VDV's copped a lot of blame for the conceded goal in spite of scoring the opener in the forum I frequent.
A lot of people are rehashing the "we're a 4-4-2 team" argument and basically calling for him to be dropped in favour of Defoe. This is despite his record of 4 goals scored, and 2 assists in 3 NLDs!
Found it ridiculous that Walker copped none of the blame for covering Song considering it was his flank and these images of their start positions until the goal show that Walker and VDV should at the very least share the blame for that goal.
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White arrows show the actual paths they ran, red arrow shows the path Walker should have taken.
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starting positions
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ending position
As you can see, it's annoying to hear arguments that VDV couldn't be bothered to cover his man, he ran 20 yards compared to Walker's "hands behind his back" 5.
Don't get me wrong, Walker had a great game, but they were both culpable for the goal conceded and both scored. So why is Walker the hero and VDV the liability?
On a side note, a video confirming that it was a handball.
http://blip.tv/luminoir/vdvhandball-5608745