Having not seen the game, I find it funny that some say Maxwell had a great game while some say he had an awful one!!!
My feeling is that he had a good one but people want static LB's that don't attack. To me, a perfect fullback is someone like Cafu: Great at going forward and crossing, average at defending but still backtracks. And since we lack creativeness and you win by goals, I'd rather have such fullbacks.
If your CD's have a good positionning sense, then the mistakes of a fullback are absorbed.
those who have maxwell playing a good game obviously have selective memories of how he was beaten time and time again by the same two players
maxwell was hopelessly exposed on defence, when either samuel, or zanetti is dragged away from helping his ass, he couldnt recover which almost always led to a ball across the face of the goal or a short pass to the top of the 18-yard box where udinese fortunately shot wide, or straight at the keeper each time
i am not opposed to seeing chivu at LB rather than CB
or even if that doesnt work out, play zanetti at LB and move chivu into midfield, he was relatively solid subbing for dacourt yesterday and with that left foot can actually throw some decent balls into our forwards unlike maxwell, who's only redeeming quality is like semi-decent dribble, he has no shot, no speed, no agility, and no mental hardness to cope
i dont even know why mancini insists on playing maxwell at LB and zanetti in DM rather than the other way around
its plain to see that maxwell just cant cope, and that his offensive game would be better suited to playing in midfield, not the defense where his defensive incapabilites are exposing inter