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I'd say it's down to the ones who's left us with too many average players. McTominay simply shouldn't be a starter and pointing out that he's been one of our regulars doesn't exactly show he's good seeing that we are 7th on the table. His job is probably to break up play as that is what he's decent at, but he's sure as hell isn't doing a good job at distributing the ball. He'd probably be doing a lot more with creativity if he could, but he can't, and that's a limitation.
I posted it in an online forum. No need to be a coward about it.
I apologise mate that was a bit unpleasant
Supposedly ligament right? I’d prefer him have been sent off than to lose him to injury.
Disagree and yesterdays game was evidence that his defensive organisation skills are shocking. Neither of them are particularly brilliant at it but personally I would say there is more evidence Fred is the more defensively astute one. You can see Fred organising people and barking orders at people in almost every game. He also seems to have much better positional awareness of what’s going on compared to McT but then he is a lot more experienced.
Take a look where Scott was in relation to Fred every time they got a break. Then take a peek at where Pogba generally was when they got a break. If you’re feeling brave enough, take a peek at where Andreas usually was during our defensive transitions in those couple games Fred/Andreas played in our midfield two.
I’m not disagreeing that he won’t be a loss. What I picked up was the sentence “he was the keystone to any defensive organisation“ I though you were meaning between he and Fred he is the one that makes it work where generally I would say at times a reason we were exposed was due to McT and not so much Fred. Both in A way sort of compliment each other.
Yeah fingers crossed for this... I mean, he ended the 1st half after picking up the injury in the first few minutes... hope he is back soon as!
I think so. @Niall
Fred has been out performing him lately and we have pogba to come back in. We really shouldn't miss him against Burnley.
Pogba has no interest in staying close to Fred in defensive transitions like Scott does. When we lose the ball in transitions it will look like Fred is in islands of his own with Pogba no where to be seen . Scott is crucial to Fred.
He is such a different player to pogba I don't think that even needs to be pointed out, Fred looked hopeless without mctom a few weeks ago. They are a well balanced partnership. We will see if pogba and Fred are they same, my guess is they are not
They weren't that well balanced offensively, but were decent defensively; I presume a partnership with Pogba will be the opposite.
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Feck sake! The hell happened?
Ligament damage. Actually a relief it's only 3-4 weeks.
Bloody hell! Can't catch a break with our midfield! Pogba just comes back and now this!
Oh darn, forgot about that! Definitely a big loss for us!
Ole is extremely unlucky with injuries, it's fecking crazy.
