Konstantinos Mavropanos

Mavropanos defends with real edge rather than caution, stepping across strikers and winning physical battles at a rate that beats his reputation among fans. He clears his lines fast under pressure and competes hard in the air, jobs a centre back gets judged on by anybody watching closely. His passing from the back is tidy too, rarely giving the ball away in a bad area.

What undoes all of that is concentration, because a single lapse can wipe out seventy good minutes and leave him carrying the blame for a costly goal. That gap between the numbers and the moments fans actually remember is exactly why he divides opinion so sharply. Whether he can cut out those individual errors, rather than just keep producing good defensive stats around them, will decide how his reputation finally settles.