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We give away too many late goals. It cost us at Wolves and we let Brentford back in late on with their late goal.

I will continue to say this. The referee and the FA can not have the opposition targeting the goalkeepers in ways it is not allowed anywhere else on the pitch. It's a shame that, yes a keeper might be vulnerable to being crowded, but at the same time, you can not allow opposition to put a body on the keeper with zero intent to play the ball. You can not back down the keeper on his line. Period. I will stand by that. If a defender has to extricate himself to go protect the keeper, then the opposition will always have an unmarked player, and you do not know who that player is going to be as they take turns. Fouling the keeper off the ball is a foul. Period. It has zero to do the strength when you are being bodied up on every play.

I think some of the problem is strangely enough bringing our best players back in. That shouldn’t be an issue in itself but does mean that the team has to get used to playing together and we are still having adjustments every match. That said that’s a small problem for the overall.
I think teams know how to play us. Angeball now isn’t a new thing to the premier league. Teams have seen us multiple times and we have played every team. We need to be clever and find alternative plays.
I think we are missing Son a lot as our usually most clinical player. Richarlison has been incredible of late though and without him we would be in a much worse position.
Also pedro Porro seems off form maybe he needs a rest. He has barely missed a moment and he has dropped off slightly recently. Before the last few weeks his passing was consistently 75% accuracy. Today his passing was off and likewise v City in the cup. I also would have Kulusevski on the right to protect him as I think that he helps a lot more defensively than Johnson does.

Anyway top 4 should definitely be there and if we get that it’s a great season even if our form at the start of the season hinted that we could achieve so much more.

Hojbjerq Def a BLACK cat ,,every time he starts ..NO WIN
Looks like he plays ok .but slow down play and make pretty average mistakes
thank God Biss and Sarr are back for next game
and that third kit ..!!! looks crap and we play crap with it …

I can't see how it's anything but a foul. What is Vicario to do? He can't push the player away with his hands for two reasons – chance of it being seen as a foul, and secondly, he's gotta have his arms up, ready for the ball that's coming in. Okay, fair enough, use body to shove the player away? Well, the player will still run into him again as the ball is being kicked in – at this moment Vicario (or any other keeper, really) will be setting themselves up for either a reaction save or to come for the cross, meaning you're on your toes or you're making a run for the ball to catch it. It makes it near impossible to catch if you're being pushed as you're about to run towards the ball, or your run up will be hindered. Yes, some will argue "goalkeepers have been protected for too long", but they're quite literally there as the last man, to save the ball, they're "different" from the rest of the 20 players that are likely in the box at the time. If a player misses a header, there's still a chance another player will get the ball – or risk of a foul – there aren't 10 other keepers in the box to catch the ball. You essentially just take the keeper out the play like this. "Has to be stronger" is meaningless if you can just push the goalkeeper away or into his own goal when he's on his toes, high point of balance – it's a very different stance than having your feet planted on the ground or leaning your weight into someone to push them while not even going for the ball, meanwhile Vicario IS actually going for the ball. Try being on your toes and have someone push you… you'll likely get very off balance. Keepers can't stay flat footed with all their weight on feet/heels when preparing for a cross, which is essentially what the player hindering Vicario does – feet solidly planted, low center of gravity, leaning against him.

If anything, it's on the defenders to wrestle the opposition away. And that would then be an Ange/training thing, not a Vicario matter, but any goalkeeper will struggle if allowed to being pushed over his own line, mostly because you're on your toes, arms raised, high point of balance while the player pushing can have feet firmly planted, create low center of gravity and put weight behind. Any keeper on their toes ready to catch a cross will be put off balance. He can't take the same stance as the player pushing him. That only leaves you equally unprepared. Against City he actually did push Dias away twice before their goal, but that just means de Bruyne waits with taking the corner…