Don't need even to be good, just not stupid to play our defensive line in the midfield. If you look to any team in the EPL you'll see they are better settled in defense than us and despite we arguably having one of the best back 4 in the League we can't fucking keep a clean sheet.
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Player Cristian Romero
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Rubbish!
You need to be disciplined positionally to be a centre back whatever system you play in, whether it’s park the bus or a high line!
How many other central defenders do you see chasing past their midfielders to try and press the ball?
The system may be a problem but it also doesn't help having a guy like Romero who has shown that he's a liability. Guilty for all the goals we conceded this season? Perhaps.
Some haters calling Son to be stripped off his captaincy for some poor display and give it to this guy, but I don't see those posts calling him to be the captain now.
Not perhaps, definitely. That’s not to put all responsibility for the dropped points on him but on the three goals we conceded:
- gets drawn towards the ball unnecessarily and leaves Vardy free to tap in
- charges out into midfield then jogs back as Newcastle take a quick throw and score
- caught standing still and ball-watching while the rest of the team drop off, leaving a huge channel for Murphy to receive the ball
He has got to do so much better, the team is not mature enough in attack to blow opponents away so he can’t afford to go to sleep even once.
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Messi called him the best defender in the world.
So... that means he's not even trying when playing for us. Needs to be dropped IMO.
So... that means he's not even trying when playing for us. Needs to be dropped IMO.
In his defence I don’t think the system helps him, we play so open at time
How quickly things can change.
So much hype.
You lot are clueless honestly. Guy has won a world cup and 2 copa americas. We lucky to have him.
The managers tactics is killing us. Not romero
The managers tactics is killing us. Not romero
I hate to say it because I love the guy, but arguably NONE of the two goals today or one against Leicester happen if not for desperately poor defending by Romero. That's not to say the blame rests exclusively on him (especially the first goal conceded today) but he was certainly a big factor.
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yea romero is the reason we are shit. the world cup, copa america winner whos going to be off to madrid.
the only real winner at the club, hes the reason.
Real winners don't mess up as much.
when you have your fullbacks pushing up to be attacking midfielders your CB's get exposed. youll never be happy with the Cb's in this system when the shit forwrds cant finish and we lose. its inevitable, they are the ones that are going to take the blame because they are badly exposed.
its funny how roy keane slaughters ten hags system today where he has his CB's facing counters where they are outnumbered because hs fullbacks are too high. yet when its spurs its nothing about the tactics and its romero.
porro and udogie are decent players, but they are not good enough to be so high and leave the two CB's exposed. this system is flawed at this level and decent sides will expose it.
Lloris was a liability too despite winning the world cup.
World Cup winner or not, he was the worst centre-back on the pitch. By some distance.
He chased out pressing the ball, maybe by instruction from the manager, yet when we conceded we had 6 players in the box and we still left their player unmarked. Blaming Romero for that is crazy.
It's like Spurs fans just want to be miserable about everything. Romero is a class defender playing in a terrible defensive system. I watched a lot of Argentina in the Copa America and he looks unbelievable in their system because they're a solid defensive unit.
It's like Spurs fans just want to be miserable about everything. Romero is a class defender playing in a terrible defensive system. I watched a lot of Argentina in the Copa America and he looks unbelievable in their system because they're a solid defensive unit.
exactly. stick him in a solid system and hes a joke. which is why madrid will come and take him next summer.