Firstly, as already said, the through ball was from Matip.
Secondly conceding chances or opportunities to cross from the most dangerous area on the pitch is the defence not doing it's job, the fact they didn't score from those chances doesn't alleviate the problem beyond the fact that we won. We've conceded far too many goals this season, that is the main reason we're not challenging for the title and in that time Clyne has been a constant.
As for your assertion that nobody was complaining about Clyne when Mane was here, yes they were, plenty of us. Mane just masks the problem with his quality.
As for the stats removing context, they generally do but they also provide clear evidence and those defensive stats are poor when you consider their main threat came from his side (not a co-incidence). His passing contribution is pathetic in those stats, truly pathetic and you want to give him a 7, I'd suggest watch it again and again until you realise he was completely ineffective in both areas of the pitch beyond 30 minutes because until then you'll struggle recognising "why do we struggle breaking down bus parkers" and "why are we so poor defensively" he is part of both problems.
You clearly don't like him, no problems with that but the way you describe an England International would have you believe he plays for some Blue Square league team
Most of the crosses last night were from midway in our half, Nintendo much anybody can do to stop those coming in but nobody was skinning him and putting in dangerous crosses from the byline and as I said the defence generally last night against a thuggish bunch of brutes did their job.
Give me his defensive errors leading to goals and I might reconsider your stats!
I understand where you are coming from regarding Clynes offensive output hell even I have been tempted to put my remote through the tv watching both Clyne and Milner constantly cutting back inside.
I have stated previously Clyne is a defensive full back and a fairly good one at that.
We have a fairly dodgy back line and to remove one of the stronger parts of that unit is not something I would advocate.
Of course we should expect more from a Milner and Clyne but are we really relying on them to be carving open the opposition?
If we had Nesta and Cannavaro at the back I would be fine in dropping Clyne but for me I prefer my fullbacks to be better defenders than attackers.
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