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diggz:
I hail your lying ability you unrepentant f00l.

Lilbros aka Mr linus mba! I'm still waiting for you to back up your claim shameless old liar.

Godx:
I agree with you here. Ability to head the ball should be a prerequisite for any Centre back especially at the highest level.

Greatihex:
I did not play football professionally. I have not been following football for 100 years like you guys. But, if you have been following football for a long time and still think that there is nothing Ferdinand would have done there, then I can't help you.

airmark:
I told him to take to corrections, he said i needed it more.

I don't know why he lies, to score cheap points on a faceless forum.

pkasso:
Same way goalkeepers are expected to make saves and strikers are expected to score goals. Does that mean we shouldn't praise players that excel at these things and do them better than others? VvD is the most dominant CB aerially in today's game and i don't see why we shouldn't give him props for that.

airmark:
It was in their bid to rubbish VVD's defensive prowess they shot themselves in the leg, that winning aerial duel is nothing.

Look at VVD here tracking back to nod away the ball from Kane winning it.

Similar aerial ball Boathand failed to nod away and Martinez capitalised on, to score here.

Leyqute:
Boateng didn’t track that ball well. That’s a really poor display from a supposed top defender. It’s the kind of mistakes Lindelof used to make.

timbros:
SkimpleD

Wike no dey smile o. He has constructed iron barriers in the state borders.

Him don even start demolition of the hotels

https://www.nairaland.com/5847932/governor-wike-constructs-iron-block

Leyqute:
Boateng didn’t track that ball well. That’s a really poor display from a supposed top defender. It’s the kind of mistakes Lindelof used to make.

airmark:
See Ferdinand looking like mumu. If it was VVD, you, nitrogen and ramdeuter wouldn't let us hear word.

What happened to looking over his shoulder and tracking Messi's run since he was the only threat unmarked and closer to him, before the cross?

I can give multiple gifs where VVD tracked such runs and headed the ball to safety (pro-activeness). But to you, nothing is there in nodding aerial balls away. You no know ball

airmark:
If VVD was the one in that situation, had tracked Messi's run and nodded the ball away, you would have come here to tell us no biggie in what he did, since that's what all cbs are trained to do - to win aerial duels, in fact against a midget (Messi).

Take your L peacefully.

Godx:
I agree with you here. Ability to head the ball should be a prerequisite for any Centre back especially at the highest level.

raumdeuter:
Actually the same would have happened to VVD because like Rio he also plays avoidance football where he runs away from opponent

VVD in that position would be pointing to Matip or someone else to mark Messi and shouting on how to jump instead of doing it himself

If you look at the gif below it is the same way a similar shorter attacker beat VVD to the ball

This is how the epitome of defending actually defends

airmark:
How many attackers were threats to Ferdinand and how many did VVD need to deal with here?

Look for a perfect example, this one is DOA.

thorrvik55:
Which used to make?? Lol

Lindelof still makes such mistakes. I remember like three United games I watched this season that he made such mistakes (I think one resulted to a goal earlier this season).

airmark:
'Look over your shoulder', is what coaches always ask cbs,

obainojazz:
It's no more tracking the ball.. that gif is a perfect example..

raumdeuter:
We can see how VVD looked over his shoulder here

https://j.gifs.com/OM00JR.gif

airmark:
One doesn't even need to play pro before one uses sense to grab it when explained.

'Look over your shoulder', is what coaches always ask cbs, when they are strangely free in the box, when the opponents are with the ball in the flanks.

Ferdinand was mumu for that goal. They call it loss of concentration.

pkasso:
Same way goalkeepers are expected to make saves and strikers are expected to score goals. Does that mean we shouldn't praise players that excel at these things and do them better than others? VvD is the most dominant CB aerially in today's game and i don't see why we shouldn't give him props for that.

raumdeuter:
Like this

raumdeuter:
VVD has only been in the spotlight for over 2yrs and we can see the amount of gifs we can generate.

Imagine if he has been in the spotlight since 2006 when Ramos faced Dinho or since 2010 like Boateng

Just a little over 2years largely in Klopps protected system and we have that many receipts, Imagine if he was playing weekly in Madrid "Answer your papa name" system

airmark:
It was in their bid to rubbish VVD's defensive prowess they shot themselves in the leg, that winning aerial duel is nothing.

Look at VVD here tracking back to nod away the ball from Kane winning it.

https://j.gifs.com/ROVVoz.gif


Similar aerial ball Boathand failed to nod away and Martinez capitalised on, to score here.

https://i.imgflip.com/r9yfy.gif

airmark:
Better than missing the ball like Boathand against Martinez.

Expert17:
Who are the players protecting him??