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Back to his best today.
People must try hard not to post during the the first half (I mean I do it as well) but yeah, I agree fantastic performance from the 1st minute.Had the most passes on the pitch, around 89% accuracy. Won/intercepted the ball more than anyone.
And I checked at HT, his stats were pretty much 50% of the above. Just shows what a second half "win" can do to fans perceptions of performances.
Here, here. Best match in a long time.There’s the player I thought we bought.
Colossal in the 2nd half, completely shut them down.
Big credit to Scott, he helped him out massively.
I thought I was in the Scotty McT thread when I posted that! Aye yeah he was much improved today. He's been poor lately but that was a much improved performance today.Was he feck, hence why I was in here at HT calling him the best player on the park and massively up for it.
Won so much ball today, was bang on from start to finish. No idea whatsoever as to what some of you were watching if you didn't think he had a good first half.
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Colossal in the 2nd half, completely shut them down.
Big credit to Scott, he helped him out massively.
How do you know he’s tired?Dude was up for it today. But boy is he tired
He looks it. It’s been clear for a few games now but he put in one hell of a shift today.How do you know he’s tired?
He covered more ground than anyone.
Aye, makes no sense to say a player looks tired after a game in which he absolutely destroyed another top side.How do you know he’s tired?
He covered more ground than anyone.
It's not the second half though. He did very well individual in the first too. Second half was not only about us stepping up, but Chelsea losing steam. Kante was moved deeper as now he had a yellow card. This gives Pogba more space thus getting us to push them back more than the first. McTominay did well in marking Hazard out of the game in the second, and being disciplined (even great with the use of ball especially the key pass to Lukaku who assisted Lingard). That's impressive for a young player who was at fault for not tracking Willian for the conceded goal. He made mistake but not lost his head stay in game and turned it around.I've been very critical of him lately but in the second half today he was brilliant...
This is a bit of the cliche saying thing like this. There are games where Matic did similar to the first half (very good), yet we as a team still struggled just like we did for majority of the first half. It's a team game. It's easy to give credit when the team gets result, but turn a blind sight for similar level of performance when we can't get result. You can said the same about Lukaku. He is not very different than the so called other big games. Today we were able to create that clear cut chance for him and he did his jobHe looked fired up today in a way I've never seen him before. Probably to prove a point against his former employers. Started slow like the rest of the team but he bossed everything in the 2nd half. Best performance in ages.