Look at today for example. Yes Doku completed some dribbles, but most times Trent funneled him to the byline or inside and Doku wasn’t really threatening for the most part. Yet the prevailing narrative is that he got destroyed by Doku.
He has actually been decent to good at defending this season yet people say he’s been a horrific defender. I don’t think this is quite true if you watch him play.
I won’t claim that he’s an amazing defender but he’s not a bad one either, he’s just a perfectly average to good defender but the narrative is that he’s a liability. It’s frustrating to see.
Yeah trent has always been a perfectly fine defender. He’s an absolutely world class player with the ball though
I mean no, he has been below average as a poor defender
There isn’t a single thing to back this claim up. Find all right backs in the top 50 teams in the world and show me how trenr is below average.
he’s just average in terms of 1v1 defending but if you mean defensive awareness then yeah he’s below average
If you understood anything about football. Trent loves to move up the pitch I’m which leaves a gap behind him and that’s what gets exploited every time.
Do you have any metrics whatsoever to support this?
He’s not as good as you’d expect for a “world class” right back, but he’s not below average for a typical prem defender
This is eloquently put