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This is mainly due to how football is now played, lots of teams play with a high line and/or fast pacey front 3, both of those require pacey defenders to cope UNLESS you play an Italian style deep low block but as we’ve seen recently this is a little outdated and more often than not unless you Have you guessed it... PACE in attack you will offer nothing on the counter and then your slow experienced defenders will eventually be picked apart.Just tired of people not realizing that Pace/Speed/Quickness is a thing that is needed, Why do people think some that Some of the best fullbacks in the World are pacey , Why do teams try to get pacey Wingers, if he (Trips) had more pace to keep up With the Sterlings, Mane's Adame Traore's of the world etc, I think honestly Trips would be a great defender, but if you run a 100 Meter Dash in 12 secs, And I run it in 9, I will see u at the finish.
If Kyle Walker had no pace you think pep would have even Batted an eyelid Walkers way. Pace does help and for all you saying its positioning , knowing how to defend etc and so on, Be Serious.
Pace is not everything but it is certainly very important, I’d add athleticism to that not just ‘pace’ I like Aurier I think he is athletic just like rose is, trippier is absoloutley not.