Nedum Onuoha

You know, they're not performing to their absolute maximum defensively, for example, to where you can say, well, that's all he can give us.

I think there's always the element to be able to work harder because some guys like, you know, I had a manager who once told me, you know, some people when they go into attack, it's like they're sprinting downhill.

But in defense, it's like they're running back up that hill carrying extra weight.

The pitch is flat.

You know, you can have the desire to try and do both things.

And yes, say defending isn't, say, the perfect skill for a lot of the attackers at Real Madrid and elsewhere around the league.

But you do the best that you can.

And I think if they get it right from the front, it's easy to get it right behind.

It's easy to get it right at the back and it's easy for the goalkeeper.

But for when other people aren't necessarily pulling their weight, then you end up being in this position whereby it's like one game on, one game off.

Because when it clicks, as we saw with PSG all those years ago, it looks amazing.

But then when it doesn't click, teams can have so much joy against you.

I think Real Madrid conceding four the other day kind of sums that up.

It's a goalkeeper.

It doesn't matter.

Even if you had 11 versus 11, you still wouldn't know who's supposed to be picking up the goalkeeper because it's just so abnormal.

But this is Real Madrid down to nine and probably we've noticed, look how few people they actually have in the box.

Like Real Madrid are still thinking about trying to score a goal themselves, which is this sort of like overall insanity of the moment itself.

You know, look, Real Madrid have got three players outside of the box refusing to defend.

They are down to nine players, Dan Thomas.