Other than injury, these two are also the main reason why we are in the position where we are right now on the table. They offer nothing and we are relying on them too much.
No end product, no creativity, can't find the right man, can't hold the ball, likes to give fouls away & headless chicken. They are pretty much players with the same weakness, the difference is that Lingard has pace while Pereira doesn't have, Lingard is worse passer but doesn't make Pereira anything closed to be called good passer of the ball. However, Lingard nowdays can't even control the ball and take a first touch of the ball which makes him less favourite than Pereira in the manager's view.
Even Pep & Klopp will struggle if these two are their only option in their attacking mid. Time to move them on. Ole probably already started to make the move by signing Bruno. Hopefully this sends message to those two players that they haven't been good enough at all.