If you watch the goal again. TAA stops running and should be closer to Sancho. Reacts too late.
Its modern day defending or lack of instinct.
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Absolutely, TAA had a howler. Take away his distribution and heās a bang average defender.
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Virgil is looking very human this season.
He is declining for sure
Injury hastened his decline, isnāt quite the same player.
Doesnāt help that heās been playing with Gomez but heās been suspect for a while now
Heās really not been that bad, heās the only one remotely holding that defence together and it looks to me like Trent has gone full on holiday mode while VVD is missing matip.
Robertson seems alright but also not quite the same level as usual.
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Joe Gomez - is more of the problem .
Look at Varane performances last season ā¦ itās clear guys like Maguire/Lindelof were making him look worse than he is ā¦just not up to the job.
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Heās definitely not holding it together, heās been way off it
Even in the CL final he was at fault
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All my Liverpool mates are just going on about how dross Gomez is, I havenāt watched enough of Liverpool this season to really have a judgement regarding VVD.
Gomez has regressed heavily and you can see why heās now last on the depth chart, however, the individual errors leading to goals or scoring opportunities from VVD are mounting and hard to deny.
Had a good 18 season stretch but heās been making lazy defensive errors for a while now. People are picking it up on it because heās physically spent now but his defensive slackness has been an issue for a while
Couldnāt believe there were people who put him up as one of the greatest defenders ever because he had a really good 18 months for Liverpool lol
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Think there was some big Liverpool related twitter account which claimed he was the best defender to have ever played the game 
I was listening to the 606 radio phone in show a month or so ago and there was a guy on there strongly arguing that VVD was the best defender in the world ever because apparently itās harder to be a defender nowadays and they have to do more!
Though the fans havenāt given up, they are still insisting that at his peak he was best
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He never had a level of invincibility. He used to struggle in Europe at times and often got away with his lazy positioning through sheet physicality.
Heās shit now because his body canāt make up for what his mind canāt do.
Quite possible Laurie hasnāt seen much quality CBs at their peak
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He was a top defender, one of the best in the world until Pickford decided to fuck him up. Same with Gomez, he would have been a very decent defender, but then did his ACLs. Modern sports science can work miracles, but very rarely do footballers go back to a 100% after a serious reconstructive surgery.
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I donāt see how 2 good seasons can make you the 
. Top defender, but longevity is key.
Yeah, alright mate, tell me one other guy with the record VVD had in regard to not being dribbled past?
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Most Italian defenders throughout the 70s 80s and 90s
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