With this in mind, my observation, albeit from the comfort of my armchair. On many occasions when face to face with an opponent player, the opponent makes to knock the ball past him, succeeds, and Manning seems to turn the wrong way, away from the travel of the ball, to try and snuff out the danger, but having gone the long way around to re engage, the oppo player has been given that micro second he needs to whip the ball into the box.