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2020-21 Performances

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6.4 Season Average Rating
Appearances
58
Goals
28
Assists
17
Yellow cards
7
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Poor today but he’s a class player. Maybe playing 72 games is the reason for his dip? Seems more likely than him being overrated. He’s nothing like Rashford either.
 
Good the other day creating all the dangerous chances for Protugal but poor today like the other Portugal players. Ronaldo is the only positive.
 
Can see him being dropped for Renato Sanches against France.
 
Portugal had zero control of the midfield and no ball. Bruno plays as the second highest attacker, like Pogba, it's not always his fault.
 
Needs a rest, looked good last game after 2 weeks off but a lot of his game involves running and movement and he hasn't been able to do that over the last 2 months as you can tell he's been fatigued.

Which is why I want us to sign an AM like Buendia, we can't have Bruno playing every minute of 50 games with his play style.
 
marktan said:
Needs a rest, looked good last game after 2 weeks off but a lot of his game involves running and movement and he hasn't been able to do that over the last 2 months as you can tell he's been fatigued.

Which is why I want us to sign an AM like Buendia, we can't have Bruno playing every minute of 50 games with his play style.
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Ole doesn’t really rotate though. We had van de Beek & it made no difference.
 
He was so shit that only the two holding midfielders had a better pass completion than him but yeah all his fault
 
He is good when everything goes through him. He was very good for Sporting because everything went through him. He is very good for us because everything goes through him. Lingard proved at West Ham that he could also be very good if everything is allowed to go through him.

He is not quite as good when everything is not going through him. He is not quite as good for Portugal because they don't keep giving him the ball regardless of how much he messes up with it. He has it very easy with us. He doesn't have it as easy with Portugal, and it shows.
 
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the key passes was as many as anyone else in the Portugal side, apart from Jota and Ronaldo no other Portugal players have had a shot on goal, the highest number of tackles anyone in the Portugal side had was 2
 
Adisa said:
I know this will go down like a lead balloon. He's a top player but his use of the ball is very poor. If he isn't scoring a a brilliant goal or making a killer pass, he can almost be a liability. This assessment isn't based on just this match but also his time here. I remember Sporting fans saying it before he arrived. I think he's sometimes detrimental to our play.
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This isn’t anything we don’t really know, is it? He’s very much a player whose G/A masks poor performances. Typically he’s better than worse, but he will very rarely have a great game where he didn’t score or assist, where his overall game has been great, because his game just is just too volatile.
 
charlenefan said:
let's get him sold then eh lads, he's obviously shit eh
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Once again, context doesnt interest you. No one says get him sold, either you try to make it work by adding a 3rd piece that fits. Or you let Pogba go and find a better replacement.
 
Played poorly but Germany destroyed them collectively today and the biggest problem was Germany's dominance on the flanks and nobody tracking back post runners.
 
AjaxCunian said:
Once again, context doesnt interest you. No one says get him sold, either you try to make it work by adding a 3rd piece that fits. Or you let Pogba go and find a better replacement.
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nah you're just talking complete and utter shit, him being our best player is a huge problem, we need a better player than him. Feck off with that load of bollocks
 
charlenefan said:
nah you're just talking complete and utter shit, him being our best player is a huge problem, we need a better player than him. Feck off with that load of bollocks
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That's not what I said, you look like a child who has trouble reading.
 
Why is everyone so defensive? He’s a United player so obviously we will focus more on him than the other Portugal players. You can say that he is our best and most important player while at the same time saying that he’s been crap for Portugal today. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
 
bosnian_red said:
Played poorly but Germany destroyed them collectively today and the biggest problem was Germany's dominance on the flanks and nobody tracking back post runners.
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Very true bit harsh to judge him on today since his team was outclassed. However I do think most criticisms are considering things over a longer period.
 
Adisa said:
I know this will go down like a lead balloon. He's a top player but his use of the ball is very poor. If he isn't scoring a a brilliant goal or making a killer pass, he can almost be a liability. This assessment isn't based on just this match but also his time here. I remember Sporting fans saying it before he arrived. I think he's sometimes detrimental to our play.
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Its one of the reasons he's far less effective in the biggest games especially when they are tight with teams denying him space. With space he's absolutely world class but at international competition level and CL level the space he requires isn't available. No real surprise he's yet to excel in either.
 
He's incredibly overrated because of his stats. The quality of his game is shocking tbh. Frequent poor performances covered by stats.

Pogba is twice the player really. I wouldn't mind selling this guy to make room for Pogba in more advanced positions.
 
He was poor but so was everyone else surrounding him. It's not like he alone had a bad game. He is someone who likes to have the ball so if the game just passes around him he will look naturally poor. Even the commentator said in the first half that Portugal midfielders are missing a trick by not passing him more. If anyone watched the game he was making himself available in good positions. I still feel he is a top player but if you are going to use him as just another player then he will play like just another player.
 
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