David de Gea: Blind Madridista – Man United News and Transfer News

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David de Gea gave a efficiency that can make some Manchester United followers flip their minds again to 1999.

Not the great outdated days of the highs, however Massimo Taibi’s disastrous efficiency towards Chelsea.

United misplaced 5-0 that day and the Italian participant made a collection of horrific errors whose place and consciousness earned him the notorious nickname ‘The Blind Venetian’, main straight into objectives as weak photographs rolled underneath him.

Yesterday United have been weak as a unit and utterly capitulated, however it may be exhausting to maintain your head up when your goalkeeper actually lets him go each shot.

It took till 81 for De Gea to lastly make a save from a speculative 25-yard effort from Harvey Elliot. He conceded the sixth purpose within the subsequent two minutes.

Because the Spanish participant couldn’t defend towards set items all through the sport, he completed the sport with 50% go accuracy, with out haste and with just one excessive declare. (SofaScore)

This was all what United followers anticipated of De Gea – he is not excellent on the fundamentals of the distribution, dealing with the center floor, or being proactive.

However the Crimson Devils caught with him, even making him the very best paid participant on the membership, the very best paid goalkeeper on the planet and the very best paid Spanish participant on the planet for his means to cease photographs.

It is vitally tough to justify David de Gea’s place within the workforce.

At this level within the season, in fact, it is too late to essentially do something about it, with Tom Heaton and Jack Butland unlikely to supply rather more at this level of their respective careers.

Heaton is a well-liked participant within the locker room, however within the twilight of his profession, Butland’s personal profession has lengthy been in decline regardless of solely being 29 years outdated.

But when De Gea is beginning to persuade anybody that he is nonetheless the one to put on gloves subsequent season, he’ll put these concepts out yesterday.

It was clear at first of the season that he was not an ‘Erik ten Hag goalkeeper’ and United’s makes an attempt to signal gamers within the profile of Yann Sommer and Kevin Trapp point out a want to switch him final summer season.

That can appeared to be waning when there was discuss of a brand new contract for De Gea that may maintain him on the membership for an additional three years.

However plans have modified, and the probability of Ten Hag persevering with to show a blind eye to the previous participant’s apparent shortcomings appears to be waning within the face of performances like yesterday.

The underside line is that if you are going to be restricted, you really want to excel in your area of interest. David de Gea would not appear to try this anymore.