Pogba happened to make the passes to led to both our goals, neither was exemplary or amazing! In fact the first pass to Martial was not good and required Martials skill to convert into an assist.
Re unforced errors, if you can’t see them, I don’t know what to say.
If certain users don't like Paul why come into this thread at all, more so why come into the thread to lie. Both passes were great in fact the second one could have eliminated Fernandes completely and still be good, the first was the best pass of the game; a ball into Martial so well postitioned that the defender could not get it. Anyone who has played the game would appreciate subtle details like that.
100% agree. Criticise him and the Pogba police are out in force with their excuse book.
Pogba is world class in the opposition half but in our half he is a liability. We have waited 4 years now for him to play well consistently and he hasn't done it. Bruno has been everything I expected Pogba to be.
More diatribe, he was playing a role that was requested of him but Ole, albeit a nonsensical one.
Fernandes was worse than Paul and if we was such a leader why not shout to tell him there was a man on or come back to help when there is goalkick.
Remember Cardiff on last day of last season? He did it again today. He's so bad at it. Gives the ball away in terrible areas because he's far too casual.
Brilliant footballer in the opponents half but I don't like him near our box. This is not a new thing today. He's very casual.
KDB is twice the player. I know Pogba fanboys won't like it but KDB doesn't do this what he does. He doesn't give cheap possession away like that costs City goals. That's the difference between the two. Pogba is mega talented but he's still got these brain fart moments. Nearly got punished for his 2nd one too later in first half.
It has nothing to do with being casual, the man was given the ball with four Soton players around him and the one he could not see nicked it. It was a bad decision to pass it to him on both occasions but you can see even after he went off they were then looking to do it to Fred so it is down to Ole's tactics. I back the coach wholeheartedly but I do not understand how he could have Paul surrounded and continue to have him play there, made no sense. Definetly why I say 4:3:3 is the better formation and stop this nonsense of Matic playing like a third CB and Fernandes playing like a FW.
Utter folly. Paul is the best in this league and while he had off colour day I can't look past the idiotic role he asked to play. He was the only one showing for the ball for those passes out from the goalkeeper and the soton players read it like a script. That is something by the way that does not happen at Manchester City especially not with a team that presses like that and by the way their team is better than ours.
And when you're faced with Pogba's lazy error in the first 20 mins of the game that led to a goal you don't like it and think I'm an "ass" for factoring into a comparisons of performance.
De Gea, Linedelof and Ole were lazier.
He just strikes me as weak mentally, or just incredibly immature. Look up see, get to know whats around you before you're ready to receive the ball facing our own goal. I mean, as talented as he is you might wonder if he is purposefully this bad. Terrible.
You don't achieve what he has by being weak mentally but I do think he needs to mature and improve his awareness. It is something I have always noticed about Paul and his only obvious weakness is that he struggles with a 3+ man press, when he is surrounded like he was most of the game he seems not to like it but he needs to figure it out. I understand if he feels annoyed at it though because it does not happen to many players, but he should take that as a compliment that rival managers always identify him as the main threat to be neutralized. When he can improve that fascet of his game and starts scoring regualrly again then the Ballon d'or would be his.
Pogba is a great player and with the right attitude can be a great player for us but it’s bizarre he has never cut out the also bizarre tendency to hold onto the ball far too long particularly in his own half. 4 years he’s been at United and he was at Juve 4 years prior to that, you’d think he would try and improve that side of his game. Cost us a goal tonight. He’s played pretty well recently.
He did not hold onto the ball too long when he lost it. Watch the highlights or something.