by Millsy »
25 Nov 2020 15:17
Snowflake Royal Forbury Lion Millsy Isn’t it funny how our memories are only as good as the last few games?
7 points clear at the top, best defensive record in the country, some great saves and we were discussing how much a decent keeper adds to our success.
A few games of horrific defending, errors pretty much all across the back 5 and HE is the one who must be dropped??
This.
There are 5 players at the back whose #1 role is to defend and if the back 4 are playing at their best the goalkeeper will be under threat less often and therefore statistically likely to let fewer in.
Loving that the fourth goal is now everyone else's fault and not Cabral's.
I'd love to see who wrote that.
Clearly that was a monumental f**kup, and he's made others too.
But few in our back 5 are blame free. Perhaps Morrison this season?
If the defence was absolutely perfect and blame free and it was purely his little flurry of cockups that lost us points against the grain then hell yeah absolutely the obvious answer is to drop him for almost anyone else.
That's clearly not what is going on though. Our defence has been a baffling comedy of errors affecting almost everyone for the last few games. When you have a pile of oxf*rd in front of you as keeper what are you meant to do?
And actually yes 4th goal was his fault but perhaps if it weren't for the clowns in front of him losing our 2-0 lead forcing us to attack like crazy for an equaliser we wouldn't be in the position where the lad has to run out and make that error.
These aren't normal times, this is not a normal defensive unit. This isn't a Karius type issue. He's just another clown in a circus of a defence. Something is very broken and swapping Cabral is going to do little more than swapping McIntyre did or welcoming Moore back did. If anything it will be one step in the wrong direction in terms of rebuilding his confidence and having a sense of cohesion in the defence. Too many changes. They just need to sort out their heads.
One change I'd gladly make as soon as possible though is Yiadom for Esteves, who's a kid out of his depth defensively.
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