UvS xR4GEx » Sun Feb 04, 2018 10:58 am wrote:I like Matip but I would like to see Lovren and VVD in the defence today. I thinķ VVD has the tendency to try to intercept the ball high up on the pitch leaving the other Center half isolated if VVD mis-times it.
I saw it happen on a few occasions in the West Brom game.. but Matip hasn't got the pace to cover for these types of errors and it cost us.
Thing is you put a £75m price tag on a defenders head and it adds alot of pressure and expectations. I think VVD thinks he has to win every ball and rushes into challenges and tries to intercept balls he's never going to get.
I'm saying this but Lovren did the same thing I'm accusing VVD of doing in the spurs game at Wembley where he got done twice by Kane.
We just need to keep it tight and not rush our decision making because Spurs lack pace in forward areas.
I certainly don't think Matip is slow. Once he get's going with his long stride, he does eat up the ground pretty quickly.