Thought it was interesting to compare these two seeing as Ole seems to see them as interchangeable in attacking midfield roles - there was some chat about the two of them on the last podcast with @VanGaalyTime describing Pereira as 'the anti-Lingard'!
Looking at some stats, Lingard had the highest passing accuracy (85.5%) of our attacking players whereas Andreas is the lowest (73.3%) apart from Rashford. Andreas also had less touches than anyone else so not looking good for him on the passing stats, although Lingard was also relatively low on touches so both needs to get more involved.
However, Andreas comes out of the game with 1 vital assist and also had 2 successful crosses and 2 successful long balls, compared to zero for Jesse on both counts so clearly he is attempting riskier plays whereas Jesse tends to play safe to keep the ball moving.
Based on this I think Lingard should play centrally and Andreas better off out wide - we were better when they switched to this vs Chelsea.
Obviously shouldnt read too much into 1 match but a lot of this backs up my feelings over time on both players - generally I think we are still to see enough from either to consider them starters but Ole is clearly going to give them both a chance to prove they are upto it.
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Looking at some stats, Lingard had the highest passing accuracy (85.5%) of our attacking players whereas Andreas is the lowest (73.3%) apart from Rashford. Andreas also had less touches than anyone else so not looking good for him on the passing stats, although Lingard was also relatively low on touches so both needs to get more involved.
However, Andreas comes out of the game with 1 vital assist and also had 2 successful crosses and 2 successful long balls, compared to zero for Jesse on both counts so clearly he is attempting riskier plays whereas Jesse tends to play safe to keep the ball moving.
Based on this I think Lingard should play centrally and Andreas better off out wide - we were better when they switched to this vs Chelsea.
Obviously shouldnt read too much into 1 match but a lot of this backs up my feelings over time on both players - generally I think we are still to see enough from either to consider them starters but Ole is clearly going to give them both a chance to prove they are upto it.