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You writing in his column in the Daily Telegraph, former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher of the only challenge Jordan Pickford Virgil van Dijk is not discussed, but the goalkeeper Everton decision making in general.
He says:
I do not agree with the suggestion Jordan Pickford began deliberately to hurt his opponent. I know how much feeling. Van Dijk, torture is physical. For Pickford, it is psychological.
As a player and now an expert, you try to evaluate from the perspective of a professional partner and – if possible – to avoid being accused of double standards. That’s why I looked beyond the raw feelings following address Pickford and I saw what it was – reckless, not malicious.
Pickford did what I did against Nani. His initial move was to the ball, unaware of the man. When he realized it was too late and out of position, he panicked, lost control and went into.
These were the actions of a player whose head is all over the place. It has been for a while.
Today, whenever Pickford takes a critical decision on the pitch, more often than turns out to be the wrong one. One had serious repercussions for the defense of Liverpool.
These are horrendous situations sometimes be treated with in the game. bad injuries are an occupational hazard.
As professionals, there are demands on us coaches and fans not shirk a tackle – especially in a derby.
I can assure you, when we do what our main concern is to be aggressive to take care of ourselves and help our team, does not cause injury.
Similarly, sore Liverpool reaction is not unique and do not see the hypocrisy of those who accuse my old club go too far in his immediate response to it.
The sense of being wronged by key decision later inflames the already volatile situation party. Because all this happened in a Merseyside derby and the challenge of Pickford went unpunished, emotions intensified.
As for the idiots in social media aimed at Pickford or Richarlison, which are no more representative of Liverpool fans as those Evertonians who molested Wales Neil Taylor when leg Seamus Coleman broke during an international in 2017, or Heung-Min Son after Andre Gomes suffered a year ago. It is telling that the answers class more after these incidents came from Coleman and Gomes.
It is that it may not seem the broader problem Pickford and his manager Carlo Ancelotti to avoid being the center of attention every time he plays computer. For any player, it is a dangerous situation.
If a manager goes on every press conference knowing that it will be asked by the same individual for negative reasons – as was again the case for the coating Ancelotti in the match on Sunday at Southampton – asked if that player is really worth the hassle.
Unfortunately for Pickford, at the moment it is not. Ancelotti is being questioned about errors of assessment of caregiver as well as performances by Everton, which is not a good place to be when it’s a club in the Premier League.
What it happened last weekend sums to Pickford’s career since the last World Cup. Whenever you make a mistake that has repercussions.
We’re not talking about a blip. Pickford has been poor for 18 months w