From the still which the lad posted up, Lallana, Sakho and Toure are all wrong side. WTF Lallana was trying to do I'm not sure, Sakho is getting outmuscled by a good player and Toure is a little bit asleep.
That said, these things happen and you could probably pick out 10 examples on still photographs for each team in every game of exactly the same thing. To take advantage of it you need good delivery (which they got), alert attackers (which Walcott and Girout were) and in this instance sh!te goalkeeping (provided by Mignolet). Obviously the goal isn't totally his fault as he ought to have been better helped, but he's got to save it FFS.
Mignolet has been criticised in the past to a ridiculous level for mistakes which were barely his IMHO, but last night he deserves it with both barrels. The first goal he has to save, and the second too. The third (sorry those who criticised him) no goalkeeper in the world is stopping, but last night it was not only about the goals it was the leak in our confidence which came from him being between the sticks.
Bizarrely, I thought Cech was poor too. He ought to have got the second and the third IMHO, and he was at fault for the first. The difference though is that Cech exudes confidence and presence, even though he's not half the keeper he was. because of his stature he is able to bluff his way through games, organising the defence and spreading confidence all around him. Liek his old team mate Terry at Chelsea, the legs have long gone but he is getting by on experience and nous. Mignolet would have saved our equaliser last night if he were playing for Arsenal, but there's no way they'd swap him for Cech.
We need a new goalkeeper, and if Danny Ward isn't good enough to get in front of both of the ones we've got then Aberdeen fans must be watching a different sport.
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