2025/26 Vitalii Mykolenko

I don't think he had bad game yesterday but thought he was one of the weakest player in terms of performance. Solid defender mostly but we need to upgrade and he'd be good backup. Hopefully Aznou can step up his defending.

Think Patterson looked better on the other side too.
 
I don't recall any incidents when I really thought he had made a hash of it and put us in trouble. Tarks played the same suicide pass out of defence that cost us the other week. Got away with it this time yet nobody is slagging him off. Nobody is perfect. They cut it back a few times and their finishing was awful. Our central defenders nowhere near it. A clean sheet against a really form team and yet some people want to focus on Myko making the odd imperfect tackle or header as the entire defence did, but they were good enough. Of course a Baines type would be better but we have not got one and Myko is a good defender who we should keep as a reliable back-up if we do get a better one ready to go now.
Yes thankfully villa provided three poor free headers otherwise it could well have been a different game.

Tarkowski has come under heavy criticism this year and at times rightly so , but I know who'd id rather be on the pitch.

I dont rate him and think he costs us in both defence and attack . His distribution, crossing and link up play is also very poor . Usually he wins his aerial duels but not yesterday.
 

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