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Guardiola would make him be a CDM like lahm.
Shaw either took ill or got injured after the lineups were announced.
City’s fullbacks last season went inside their wide man to great effect multiple times and caused havoc, in fact it was one of their more prominent go to moves. Shaw makes this run a lot but is often never picked out by Pogba or Martial. Still needs to get better at picking someone out in that final 3rd when he does get the ball but it’s sometning we really don’t exploit enough given that Pogba likes to drift wide to the left.
I don't know if he held himself back, but it felt like one of those accidental runs where he got a lot further then he expected to go - thanks to nobody being bothered to close him down.
That's interesting.
Its shows when Ole believes in them.
It was more that City’s fullbacks would attack the space between fullback and CB after the oppo fullback is drawn out and Walker or Mendy would just lay a ball across the box and they would do this time and time again to great affect. Think Pep covered it on one of the MNF’s anyway Shaw is capable of doing this and to be honest I have seen him do it in many games he is just never found.
In fairness to Shaw he was our best player at the start of the season too
This 100%. The amount of times i saw posters saying we needed to replace Shaw in the summer. Christ on a bike. He is arguably the best LB in the league.
He has been consistently good under Ole, and probably man of the match yesterday evening. Obviously the big question is whether he can keep doing it now that he can no longer use Mourinho's brain!
Rather silly to bring up. Because he was in fact both of those. Now he's improved his fitness and focus and improved tremendously. Hoping the same for Lukaku.
Think it was more just rather silly to say those things considering he looks about exactly the same size now as he did when everyone was calling him fat and only a couple of games ago people were calling him rubbish when he’s basically been doing the same thing for months, just took a long time for people to catch up but even then still regular posters claiming we need Tierney when he is no where near as good.
Not anymore. Apparently getting in shape makes you a better footballer
Find it really odd how some people can't seem to grasp that things can change and that doesn't change the past. He was clearly overweight for a good while. There were pics of him on holiday that prove it. He made it no secret that he got his arse in gear last summer and there's pics since where he looks miles better. Obviously that effort wasn't just getting into shape. Seems like he's really sorted his head out.
He certainly put a nice clarification on an issue that was dividing fans in this thread.
It makes a lot of sense as well when you watch games. He compliments our left perfectly, using his excellent first touch and control to move the ball on to our most dangerous players while keeping our left hand side safe.
Also the way he doesn't lose headed challenges. And how he finds a teammate with his headers nine times out of ten.
Exactly this and what I and others have said about Shaw in this thread before. When Martial plays ahead of him, there's not always a need for Shaw to bomb on. On Wednesday however, with Sanchez tucking in, there was plenty of room for Shaw to run into and that's exactly what he did. I personally don't find it a coincidence that arugably his best game going forward came without Martial or Rashford on the left wing. It's why Pep can afford to play Delph behind Sane.
Aptly put..
I thought it was obvious having watched our games but having confirmation from the manager is always a plus.
Nah, David has to take it on the chin for that goal. Can't get two hands too a shot you see all the way and not keep it out.
