Bit rich for you to accuse anyone else of missing stuff when you said that Chong achieved nothing in a game where he won a penalty with a neat piece of skill.
Anyway. Martial. Distinctly “meh” performance. Took his penalty well and I’d like to think there’s a good player in there somewhere. Needs to buck up his ideas though. He’a not a kid any more.
Don’t believe I said he achieved nothing. Because Chong did have some good runs that were nearly something, nearly got on the ball. He had a decent game but I would have said Martial had a better game but seems some think that 1 chop back that wins you a penalty is some sort of golden chariot.
Martial picked up a lot of positions that fill in for others like how he found himself covering out on the right when Lingard and Gomes had pushed on, or when similarly dropped in to midfield and covered a position add that to his hold up and link up play then for me that was better than what other were producing.
Obviously people see football in many different ways which explains why so many thought Carrick was rubbish for the longest time and why somehow people were convinced Bailly and Rojo were world class and that Valencia was the best RB in the world.
But martial is a divisive figure hence why you get people that don’t like him going on about Martial FC and trying to say people support a player more than the club which is a ridiculous accusation
like something a child would come up with.
Should add in no way am I saying his performance today was brilliant but there were a lot of poor performers for me in that 2nd half and as a whole we weren’t playing as well or implementing the same things we did against Perth.