He was terrible tonight. Running in to positions where people can’t get the ball to him (worldclass movement and all) even worse when he does get in a position where someone can get a ball to him it has to be fired in and his touch is like Lukaku has stumbled out of a pub and someone’s smashed the ball to him. Then he does the same thing over and over again. Turns out then cuts back and we lose all momentum. Game after game after game this happens. Dilly dallying on the ball too long when he should be releasing it and generally just being crap.
That right there is his lack of ability. It's not like he's selfish or anything, it's just that he lack that final ball or confidence to even attempt it let alone pull it off.
When you watch the game on TV and see him get the ball in good positions and turn while we're either in transition or just somehow found a pocket of space, you're thinking the pass is so obvious and quite frankly quite simple because you see above average attacking midfielders in those positions just slip a through ball to his running striker.
That doesn't happen with Lingard. He gets the ball in a dangerous area while we're breaking, space in front of him and he turns. The you have Martial or Rashford making the run. The pass becomes so obvious, just put in a though ball, that's what you see any other above average attacking player do in those situation. But that's not the case with lingard because he's so poor at the final ball that he'd rather break that move and lose that opportunity by either passing it sideways or his favorite which is going backward and leave that creative responsibility to anyone else.
This is why the man has no goals or assists to his name in over 9 months. Tragic stuff.