You must've watched some other game.
I agree about the Pogba bit, but as far as keeping possession and moving the ball quickly. 2 of his shots were very close and one was on target. Yes he had 6 shots in the first half, but with the time and space he found himself he should take shots.
Our defense looked really solid for the bigger part of the game. Of course they would push for an equalizer with 10-15 min to go and of course they would put us under pressure. They are a good team going forward. Jones was quite solid.
I think you're one of the few who are so disappointed with the team. Of course there are still areas to improve, but I think you're too harsh.
How many of these 30 yard efforts has he had since he joined the club, probably over 100 now? And so far none of them have managed to find their way into the goal. The long range goals he has scored have been from the edge of the area when the ball has been laid or broken back to him. i.e. when having a shot actually makes sense. Yeah a couple of them were close, but they didn't go in. The closest one was also as close to the keeper's hand as it was to the post so would have been saved anyway.
Our defending once they had the lead was o, and it was ok in general. We just had a spell where they seemed to have acres of spce on our left. They got in there twice. On another occasion they would have been clean through on goal if one of their players hadn't failed to spot a very simple pass. These are tings that can lead to losing a game instead of winning one, and which are preventable by players not going on walkabouts for unknown reasons.
I wouldn't say I was disappointed. I thougt it was an ok performance against a Leicester side who, to be fair, looked decent...but it wasn't a great performance either. We laboured in our attacking play, and we looked vulnerable on occasion on the break. We missed a penalty, and then when we did score it was down to basic defensive errors rather than s forcing it. It wasn't a game you can look back on and say we dug out a win in a way we wouldn't have 12 months ago, I don't think. It was a game that was drifting and then we scored.
Aspects of our performance were still very positive. We look very organised. We controlled the game well. Once we scored I thought there was little danger of us not winning...which IS a big differennce from last year. We look a lot more confident in ourselves and our gameplan than we did 12 or even 6 months ago. It's just early days and I thought Satarday was one of those days where we didn't really turn on the style or force the result. To be honest we could be the best team in the league by a country mile and there'd still be games like that, so after 3 league games it's difficult to read too much into it either way.
@noodlehair 
Come on, dude. How can you extract some many negatives from that performance?
I watched some of it back and I've no complaints about the effort, intensity, etc. I just thought we struggled to create openings and Pogba's performance was extremely irritating annd also disruptive to his own team. We'll play far worse this season for sure, but we'll also play a lot better.
And yet his fanboi's pat each other on the back thinking his was a match winning performance. Even Sky got in on the act, giving him the MoM award.
I don't post my frustrations with Pogba much this season because I get accused of negative bias. Luckily his ego has yet to cost us points and that may remain whilst Matic mops up his mistakes behind him.
But he is still far far away from being the supposed world class player some other fans seem to see. I hope he makes it, as he seems to possess many of the requisite requirements. But I still wouldn't gamble my house on him, if I had to.
He is weird as one week he'll cut out all the crap and look a superb player, then the next suddenly he's back to dallying around every time he picks up the ball, trying to score impossible goals and ignoring his team mates in the process, giving away the ball in the middle of the pitch due to daydreaming etc. It's like his brain hasn't yet figured out the difference between a good performance and a bad one.
I'm not saying I want him to cut out all the flash stuff, because I actually enjooy wwatching all that...but it's those times in games where he seems to decide he is playing for himself rather than the team. Where attempting to walk past 3 people on his own and thump the ball in from 30 yards seems more important to him than feeding the ball 6 yards forwards to his completely unmarked team mate. It's not a bloody school playground, and I'm not sure he's quite figured that out yet.
