Ok, but no centre back wants to be out wide racing a winger. It's up to the manager to be playing a system which ensures this isn't happening
Yep back four were very good . Tariq got a bit overloaded at times but Neto is a good player and only escaped a few times.
Very close to.
And when he very nearly smacked it in his own net!
I thought Lamptey was excellent considering he was on his wrong side, and considering he got no where near as much help from Mitoma that Veltman got from Minteh, who basically played as a wingback for much of the game.
His reading of the game is superb. More than once in the last few games he's very casually cut out some quite good cut backs in the area whilst the opposition queue up behind him.
Also superb at marshalling the defence.
Were we not playing 3 at the back?
he was excellent at bailing Lamptey out on several occasions too
Also mentioned he was seriously being considered for England a few years ago too and got injured at the wrong time.
I remember Carragher waxing lyrical about him during one of our televised games.
Not really, not if you look at the heat maps. I think the first half gave that impression because of how much time Minteh spent covering for Veltman, but second half it was noticeable how much higher up he played.
