Mctominay didn't track back - 10%
6. Williams let go his opponents - 10%
7. Maguire, being the last defender to defend the ball, didn't even try to stop the ball from crossing into box - 10%
8. De Gea being a fanny - 20%
So in conclusion, the biggest blame would be on De Gea (20%+10%+10%=40%) and Maguire (10%+10%+10%=30%)
Best bid so far in my view.
I’d tweak it a bit on the points of
Defensive coaching: Maybe, but the same players have managed to play a lot better defensively many times before with the same defensive coaching and similar formations. Defensive tactics and preparations are surely to blame for the first two goals IMO, where several players back from injury or in slightly unusual positions (AWB, LS, AT and BF) made us open as a barnyard door for twenty mins or so. After that, though, with some tweaks, the defense generally worked well for 99% of the rest of the match. In that context, the last goal seems more an exception, as opposed to the first two.
Defensive organisation: Down a notch. We were not that badly organized in the situation, when you account for the fact that it arose on the back of a double transition. No defense is going to be perfectly organized if they win the ball and then lose it in a matter of seconds. Maguire could have shouted at McTominay to look behind him, but that’s a bit of an ask under the circunstances. Maybe he even did.
Communication: Quite possibly.
Lindelöf: for the pass, I’d up it to 15%.
McTom: Agreed.
Williams: needs a little more than 10% for switching off. In that kind ofsituation, a defender has to take responsibility for the man in front of him, Williams doesn’t switch on to that at all.
Maguire: Looking at it from different angles, I am completely convinced he actually had no chance whatsoever of reaching the ball once deflected. It’s farther from him at any time than it appears on the first tv images, it curls and his direction is opposite. At first I blamed him 80%, but now I actually struggle to criticise him for that goal. ‘Maybe he could have been more aware and speedy of mind and communicated to McTom about the loose man and to Williams about taking the spare man, but that last is normally something that you don’t have time to speak about, it goes without saying.
DeGea: It looks horrible at first glance. Looking further at it, he is not that slow to move given that from his angle the deflection is first shielded, then it must likely look from where he’s standing like it’s going towards goal or Maguire is going to get it, and a few split seconds is all it takes. A tad passive, but not terribly slow. The first I thought he was cowardly and positioned his upper body all wrong, but looking at it again, it looks more like he twists his body to make the best possible and close-to-the ball block with his feet, which makes sense but for the fact that Kluivert is so fast and makes a really, really deft chip. To those thinking he can reach it before Kluivert, I don’t think so. Not good goalkeeping, but neither is it terrible.
AWB: Gets close enough, but he could have done better than to let it go between his legs. On the other hand he blocks the space the winger would have liked to use, so the actual pass isn’t that perfect, leading to a miscontrolled deflection.
Van de Beek: must be mentioned as he needs to fall deeper to support Williams, making it safer for him to take the man in front of him. A 2% blame maybe.
Pogba: I’ll just mention him as at first I was absolutely certain he was at fault for at least something, as he irritates me so often in defensive situations. However, I really can’t find a thing he did wrong in that situation.
To summarize, what looked like a horrorshow at first, making me shout murder all round the livingroom, looks like good pressing and not so good attacking but a great finish by Leipzig, a misfortune of five weak defensive actions happening at once, and bad luck in terms of the path of a deflection.
I’ll hasten to add that the three and a half goals we should have let in in the first 20 mins was a veritable defensive shitshow worthy of the Spurs match, and both our goals were as lucky at least, so it doesn’t let us off the hook for a bad performance in total.
I did think Maguire had a decent game, though, after a weak start to the season by him.