And yet there is a difference between freezing regularly and freezing once in a blue moon! Not to forget freezing on shots close to the box and shots from farther outside.
He concedes very few goals from outside of the box. Most shots that beat him to cause the "freezing" are bullets that come from wide open attackers under no pressure. If he had conceded the goal Buffon conceded and failed to dive in the same way Buffon did this thread would be alight. If a shot comes in that the goalkeeper can't come close to saving more often than not it's the fault of the defense for allowing such a shot. Only at Barca do fans try and blame the goalkeeper for those goals.
And so what? I'm not talking about his freezing, but his constant lack of communication with his defence and his poor aerial ability constantly flapping at crosses, mostly trying to punch the ball instead of collecting it.
Pure rubbish to say he lacks communication with his defense and his poor aerial ability really doesn't have anything to do with his freezing at all. Why are you trying so desperately to derail the conversation of "Buffon froze and isn't getting slaughtered" by bringing up things that have absolutely nothing to do with that?
Are you going to tell me it's not a flaw now? Or are you going to tell me to put my head in the sand? Look through my post history on this thread and how much I've supported this guy.
Genuinely don't know what the fuck you're on about. When you said you weren't talking about his freezing god damn, you meant it. Unfortunately, that's the topic at hand, so...?
You can turn a blind eye to the flaws he need to iron out and the areas he need to improve while being a fanboy of his, but I won't.
I can agree he has flaws he needs to work on, but if you're going to call me a fanboy for supposedly ignoring his flaws when I'm talking about the god damn issue of FREEZING maybe instead of digging your head in the sand you can try pulling it out of your ass first.
As for his freezing then the post above nails it and while it may work at times, it's not great for a goalkeeper to premeditate so many shots.
Maybe it's not great, but it's not nearly the problem people are so desperate to make it out to be. He has yet to concede a goal this season while still making saves and a lot of it comes down to having proper defending in front of him, which more often than not goes completely ignored by the hate mob that forms every time he concedes a goal.
