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He was very commited defensively. In this formation with Mata, Martial, Lingard and Lukaku in the pitch the midfield consists of Fred-Pogba actually. Both had to run as headless chickens 90 minutes. Should never play this way again.My stream wasn't the greatest, but I saw him being quite proactive defensively. Won a few tackles and in particular 1 excellent interception and clearance, running halfway down the pitch for it and then shepherding it out.
2 tackles won. Same as Fred.Bang average performance, penalties aside. So bored of watching him slow everything down, time and time again. Non existent defensively too. As usual.
Obviously didn't watch properly so, he was very good today. Worked hard, very good defensive input and of course the 2 penalties.Bang average performance, penalties aside. So bored of watching him slow everything down, time and time again. Non existent defensively too. As usual.
Guff is strong in this one.Bang average performance, penalties aside. So bored of watching him slow everything down, time and time again. Non existent defensively too. As usual.
I'm liking this new midfield partnership. Their chemistry needs some more work considering they only played like 5 games together the whole year but the lack of movement/quality from attack is nonexistent so it's left to them for the heavy work.Only him and Fred played well. Dude even dropped between the CB's and stuff
@Pogue Mahone you may want to revise your opinion.![]()
You are correct. I've felt this way about him ever since he joined, he's improved at it this season but it's still relatively easy to get by him.I feel like he is really easy to get past as a midfielder.
It might be unpopular but I'm going to agree with this.Nope.
He wasn’t poor but he was certainly average. I mean he’s still our most talented player by a country mile, so I have high expectations. I’m just so sick of his constant dilly dallying on the ball. Does my head in.
there are no central midfielders outscoring him. without pens he still has 7 goals and 11 assists.Have to admit him only scoring 6 or 7 goals in open play this season is quite poor.
This is going to sound weird but hear me out:You are correct. I've felt this way about him ever since he joined, he's improved at it this season but it's still relatively easy to get by him.
literally did more work than anyone in midfield. 12 ball recoveries and:Not enough work ethic either.
2 tackles won. Same as Fred.
1 interception. Fred had none.
2 clearances. Again, Fred had none.
Not only did he score and make some brilliant passes, he did the most defensive work in midfield, too. Absolutely won us the game today.
He really has to do wonders in order to get some praise.
To be honest I agree and in my opinion he was only the best of a bad bunch. In fact I don't think that a single of our midfielders has deserved praises in the last 40 days.Nope.
He wasn’t poor but he was certainly average. I mean he’s still our most talented player by a country mile, so I have high expectations. I’m just so sick of his constant dilly dallying on the ball. Does my head in.
I agree.To be honest I agree and in my opinion he was only the best of a bad bunch. In fact I don't think that a single of our midfielders has deserved praises in the last 40 days.
He's better than them while being younger, playing in a weaker team and mainly in a midfield 2.This is going to sound weird but hear me out:
We all hope that by playing more robust midfielders behind Pogba that it frees him to move forward but is that really going to get the best out of us long term? Pogba has an average midfielders creativity and won't create enough chances playing further forward for the rest of the team. Is Pogba as good as De bryune, Silva or Eriksen?
In my opinion, we need to play him like he does for France. Play him deep as possible and stop making him play all over the pitch as some creative CM. Put an AM in front of him and make Pogba retain his position and focus on doing a midfielders work and not an attackers.
Dont need stats to see who the better team was. As on Wednesday, we were utterly dominated yet again. Disgusting "performances". Pogba was marginally better but he hasnt shown the same willingness since the Liverpool game.Tweet
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Still more than the Liverpool/City midfielders. How poor must they be?Have to admit him only scoring 6 or 7 goals in open play this season is quite poor.
Maybe I am missing something, but 2 goals usually means you can overlook some negatives right? He was not perfect but worked hard and won us the game, with the way we were playing we needed penalties to score and he did.I thought he had a good game. With the 3 wasteful players in front of him, it was tough to get the ball moving around.
100%. Whenever somebody makes a good forward run he ALWAYS plays it when possible. I just don’t understand why people hate our players so much? It’s baffling.The Pogba agenda is very weird, he was good defensively in the first half in particular, worked hard and took two pressure penalties, as for people talking him delaying on the ball, a big reason for that is our movement up top is so poor.