Ah wondering how much ah allyuh ever play sweeper. A lot of time the 'mistakes' the sweeper makes is usually the product of prior mistakes, mispositioning, miscommunication or lack of same by other players.
Barring the keeper, the buck sometimes stops at the sweeper. Tallman made a good point. On this team, the sweeper DL ,does find heself sweeping up other people tata!!! allyuh watch the game good nah.
Now doh get meh wrong, ah not saying the man without fault, but watch and see why he does end up in some ah the position he does find heself in and try to relate it to yuh own experience .. that is if you ever play sweeper with a set a men that pulling yuh stones....midfield very much included.
this is true on altidore's goal in the US...both Makan and Keyeno were drawn out of position by Donovan..which lead to the goal.
similalrly..the Costa Rica third goal..which he isn't as accountable as say Trent Noel...but he made a bad decision after the defence was already breached...if these were the errors he was making alone..i would have no quarrel
however, I've noticed for quite a while..Dennis has been lapsing greatly and making decisions a SENIOR defender should not do...
In the El Salvador game I counted at least three occasions Dennis was bailed out by either Spann or Akile after being drawn out by opposition attackers...
On a counter attack I actually saw the maligned Akile had to tell Lawrence to return to a central position as both defenders seemed to be chasing the attacker with akile clearly in a better position to intercept...
In the US game..he left a long ball to go through to Ince..UNAWARE that Landon Donavan was making a run in behind him...we got lucky wid dat..along with several others people have overlooked
The US equaliser in the home win...he miscontrolled at the top of the box..which allowed Altidore to get the ball..altidore took a bad touch and Dennis went in and LOST a 50/50 challenge instead of attempting to clear..which leads to the US goal as our entire defence was exposed..
These are not errors an experienced defender is supposed to make..sweeper or not...
We play a flat back four..with two centre halves..he is not the sweeper per se..