You are right, he is not the normal Pep player. If you look at everyday at the office work he is probably making them worse as a team. He scores goals but nothing else, plus the team effort is to reach him. But the he has that x-factor Pep...
We have been losing the ball in midfield like that several times per game for a few seasons now. It puts the CBs in a very difficult situation where they have to face a forward at good speed 1v1. But Casemiro, Bruno, Dalot, … they all lost the...
He was doing poor things and good things but as a cb you are evaluated on the poor things and the mistakes as they could be costly and today they were costly. In that sense it is more difficult for him as a cb than for a young attacking player...
Agree it is extreme. And actually I would say it is not mainly because of the injuries, it is because of failure of the supposed first team players like Rashford and Antony, and the central midfield that gave Garnacho and Mainoo the chance, and...