Funny he types that rubbish saying klopps full backs arnt there to defend ... yet Robbo, Gomez and now Bradley do alot of defending and they do it very well. Bradley was excellent yesterday. You don't see robbo jogging back leisurely and letting players just walk past him without even a half hearted attempt at a tackle. As I say , the excuses people make for him are laughable and the fact is that robbo, Bradley and Gomez show him up as a full back.
The only one who leaves it to the cbs or dm to do the work is trent, who just jogs back leisurely and leaves it to someone else.
As I say, 2 parts to the game, the one with the ball and the one without, and trent only participates in one.
You post some complete sh*te
Have you ever listened to Klopp when he talks about TAA
Klopp: If TAA wasn't a good defender, he wouldn't play
Liverpool boss JĂźrgen Klopp the misunderstanding around Trent Alexander-Arnoldâs defensive weaknesses:
"We do high press and Trent is often the highest of all those at the back. That is the way we play football. You can say 'you should defend better' but you cannot have everything because if you want to play high press you need players in specific positions.
"It is not a crazy risk and we win the ball nine out of 10 times but in the one moment we don't win it, people ask 'where is Trent?' That is a question that I don't understand from people who watch football so often.
"Yes, there are other situations where he was not aware (enough) or there was a challenge he should have won but every player in the league has these challenges. But with him? Every time it is picked up and analysed, all the experts saying this is a weakness. Honestly, I just don't get that part of it.
"A world-class talent gets judged by the one thing he is not as world class at as the other things. If he was not a good defender, he would not play. Defensively it is not possible that one guy defends the whole pitch. You need everybody involved and we were not good at that (this season).
"Trent did not do well in these moments as well (but) in other moments he defends exceptionally well but for him - in his situation - nobody mentions it."
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