He'd have won feck all without Giggs and Scholes available too. In fact, that was one of the biggest issues in the last few years of Fergie's reign. We were overly reliant on our aging CMs to provide some class, composure and creativity in the centre of the park. As their powers declined, do did ours. And that was despite having a much younger version of Carrick in our squad, who was massively important in our most recent league title.
Pogba was supposed to bring a lot of those qualities back to our midfield but it hasn't happened yet. Not on a consistent basis anyway.
Funnily enough, in the early part of the season Matic really stepped up and did what I was hoping Pogba would be doing more often. Always looking like he has time, not afraid to put his foot on the ball, or beat a man and almost never wasting a pass. Since his form dropped off in the last month our midfield has got more and more dysfunctional and that's affected us a team. You can't ignore the way that a midfield which isn't doing its job properly can mess up the rest of the team. As it stands, our defenders are under pressure because they're not getting great protection when we don't have the ball and have limited passing options when they do. Our more attacking players are getting poor service, with the ball taking too long to reach them so they're starved of space and time. And all of this has a knock-on effect on confidence and, hence, overall quality of our play.
If Pogba and Matic had both kept playing as well as they've done in their best games this season we would be much better off than we are right now (which is saying something because we're not exactly having a crisis as it is!)
Sorry, but i think you failed to get the point mate.
I think he just tried to say that its a Manager job to make the best of the player that he have.
SAF succeded to make a better attacking unit base on player like Gigs, Scholes, Cleverley and even John O Shea. Even with player that have some individual issue between them like Sheringham and Andy Cole. He succeeded to get the best of them both working for the team.
While JM with the player he have now like Pogba, Martial, Rashford, Lukaku and Sanchez failed to do so. We rely on individual brilliance to get result.
For example to say that we are the best defensive team is purely wrong because we concede a lot of shoot on goal. If its not because of DDG we surely concede a lot of goals and bad result.
Why can we just defend like City? Because it need team work to do high pressing game not just the stamina of the player
Why can we just attack like City? Because it need team work to do fluid attacking football not just the talent of the attacker /player.
and after almost 2 season here, i see JM has done almost nothing to create his team identity.
Why i said so, because if we play as a team it will really hard to find the single player to blame when the result dont go our way.
We'll starting to look like JM anyway, blame other for our own failure.