He's stopped plenty of goals and his open play defending hasn't been bad at all. Your statement omits so many other factors for it to hold weight. You'd have to go back and look at how many of the goals were his fault or that he could have helped prevent from open play
Absolutely no denying that he has stopped a lot of goals, and has made a lot of eye catching, on the line headers too. But you cannot deny the fact that we are deep in a relegation battle, and cannot keep clean sheets, you may love him, but you can't deny that he is a major part of a defence which is collectively poor. A defence is a collective, so whilst Im not saying Murillo is solely to blame, I am saying that the fact he escapes blame and is lauded every game is baffling. His main job is to stop the other team scoring, and within almost every defensive unit this season, he has been unable to do so.
Agreed. He's not made a load of obvious howlers but we've conceded too many goals where he's just not done the basics correctly.
The thing is he isn’t losing us a goal a game. He’s a good defender, his weakness is aerial ability mainly down to his lack of height, that is why he is best combined with boly. A lot of our attacks are also started by him, not directly often but he starts so much off.
Ok, you clearly don't rate the lad as much as others on here do, which of course is your prerogative, but no one has said he's blameless. As has been pointed out though, he's a young kid and most can see the bigger picture that he needed regular football and as such he'd have dips in performances along the way, especially at a level as unforgiving as the PL. Ideally, he'd have had the experience of Felipe or Boly alongside him for far more games, and the manager would also have had opportunities to give him an occasional break, but events obviously haven't allowed that.
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I rate him very highly, and think Forest would be silly to ask for any less than £50m for him. But I'm not someone who would be happy to be relegated because of a terrible defence, but it doesn't matter because we helped develop a Brazil defender for Manchester City or Arsenal.
Murillo won't be the reason we were relegated though. Very few goals we have conceded are his fault and down to an error, and he saves plenty with his defending.
He was injured though, got subbed pretty much straight after it. I don't think a fit Murillo would have been turned so easily but then this is also the best striker in the world.
Agree.
I agree Murillo won't be the reason, if we get relegated. But he will certainly be a part of the reason, as will every other player in the team.
Agree with that Statto. He was injured after he came out with the ball from two Citeh players but it was obvious watching his movement thereafter that he was crocked. Shouldn't have been on the pitch.
But by the same virtue VP, there is still mileage in the old Sweeper-Stopper combo; pair Murillo with a big beast of a no-nonsense „stopper“ who can head and kick it away, and you’ve got a decent combination.
Agreed. With more experience his apparent limitations will become less obvious and less seemingly exploitable. Your point about pairing him with an effective, orthodox stopper is spot-on. That would have been the case had Felipe and Boly been available more often.
How is the weather back in the 1980’s Valspoodle?
VP is with me, back in the 60's I'll have you know.How is the weather back in the 1980’s Valspoodle?
The game is also less physical and route one when Cannavaro was in his pomp too. Franco Baresi is another good example, probably the best in the world at times in his career, he was 5'9". Ivan Cordoba, another great at CB and only 5'8". Bobby Moore was only 5'10". I think like others have said, he's only young and in his first full season and he's had far too much to do.