Teddydee1980
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Agree with this. I get the sense Seddon struggles positionally, in that he's being asked/encouraged to be an attacking outlet as well as defensively sound and ends up being average/less than average at bothLet’s look at the goal.
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This is where Findlay makes the attempted pass. It’s a terrible one, and easily cut out, but I’ve put a mark where you’d maybe expect/want your left back to be, and where it would have given Findlay and option. Let’s look at where he actually was…
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It’s hard to find him any earlier as he’s out of frame, but this is seconds after the pass is intercepted. What is Seddon doing there?! Look at where our central midfielders are - he’s ahead of them, but as central. It’s where you might expect Matty Taylor to be if he was dropping deep. Look at the left winger - you’d expect your left back to be behind him, not ahead and central!
This isn’t to say that the goal is his fault, as it was still a bad pass from Findlay who could and should have just smashed it high up the field, and obviously more happened afterwards, but it’s interesting how in a team game, the one mistake that you see isn’t always the full story.
I actually think Ciaron Brown is a safer pair of hands here, because whilst he offers less going forward (apart from dead balls) he is at least solid defensively. Particularly with high diagonals.