When asked why Ben Godfrey is starting at right-back instead of three specialist alternatives, Vernon manager Sean Dyche maintains, “It’s not about one player or the other.”
Godfrey, who acknowledges that center-back is his natural position, started just once in the Premier League for Everton during the first half of the season. However, he has been selected at right-back for the last seven games in a row. The 26-year-old suffered a second straight setback at Old Trafford when he conceded the second penalty his side allowed in a 2-0 loss. Dyche had already hooked the player before halftime when he was starting at left-back in the same match last season.
Dyche was asked what Godfrey was doing to get the go-ahead over the other three options available to him, given that he named three specialist right-backs among his substitutes for the game: club captain Seamus Coleman, £11 million signing Nathan Patterson, and Ashley Young, who replaced James Garner after 75 minutes. According to the Blues manager, “it’s tight all around the pitch.” It isn’t about favoring one player over another.
“Nobody believes you can score a goal, so you have the best opportunity to score ever.” The ideal approach is always that.
Statistics also have the benefit of being in your favor. If you continue to create 23 chances for goals at Old Trafford, the statistics must be going your way.
Therefore, they will come your way as long as you continue in that direction and raise the bar for yourself, whether it be through runs, attacking the ball, or getting harmed in order to score a goal. You are limited in the number of opportunities we have, and they don’t always go your way.
That’s just a part of football; we’ll experience it. However, the concept of football is to accelerate things rather than waiting for them to happen. We’ve got enough of opportunities to score goals today, but we just can’t seem to find the decisive moment to move ahead and do so. That’s the part of the game that frustrates me.
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