I recently noticed that my performance on defender site is most of the times horrible. I mostly go double/triple negative on defense and I just can't pin point on what the reasons may be. On attack it's fine, most of the times my stats are...

I'm fairly new and after i saw my friend struggle to rank up after he got placed in iron 2, i'm anxious if i'm good enough to play good to escape the low elo's. Is this normal and what should i do, should i play the placement matches or sho...