flappyjay
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I see now Martial is the one getting a lot of stick for how crap our midfield is. Apparently he isn't affecting play because he is lazy. Let's not forget that one of our more active forwards Rashford was getting less touches than anyone bar de Gea before Martial returned. It doesn't matter how much someone runs when the ones responsible for passing the ball to him are clueless at that part of the game.
You can see a difference between when the Bournemouth midfield was allowing our midfielders to play in the first 10 mins. Marital was linking well with James and they were creating a bunch of half chances. As soon as Bournemouth closed down our midfield mctominay could barely complete a forward pass and Andreas decided to do a Mata and disappear. I would wager any one of Rashford, Martial and James would make the Liverpool bench. Look at our current midfielders none would make the bench when everyone is fit that's how poor they are.
Now I am not saying we couldn't challenge for top 4 with Fred and mctominay (top 4 is probably at its weakest in a while) but if you are going to have those two as your midfield base you better have someone like prime Ozil ahead of them feeding the forwards. Alternatively only one should be playing alongside two creative cm's. Instead we have them playing alongside the worst set of 10s in the league. Look at all the teams we are challenging leicester have Tielemans and Maddison for creativity, Chelsea have Jorginho, mount, willian at occasions. Liverpool have their fullbacks and city have an army of creative players. Look at our squad and ask yourself besides Pogba who the feck do we genuinely expect to provide our forwards. Look at Spurs their main creative force has been crap and that has coincided with them being as shite as us.
You can see a difference between when the Bournemouth midfield was allowing our midfielders to play in the first 10 mins. Marital was linking well with James and they were creating a bunch of half chances. As soon as Bournemouth closed down our midfield mctominay could barely complete a forward pass and Andreas decided to do a Mata and disappear. I would wager any one of Rashford, Martial and James would make the Liverpool bench. Look at our current midfielders none would make the bench when everyone is fit that's how poor they are.
Now I am not saying we couldn't challenge for top 4 with Fred and mctominay (top 4 is probably at its weakest in a while) but if you are going to have those two as your midfield base you better have someone like prime Ozil ahead of them feeding the forwards. Alternatively only one should be playing alongside two creative cm's. Instead we have them playing alongside the worst set of 10s in the league. Look at all the teams we are challenging leicester have Tielemans and Maddison for creativity, Chelsea have Jorginho, mount, willian at occasions. Liverpool have their fullbacks and city have an army of creative players. Look at our squad and ask yourself besides Pogba who the feck do we genuinely expect to provide our forwards. Look at Spurs their main creative force has been crap and that has coincided with them being as shite as us.