Or Herrera or Mata or Blind they all have a weird **** followingBlame everyone just don't blame Lingard.
Or Herrera or Mata or Blind they all have a weird **** followingBlame everyone just don't blame Lingard.
I don't get the posters that feel the need to defend certain players as if they have some sort of personal affiliation towards them. It's ridiculous to praise Lingard when he plays well but blame everyone bar him when he has a shocker. It makes the 'Player Performance' threads a strange place at times.Or Herrera or Mata or Blind they all have a weird **** following
Just like really bad B movies have a **** following, really bad United players have a **** following, too. I can understand it with movies, it's a bit of a laugh. But there's nothing funny about watching Lingard playing for United, unless you're a scouser.Or Herrera or Mata or Blind they all have a weird **** following
Agreed. And what's more is that the objection doesn't seem to be that Lingard in fact plays well but that other players also play badly. So there's an acceptance, implicitly, that Lingard hasn't played well but a petulance that people have the nerve to point that out in the thread specifically designed to talk about Jesse Lingard's performances.I don't get the posters that feel the need to defend certain players as if they have some sort of personal affiliation towards them. It's ridiculous to praise Lingard when he plays well but blame everyone bar him when he has a shocker. It makes the 'Player Performance' a strange place at times.
Agreed, the amount of times he gave the ball away was unreal.He reminds of Fellaini in that the bar for him is set extremely low. I've seen him have very average games and people come in here and basically proclaim he played amazing. Then today he was clearly poor and yet it's been called a 'decent' performance. If that constitutes as 'decent' then feck me, the bar for this lad is very low indeed.
What adjustments? We are running out of players.We are crap at every level today. Even DDG was off. Therefore we have to take a look at the mental preparation of the team as a whole as organized by the manager. If everyone is tried and fatigued then Jose should've picked up on this and made appropriate adjustments before sending them out.
Not a hope. Look at someone like Son at Spurs. He's a squad player but the guy actually comes up with the goods and is miles better than Lingard.Hate to say it but he would struggle to get a game time at any of the top 6-7 PL side and definitely wont be starting for any of them.
Once people start bringing out the "he worked hard" excuse you know he must have been incredibly bad.He reminds of Fellaini in that the bar for him is set extremely low. I've seen him have very average games and people come in here and basically proclaim he played amazing. Then today he was clearly poor and yet it's been called a 'decent' performance. If that constitutes as 'decent' then feck me, the bar for this lad is very low indeed.
Or the 'intelligent' / 'good movement' lark.Once people start bringing out the "he worked hard" excuse you know he must have been incredibly bad.
I find this generally frustrating, too. Fellaini, for example, merely shifts the ball from side to side and wins a few headers and he's roundly worshipped for hitting such heights. Pogba and Herrera, meanwhile, would be slaughtered for such passive performances. Lingard, like Fellaini, gets away with less because the expectation isn't there. Ashley Young, likewise.He reminds of Fellaini in that the bar for him is set extremely low. I've seen him have very average games and people come in here and basically proclaim he played amazing. Then today he was clearly poor and yet it's been called a 'decent' performance. If that constitutes as 'decent' then feck me, the bar for this lad is very low indeed.
Yeah but Wembley, goals, or something like that.Headless chicken.
Cue the 'local lad, puts a shift in' argument. I know loads of local lads that would run around cluelessly for £100k a week.
Epitomises the lack of depth in the squad at the minute. These free-ride "squad players" need to step up in games like today. Lingard didn't. Wasteful and zero footballing brains or vision.
I checked this at halftime because someone was criticising him for this (even though I think its a weird criticism of an attacking player fullstop – do you really want your forward players playing safe passes and racking up a 100% completion rate?), and I checked it again now, but Lingard gave the ball away less often than both Rooney and Martial. Rashford had a better percentage, but made less than half the passes of those 3.I dont think Jose is to blame here. Lingard gave the ball away so much.
Most oppos I know think all of our players are shit, so that's hardly surprising.If he played for anyone else, there's no way anyone on here would rate him. I don't know a single oppo fan that rates him.
Have a word with the manager then. He just singled out Young and Lingard as looking sharper than everyone else today.Anyone who defends this lad needs their head checked. He is absolutely useless.
Yeah and he added because they didn't play the last game. So that makes your defence if Lingard worse. As he had no excuses about being tired.Have a word with the manager then. He just singled out Young and Lingard as looking sharper than everyone else today.
He wasn't tired and actually had a decent performance, which is what Jose was getting at.Yeah and he added because they didn't play the last game. So that makes your defence if Lingard worse. As he had no excuses about being tired.
He just said he was sharper because he didn't play the last game. Nothing about decent performances.He wasn't tired and actually had a decent performance, which is what Jose was getting at.
Sharper than the rest of the squad today means they were better than the rest of the players. Its not fecking rocket science.He just said he was sharper because he didn't play the last game. Nothing about decent performances.
Mourinho has played him consistently this year. Have a word with him. His view is obviously completely at odds with our resident e-experts in here.Some serious fecking straw clutching in here.
The overreaction in this thread. Good player.
The overreaction in this thread. Crap player.
If he didn't work hard then that performance would somehow even be more tragic.I guess with Rooney on the pitch Jose thought we'd need Lingard's work rate? He worked hard as usual but was absolute toss, as usual
This is my problem with some of the criticism Lingard gets as well.Mourinho has played him consistently this year. Have a word with him. His view is obviously completely at odds with our resident e-experts in here.
You could apply the same to Martial, who clearly isn't a left winger and is being shoehorned into the side, irrespective of the wrong position just because he's Martial. Jose will need to address this in the summer.Well at least "he tried". Exactly what he was trying is a bit difficult to understand.
I just can't understand what his role or position is. Is he a winger NO ... , a midfielder NO ...., a No. 10 NO .... , well then what is he doing , apart from getting in the way of others. Just ran around a lot doing nothing in particular.
And 100k a week, to put this madness in perspective he makes more than Marcelo and double what Isco makes.Anyone who defends this lad needs their head checked. He is absolutely useless.