DEFENSIVE CRIMES

Ayling, Fry and VDB should be playing as a back 3 at that point.

VDB should have told fry the CF is his man, and shifted 15 yards over to the left channel.
 
newyddion said:
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Jack Clark's pass to Nazariy Rusyn.. completely unmarked whilst 2Fry and 1RVDB are playing footsie with Jobe Bellingham.. I'm guessing it's 6OBrien
looks like 4Howson and 5Azaz.. and 7Engel in no mans land.
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Five faults with that:

Fry should be goal side of the man next to him, which would enable VDB to cover left, but as he's not VDB has to cover the most local and obvious threat to goal. As soon as the ball got switched over then the threat changed to two threats, so he had to go to the one with the ball. It's not Ayling's fault in any way and he's actually protecting an area what Fry think's he's defending, which is a minimal threat at best, Fry's in no mans land basically.

Another problem of course is that's Engel's side, so you could say Engel should have tracked that run, but he couldn't do that as he was the one who put in the terrible cross which lost us the ball. He shouldn't have been that high without arranging cover behind him.

As O'Brien was the one who plays closest to Engel he should be covering that side as Engel has gone up, but even more so as it was O'Briens pass which put him in that position for the terrible cross. O'Brien then doubles up on the problem by coming to the ball when there's already two over there, and not even doing it in a way which cuts out a passing line. Then even worse, O'Brien doesn't even track the runner nearest him, so if the keeper had saved it, O'Brian's second choice man could have probably got the rebound first.

The other problem is the keeper was beaten near post, from the corner of the box, which should never ever happen. You can kind of let the defenders off a bit, as they could think that guy over there is a minimal threat, which he was, but it was still the largest threat at the time.

Problem 5, overcommitting when you're winning, but we even covered this by getting enough men back, but the communication/ organisation of who was back covering was poor, which is probably the centre backs fault.

Thing is, had we even solved one of those problems, then they wouldn't have likely scored, but a lot of goals are like that, it's not one major problem, but a sum of many problems.
 
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