I have had time to reflect now and calm down after yesterday, but i am afraid after watching this performance and many others AWB Is not and never will will be a top 4 team full back.
His positional skills and awareness are lacking but due to his long legs and pace he at times is able to get himself out of trouble. If you doubt me ask yourself why is he having to make so many last ditched tackles from the wrong side, wrong foot and many heart in mouth moments as he goes to ground to make such challenges.
My biggest concern re his abilities is his presence on the ball, footballing brain, passing and presence.
He appears to lack confidence in his own abilities when moving forward and many times stops the ball dead and makes a negative pass back and sideways, often poorly (he is not alone) either lack of pace on the ball or allow the receiving player to move onto the ball and kills any chance of a counter attack (remember them!)
When in a forward position his decision making is poor and final ball is poor at best .
From yesterday alone there were two glaring examples, shortly after the second goal he was given a ball on the edge/corner of the box by Greenwood, with time and space, with a clear and obvious crossing channel to be played along the ground towards the back post as a cross/shot. His attempt was to play murder ball with a chest high cross that got blocked and went out for a corner.
A short time after this he was given a ball and played with the opportunity to play a 5 yard ball into Bruno on the edge of the box again with little pressure and resulted in a thigh high pass that no one could do anything with.
I can hear people say he is defender its not his responsibility and so on on, but this is United and if you have any expectations at moving to a higher level there is an expectation that United should be attacking more than defending in most matches so has to have certain qualities if you want to move forward as a team.
I accept that he is is not being helped by the lack of any quality regular forward right sided person and lack of movement from the attacking players but i do not believe he has the personal attributes to be a long term full back for United.