I genuinely think this tactic is awful and it isolates Pogba with no one for him to pass to, why not just keep it simple and have the 2 CMs in the CM position, call me old fashioned but it seems to work with Fred and McTominay.
I agree - the tactic is pretty poor.
I also agree with others, other midfielders such as Fred drop deep to get the ball. Difference is, they dont do it as often or stay there.
Last season, I was a big fan of Matic as he calmed the midfield down and his positioning was pretty good. This season, it's absurd. It's effecting us big time.
The CB's dont carry the ball up when Matic is behind them - so our entire shape is off. Our passing is pretty poor so when there's a bigger gap between our attacking midfielders / wide players and defenders we just can't get the ball to them. Our shape is a really big problem.
Fred is our best player from deep - he's got good passing and has the workrate to make a difference in there. Pogba is a luxury player, he doesnt do the hard yards and needs a player to basically do half his job so we're always going to have a problem in the DM/CM area.
Fred and Mctominey doesnt seem to work as they're both similar, with Mctominey being the worse passer and tackler.
Matic and anyone is a problem cos Matic is always too deep and lacks the legs to break up play.
And whoever plays with Pogba will have so much work to do to compliment what pogba brings.
The amount of times we are walking with the ball at the back with no urgency infuriates me. it's so slow and laboured and predictable - it's no wonder we struggle to break teams down