So reading this thread Ole was right and wrong about him? Seems he was good, average and poor depending on the perspective of the poster.
Missed the game so will have a run through after work and see how he really got on
Some people expect him to play like prime Paul Scholes in midfield with an old nursing home nominee Mata who gets bullied off the ball by a slight wind breeze directed at him as his partner.
He really hasn't. If McTominay made the errors he has this season, he'd have been hounded out of the club.
You gotta be kidding me with this. Fred and McTominay both make these kinds of mistakes numerous times in every match and have been called on it after every game. Fred, in particular, has taken a lot of flak, especially compared to McTominay. All right, I'll give you that at least Fred has some uses in other departments, but McTominay is generally anonymous. Even in the last game against Crystal Palace he made the least amount of passes from anyone. That's a midfielder, not a striker. Donny was an unfortunate that his mistake led to a wondergoal. Okay, fine, he did bad, but overall it was a much better performance than the standard McTominay ones. We also have to account the players Donny is playing with here. He's playing with Mata in the middle, Matic in CB and a bunch of youngters in attack. Certainly I do no see McTominay doing any better in that situation. He'd probably hide all game near the touchline out of fear someone of his teammates having the idea to pass to him.
Outside of Watford away, when has he really impressed? He had a moment against Newcastle but not done much else.
Last season it was more or less the same. He's been under utilised and so I think he deserves more opportunities but the way people go on about him versus how he's actually played are miles apart.
I have no agenda against him and I want him to do well but I have to be realistic about what I've seen these last 18 months.
I think he had a very good performance against West Ham in the Carabao, in the first game against Young Boys, couple of sub-appearances here and there and I might be missing something. Generally, he has earned a starting place over McTominay. Whether he can hold it is another matter entirely, but even his performance today was better than anything McTominay has given us this season apart from the Tottenham game where he was, shockingly, very good