You've got far far bigger problems than your forward press going to sleep if someone like KIM is able to loop one over our enter midfield to a player who's 1 on 1 against an isolated Matip in all sorts of space.
& in any case that came in the first half, so you can't fault Nunez for that 1 I'm afraid.
That one was the press not working.
Last one, Nunez could have pressed a bit more.
I don’t think Diaz is great at pressing either.
Or let me be more accurate, both Nunez & Diaz run about a fair bit, but often their closing down is easily bypassed - whether that’s them making bad decisions or team-mates not joining l, I don’t know.
I also think tonight, Mac A wasn’t as good positionally when we lost possession - he’s drifting inside at the same time as Trent is, Salah’s not great at pressing and that’s exposing too much space on the right.
Normally Konate would come across to fill that but Matip stayed to central.
In terms of leading the press and being good at it - Slobbers & Jota are the 2 best at it - Gakpo is good at dropping deep at cutting out passing channels.
I feel like we’d be better balanced with Slobbers at RM and Mac A at LM with Jota as the left sided attacker and Gakpo through the middle - which we haven’t seen yet.
I don’t think Jones is terrible in the DM role, but we’d be in all sorts of strife if we don’t bring someone in.
I don’t know what to do about Trent. Sorry, I’m not in the sign a RB club - I’d rather sign a CB that can cover Konate whe he’s inevitably injured.
