It did include the header though. And however valid the stat is (I hate assist stats for the same reason) it's surprised many people (talking to others away from here) when I've mentioned it.
EVERY player makes mistakes in EVERY game. And *almost every goal scored can be traced to what is deemed a mistake, for instance, why was Kane or Perisc not standing on Alisson when he hoofed it to Salah? (Harsh, but had one of them done this that ball might not have been played as accurately).
I could go through the entire team yesterday (not really going to) and I bet I could spot at least 4 mistakes per player (both sides).
(One of the worst culprits in our defence is Romero, but his game is all about playing in the face of the oppo, he over-commits and/or gets drawn out of position probably at least a couple of times a game but even doing this there is a positive aspect he brings to our game state (aggressive in our defensive third). Dier tends to do a lot of his mopping up, I believe this is the trade-off and part of the accepted risk and it's part of the partnership) but however you choose to analyse Romero's game it is littered with mistakes every single game some of them more recently have led to goals against us.
Dier's mistake yesterday was horrendous and arguably cost us the game but he's genuinely not the issue that he's made out to be, just the go-to fall guy, he was bloody good in the second half and became our creative outlet for large positions of it (just as he was in the same role against Bournemouth).
