Even Fellaini has made some slick moves throughout his career. Don't use single moments as a reflection of how his ability is... By this reasoning, one could state that Lingard is a decent player based on one or two of his games.
Not always, but you get my meaning...
His height does not make him clunky, but it makes it more difficult to have an efficient technique like Matic does. And you can spot the difference between those players when they are receiving, controlling and passing the ball?
He regularly pulls off deft touches. It’s lazy to call him clunky because he’s not it’s also an outright lie to say he always needs lots of touches to control a ball.
People get an agenda and then will say anything even if not true to support it.
McTominay was poor yesterday but so was the whole side, it’s to be expected to some degree when you make so many changes even Bruno was off the pace.
I wouldn’t for one second say McTominay is currently on the level of Matic and it would be silly to suggest that but Matic wasn’t the DM we know until about 25/6 years old.
The biggest difference is Matic is more consistent in his line breaking passes and his positioning is definitely better.
I'd disagree that he was shockingly bad with his movement, he was running into spaces and making himself available for the pass, the pass that rarely came because of the players on the ball not having that pass in them more often than not.
Lingard didn't really make effective movements into attacking areas. He hides himself behind bodies and for me his performance can be best summarised by look busy and don’t make a mistake rather than genuine attacking impetus.
There was one occasion that I did spot a great run that wasn’t found when he was cutting in from LW and he was visibly frustrated by it. He did however make the run that would require a Hollywood pass from McTominay who was being pressed out side to the right. I think even Pogba would have struggled to pick that out.