Muttley
Well-known member
It's the way we play now. If we stop doing it we just revert to Warnock/Pullis "safety first" football, I don't think anyone really wants that?im sick of seeing our defenders pass him the ball when he has an attacker closing him down, about time a defender realised that’s not a good idea,
He made two mistakes last night, the scuffed clearance which went IIRC to Johnny Howson and the charge out of the box missing the ball. But mostly he is OK with the ball at his feet. Much higher rated keepers than him have made that sort of mistake, I've seen Schmeichel do it and Ederson. I'm not saying he is as good as either of those (he wouldn't be playing for us if he was) just that if we play the way we do, our keepers (whoever we pick) will occasionally make that sort of mistake. But the more we persist with it the better his judgement will get. The charge out of the box is a good example of that, he got away with it but the experience should help to improve his situational awareness going forward. Also you have to remember our defenders are relatively new to the system so they need to know when to tap it into touch as Fry did and when you can safely entrust it to Joe.