Really don't know what the fuss is about the goals conceded last night.
First goal - Cavani got away from his marker, had a free header from close range. Bad defensive marking. Although I think anything in the air in the 6-yard box should be the GK's to take.
Second goal - quite simply a super strike that the best keeper in the world, of any era, would have no chance of reaching. Defenders stood off.
Third goal - his foot slipped on the turf at the vital moment, that was plain to see.
Other than that, he did well.
Even though Olsen should have done better, in my view, with all three of the goals, I think we've all been very quick to absolve the defending - which was utterly abysmal. Davies was pathetically far off Fernandes, who made him do a little dance, for his "wonder goal", and how McTominay beat about three men for the third I'll never know. Basically, the team did not protect Olsen last night in any way, shape, or form.
De Gea was also made to look pretty poor by his own team-mates, who exposed him to oncoming traffic more than once.
Last night saw two teams who didn't do the basics properly. The goalkeepers, who admittedly played no better than their team mates, will always look suspect in such situations. But the only winner from this was
Jordan Pickford. Olsen went from hero to something of a villain last night, although, to be fair, it's more a case of him going from superhuman to human in the space of three days. Pickford is nothing like as poor as some paint him, and Olsen is nothing like as good as some felt after his display against Leeds, where he had a moment all goalkeeper's love: multiple reaction saves in one passage of play. Pickford, it seems to me, could just as easily have made those saves on Wednesday and those slips last night. One cost 30 million and the other buttons - and it is that reality that will, eventually, decide the current battle in Pickford's favour.
