The Official Olof Mellberg Thread (21 Viewers)
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We have so many amateurs, we were bound to mistake that mistake one way or the other, if Chiellini can do that, everybody can do that!!
Point is that we dont have the necessary percentage of quality to cover up for these mistakes, so that our defense comes up bulletproof in the end.
This is why i insist it is a great risk to expect anything from just one player.
This is what i wanted to point by Chiellini's absence. Just like i said then and even the numbers proved me right there, the presence of just one good defender, masks the incompetence of the rest, so does the presence of 2 DMs.
Usually we had a solid DM to avoid the mistake Mellberg did, or at least make up for it and then a useless fullback to make that mistake, or avoid because the presence of that DM and finally a solid CB to fix all those mistakes that has gotten through. This is what we sacrifice to get the solid numbers in our defense, at the beginning of the season.
But it doesnt changes the fact that the odds were against were always against us
and the only proper way to fix our real + serious defensive issues, was to upgrade our weaklings there!
It is just happened that at times those issues became more apparent and it doenst in mean they they werent there up until now, they were just masked!
If you honestly expecting no mistakes from this defense, under those circumstances, then your expectations were... unrealistic...
And why do you focus on the late goal alone, wherent our previous goals avoidable too? Why do you ignore the bulk of our problem and insist on a detail tha happened in the middle of the field, that could, or couldnt be proved fatal??
We conceded 3 goals ffs, not one, from the same pattern, two using the very same pattern...if we were avoiding just one of them, it would have been enough, but we dont have the necessary skills to do, every time we had to defend, our defense failed, it was not an individual mistake alone!
Our defense failed systematically and if it wasnt for that mistake, it would have been another...
If we only accuse Mellberg, that would mean that the rest did their job, but they didnt!
So far we have tried hard to avoid those circumstances that expose our weak defense, sacrificing our creativity in the midfield, but we have done nothing to fix those problems properly.
IMO this what we ought to do over the past 2 seasons, as you are very well known...
I understand that the late goal is the most bitter one, but it wasnt the only mistake we made and not even the worst one...
It is unfair to blame it all to Mellberg!
Point is that we dont have the necessary percentage of quality to cover up for these mistakes, so that our defense comes up bulletproof in the end.
This is why i insist it is a great risk to expect anything from just one player.
This is what i wanted to point by Chiellini's absence. Just like i said then and even the numbers proved me right there, the presence of just one good defender, masks the incompetence of the rest, so does the presence of 2 DMs.
Usually we had a solid DM to avoid the mistake Mellberg did, or at least make up for it and then a useless fullback to make that mistake, or avoid because the presence of that DM and finally a solid CB to fix all those mistakes that has gotten through. This is what we sacrifice to get the solid numbers in our defense, at the beginning of the season.
But it doesnt changes the fact that the odds were against were always against us
and the only proper way to fix our real + serious defensive issues, was to upgrade our weaklings there!
It is just happened that at times those issues became more apparent and it doenst in mean they they werent there up until now, they were just masked!
If you honestly expecting no mistakes from this defense, under those circumstances, then your expectations were... unrealistic...
And why do you focus on the late goal alone, wherent our previous goals avoidable too? Why do you ignore the bulk of our problem and insist on a detail tha happened in the middle of the field, that could, or couldnt be proved fatal??
We conceded 3 goals ffs, not one, from the same pattern, two using the very same pattern...if we were avoiding just one of them, it would have been enough, but we dont have the necessary skills to do, every time we had to defend, our defense failed, it was not an individual mistake alone!
Our defense failed systematically and if it wasnt for that mistake, it would have been another...
If we only accuse Mellberg, that would mean that the rest did their job, but they didnt!
So far we have tried hard to avoid those circumstances that expose our weak defense, sacrificing our creativity in the midfield, but we have done nothing to fix those problems properly.
IMO this what we ought to do over the past 2 seasons, as you are very well known...
I understand that the late goal is the most bitter one, but it wasnt the only mistake we made and not even the worst one...
It is unfair to blame it all to Mellberg!
