How was Pogba a threat? All I saw was a player that has no idea where to position himself and who to press.
Is it me or everyone is overrating Lingard's movement?
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Don't you agree his best games have been as a CAM, particularly with Herrera and Matic behind him? Why cant we do that now with Fred & McT? Will it honestly be any worse than the boring garbage we've been seeing lately ?
What you are describing is not a CAM but an advanced CM role in a 3-man midfield. I've never seen Pogba play well as a pure number 10, it's not his role and he loses a lot of what makes him an exceptional player, for example his long passing.
As Doomslayer said, Pogba's best games have come in a three man midfield. He's the most attacking of the three, but I don't know if I'd class it as a CAM and definitely not a #10. He still constantly comes deep and tries to control from that area, but he just has that bit of extra freedom to charge forward either with or without the ball and force things to happen when the time is right. I could be wrong but I think Herrera's average position in a lot of those games was higher up the pitch than Pogba.
When he's actually played as a #10 he's generally been poor. He ends up playing with his back to goal and drifts out of the game, and it's quite obvious it's not natural for him.
Aye fair enough. I should have known my first thought of him cutting across a journo's question about his team to criticise Lingard would be wide of the mark. As I said he's spot on about the player we've seen recently.
Hes awful, movement, on the ball and off it.
He's in his prime years as a player right now too.
He's in his prime years as a player right now too.
Whatever you want to call the role, CAM, #10 or most advanced of midfield 3 that’s where he should be. Definitely shouldn’t be in a midfield 2 as a CDM anymore, complete waste of time.
This a million times. Who do these plebs who watch games on TV think they are to make comments? It's as if they're watching another entirely different sport!
You are the 1% (that's not elitist at all). Maybe the 0.0012% even. You play a very important role in educating us ignorant armchair supporters.
Thanks for existing. We're not worthy.
PS. Everyone knows that the 98% of the time Jesse's off the ball is when the magic really happens. Oh, if we were not to be trapped in this Plato's Cave, we'd be flabbergasted!
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fecking TV, making people believe Messi is better than Lingard!
I honestly can't think of any reason why will anyone still defend this lad. Looks kinda ridiculous to me.
Practically our ENTIRE team is made up of squad players. Can we afford another squad player in Lingard? Really curious to know about these 'moments of excellent quality on the ball'. He runs around a lot and hides behind players. Not sure if that can be called having a good workrate.
Totally agreed on the juvenile personality and punchable face part though.
It’s safe to say no one on Caf is overrating anything having to do with Lingard. He’s not having a good season, but he’s not the worst player in the league, as some would have you believe. He’s frequently played out of position, which isn’t helping him. His work rate and effort are there every game, but he’s not a natural number 9 or 10.
Worst player in the team. Absolute shite and a coward.
It's because he has no other qualities except he can run.
To be fair, Lingard created movement chance today and fecked up again 