Yeh. It's confusing why people use "oh he isn't LB anyway. He should be a CB" when he's at worst of what a good CB should be. Which is fecking good at defending.
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He's putting in his usual terrible performance at LB, both their goal and the disallowed one came from his side.
A bad decision by Mourinho to drop Blind today and this position has to get sorted in the summer.
A bad decision by Mourinho to drop Blind today and this position has to get sorted in the summer.
The handling of the fullback position has been a fecking joke the last 5 years
We've had Smalling, Jones, Blind, Buttner, Shaw, Young, Valencia, Rojo, CBJ, Blackett, Donald Love, McNair, Rafael, Fabio, Darmian, Bailly, Evra, Varela, Evans on either side through 5 managers.
We've had Smalling, Jones, Blind, Buttner, Shaw, Young, Valencia, Rojo, CBJ, Blackett, Donald Love, McNair, Rafael, Fabio, Darmian, Bailly, Evra, Varela, Evans on either side through 5 managers.
I miss Shaw even more after watching that first half 
Yeah. Like being beaten one vs one easily several times isn't also a bad thing at CB. I know one player playing at CB who would never be forgiven for that.
He's not a left back and his positioning today has been terrible.
Let gone be gone, mate. To be fair, Torres was a world class striker at that time.
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Shocking half....
Great play setting up our second goal though . . .
Better at centre back.
If you were to have 2 threads and 2 ratings for Rojo the CB and Rojo the LB they would be stark opposites
Have to say that his dedication towards providing a penalty for Southampton is really impressive.
He did well against rondon
My god! Get him off now! He is shocking.
Please never play LB again!!
Trash.
I can't believe how bad he was today and we still won this 
He should never ever play LB again.
He should never ever play LB again.
Ridiculous decision to move him back to LB after impressing so well at CB.
He's too easy to dribble and his decision-making is questionable to say the least. We need to buy a leftback this summer, unless Shaw decides to finally step up.
I'm not upset with Rojo because I know he sucks at LB. Playing with Pogba and Herrera in the holding roles to start was suicidal. We were much more solid when Carrick came in, though we still allowed too much penetration with runners picking the ball up and driving at our CBs.
He's an abomination at left back, should never play there.
He is an awful LB.
Absolutely fecking dreadful at left back as we all knew he would be.
The pass into Lingard for the 2nd goal was nice but other than that he was a complete liability.
The pass into Lingard for the 2nd goal was nice but other than that he was a complete liability.
He's had one or two decent games at LB for us but overall he's awful there and was dreadful today, he's a CB or nothing IMO.
He is a poor lb but I can see why jose didn't want to start blind as the pace and tempo would have been too much for him.
We desperately need a new lb in the summer because the manager doesn't trust any of the current options and justifiably so.
We desperately need a new lb in the summer because the manager doesn't trust any of the current options and justifiably so.
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Should only play CB.
Dont understand why Mourinho played him over Blind. The end result proves the point.
Incredible the difference between him at CB and him at LB. You could expect his positioning etc to be a bit iffy but he literally turns to shit.
He was shambles today. Just when I was starting to forget his last season performances!
Deserved to start as he has been or most consistent decent this season
Was our worst player IMO. Directly at fault for the 1st goal which led to Southampton gaining huge momentum going into the break.
He should never play at LB.
He should never play at LB.
this, we need to address this, the sooner the better, Shaw alone there would do us a lot of good even out of form
I really hope Jose learned a lesson here.
That explains a lot.
Why are so many people surprised he was shit as LB? We have seen this show 10 times now at least. He doesn't know how to play left-back, he tucks inside the box leaving all the space on the wing, he cannot really help Martial offensively and his crossing is more like hoofing.
Starting with 2 midfielders was the wrong decision, with hindsight, but I can see why Mou did it and commend him for fixing it at half-time. But I will never understand why he persists with Rojo at LB and the fact he didn't even change it could easily have cost us the Cup.
Starting with 2 midfielders was the wrong decision, with hindsight, but I can see why Mou did it and commend him for fixing it at half-time. But I will never understand why he persists with Rojo at LB and the fact he didn't even change it could easily have cost us the Cup.
Maybe Marcos Rojo is a CB and Marquis Rojo is the LB who won a competition to play for us?
It isnt a surprise he played like this because he started the season like this at the same position. Defending for the two positions is of course different.
I want to say I hope we never see it again, but we probably will, and it will probably be a Europa League tie which is important and we will all be annoyed about it
It isnt a surprise he played like this because he started the season like this at the same position. Defending for the two positions is of course different.
I want to say I hope we never see it again, but we probably will, and it will probably be a Europa League tie which is important and we will all be annoyed about it
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