Dead good on Saturday. Didn't have much to do in a defensive sense but when he did he always seemed to be a step ahead of everyone to cut it out. More impressively was his probing balls down the middle. He always looked to get the team on the front foot, finding out productive players (most likely Firmino - who was everywhere!) in space.
He really isn't as bad as some people make him out to be. When he's good, he's very good - as his performance at Woodison last Christmas proved. Ok, positionally he gets caught out from time to time but nothing so offensively bad that it would have been called inexcusable on the playground in the manner of Lovren's form this season. But he's a reserve defender and on average I'd have said he's proven to be a decent asset to rely on. Perhaps too much for some people but at the end of the day that's Lovren and Matip's problem for getting injured so much.
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