All depends on whether the manager is telling him to gamble and get in the box or whether the manager told him to at all costs make sure to cover the counter attack first. The young uns aren’t getting a look in (except Gordon) because they aren’t as defensively experienced as the plodders who keep getting game time.
When to gamble or not will come with time, I’m sure at the youth levels he wouldn’t have thought twice and would of been on the end of one of them. let’s not forget that if he’s out of position he leaves either a 33 year old right back who’s lost his speed or an out of form left back who is far better going forward than defending isolated, Gordon wants to play so he’s going to be safety first for a little bit longer.
Just how he’s going to get an assist with Rondon ambling about like a concrete slug is anybody’s guess