Must be getting close to Maguire levels of defending. It seems most goals Liverpool concede this season are either his fault or come from his side.
Trent can’t defend
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He doesn’t help out enough at the back to play midfield. He should play RW at this point
He won’t be in the league much longer if he continues at right back.
Second goal was bizarre. He just torpedoes himself into nowhere.
His reading of the game is terrible
His defending was never so problematic though. What has changed?
Cafu wasn’t great defensively but he had serious determination and a genuine football brain. Dani Alves was the same.
Trent AA lacks determination and jogs about. He has zero awareness and lacks any sort of intelligence.
Guessing most of you missed his goal against a 52 year old McGregor midweek? Have some respect.
Terrible rightback
I still think it’s a bit far to say he’s that bad. It’s the defensive side of his game where he really is terrible at the moment. It’s more noticeable now because the whole team is struggling. If he was moved higher up the pitch then I think it’s help.
For me, it’s teams preparing for it now. Brighton put Trossard up against him and he scored a hat trick.
Napoli targeted him and got success all game.
Liverpool are an great team with one glaring weakness so teams are targeting it now more in my opinion.
At this rate I struggle to count how many English players are doing well consistently just before the world Cup.
Much like Bruno, when he was putting up good numbers, his deficiencies were overlooked. But when his offensive output has gone to shit, he's become a total liability.
Yeah, that was some really puzzling defending. Seems like Klopp's hand is being forced, has to bench him or try him out further up the pitch.
That second goal - you’d be disappointed if your 8 year old did that. He literally charges at the ball for no reason. It’s proper crazy.
He used to have the help of Van Dijk being competent to cover, now his legs have gone it makes it a lot more difficult
selling Salah and pushing TAA forward might have been the move last summer
I think he’s shit defensively. His end product hasn’t been enough to compensate this season.
I don’t think he would make a championship team if it wasn’t for his end product in an attacking sense because he has no defensive awareness whatsoever and does not appear interested in defending. Seems quite arrogant in that manner.
His defending reminds me of Evra in his latter years, constantly caught out of position and when he is the one tracking back always seemed to switch off to allow a cross in
He's got loads of quality on the ball, and he can be the CM they are looking for. Fabinho can slot behind him to do the dirty work
Best passer in the league according to Merson!
Classic dreadful defending for both goals.
The second one has no thought power. Is covering in the centre, sees his mate jockying Martinelli, yet sprints over, past the ball, and leaves a massive hole. Terrible.
Classic dreadful defending for both goals.
The second one has no thought power. Is covering in the centre, sees his mate jockying Martinelli, yet sprints over, past the ball, and leaves a massive hole. Terrible.
You must admin though, it was absolutely hilarious. It was like watching a comedy sketch of a football game.
Subbed at half time
Sky studio totally ignoring the fact Trent has been destroyed 1st half and has been substituted because of the knock 
Wonder what the smug little fecker will tweet now?
vinícius ended him in that cl final
Much like van Dijk, the curtain has been properly pulled back. Nobody is scared of Liverpool any more and players are really going at their defence now.
I just don't see it to be honest. He's a severely one dimensional player who's being compared to the absolute elites because he and Liverpool had a collective brilliant 18 months. Imagine how many assists Rory Delap would have got if he played in the current City team?
I remember when he was getting shit for just lumping the ball forward and Liverpool insisted he was integral to the way they wanted to play and it wasn't about him finding a man, it was about the defence panicking and Liverpool winning the second ball high up instead. Their PR machine makes North Korea blush.
And even a 30yo McGregor was always a bit dodgy at free kicks.
It's even funnier how shite he is these days because he comes across as a monumental prick.
This was fairly informative:
The biggest thing for me is their pressing from the front was the best in the league last year, now it’s mid-table. And Salah is pressing literally half as often as he did at his peak. TAA always defended these situations poorly but Liverpool were really good at preventing these situations from arising; they suffocated the opposition and gave them no option to play through the press and get their players in space in the middle third. Henderson was really good at covering for him on the few occasions it did happen, but he’s fading away now too. That said, TAA has responded to it in the completely the wrong way; rather than sharpening up because he’s more exposed and more is required of him defensively, he’s just decided to reject that extra responsibility and say “if you’re gonna keep letting them run at me this is just what’s going to happen, sort it out lads, I’m busy thinking about my next free kick”.
It's like he watched Neville hammer him on MNF and completely misunderstood what he meant when he said he should be closing down with more intensity.
The spin is that he's got Beckham esque delivery.
I think the truth is more that he's got acres of space all game and just pumps a hell of a lot of stock balls in so some are going to be on the money.
He's having a maguire like drop off
Thing is, his revered delivery isn’t much better or worse than James. Sure he can take a free kick, but since it’s like a 6% chance to score from a free kick on average it seems pretty pointless to bring someone just for that. Especially if they score 2 goals down your side, you’ll need to score 3 to show any real value.
When’s he gonna join Dele Alli in Turkey?
I see this said often but I don't think it's a simple matter of "he can't defend so he needs to play higher up." At any level in football, space is harder to find the further up the field you play. People might say oh but he plays high up the pitch as a right back anyway but he's coming into those spaces from deep and also the opposition defenders are busy marking the likes of Salah and Jota when he does that so it might take some doing, him playing further up the field.
I don't think that goal was his fault. He was marking two players.
Yep, he can't play in the centre mid 2 or 3, and you just can't see him as the attacking right sided option, he's simply not that sort of threat, bar the crosses.
The second goal?
He left the centre totally exposed sprinting out like a headless chicken, actually running past the ball, leaving a massive hole in the middle
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