Of all the poor/weak goalkeeping people complained on Mignolet, I just frustrate most on his distribution of the ball. Not only accuracy which he's always poor but it's his lack of understanding to the game. I means he seem not to realise of his teammates position on the field and not interest to make a Reina -> Torres -> Goal! thing at all.
Recently teams set walls of defence when play us and we often found hard to penetrate and create clear chance/score goal. This anyway in every game there are opportunities when opponent came at us as they pour bodies up during counter attack or at set pieces/corner that I saw Mignolet fail completely to start quick counter as he don't know how/when/where to distribute the 'right' ball. He kick/throw the ball out of him just for the sake of it.
People can see from start of this season, which we have Mane and Salah, if we have a gk who understand the game and has accurate distribution of the ball we could benefit from quick attack start from the gk while opponent loosen their defence organise, and bypass our clumsy central midfield.
If he will develop to the LFC first choice GK he should be now (even long ago), now no one would convince me he will reach that point. We need to replace him.
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