Ben Davies

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Born in Hemel, one of us
Stands still when we park the bus,
Kills attacks and loses balls,
Hides away when duty calls

Double pivot, lack of pace
Has now lost his England place
On the bench and just as well,
He's pretty shit and we should sell

Lord Byron
 
Agreed. The only problem he has is consistency, but you would be hard pressed to find a second option in the PL as him.
We had another in Trippier, until we gave him the limelight and it all became a bit too much for him.

Davies is the same. Play him week in week out and we'd quickly lose patience, but keep him off the spotlight, and he quetly does a great job.
 
And some numpties are blaming Dier for it.

It was Davies man that scored and he lost his header but if Dier were a bit more alert he could have covered for his mate and headed it away before it got there. Unfortunately he misread the flight of the ball. We also let the cross come in totally unchallenged. So a bad goal to concede in every aspect.

With 3 central defenders you should never concede this type of goal.
 
It was Davies man that scored and he lost his header but if Dier were a bit more alert he could have covered for his mate and headed it away before it got there. Unfortunately he misread the flight of the ball.
Dier was marking their fella in the box.
There was no pressure on the cross
Davies misread the flight of the ball, so much so that he didn't even make a real effort to jump for it.

Have a look at this and pause it at exactly 1:16 and you'll see that Rodon, Dier, Davies and Reggie (?) are all in the perfect positions for defending.
Roll it on and you'll see that, firstly, it was a quality cross and secondly that Dier didn't misjudge anything.

 
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