How you can criticize Pogba for that Palace goal boggles the mind. We were zonally marking in that clip and Darmian was the one that lost his zone by getting skinned, this meant that Carrick had to cover for him by preventing the player from going into the box which meant Pogba was outnumbered in the middle. Blind did a decent job but was undone by a good flick so he lost his zone but it was understandable. The goal scorer went into the space that Blind left behind. Im not really sure if Pogba should have been tracking the goal scorer but if he did lose his zone then it was after a series of mistakes from players previously.
However, i do agree that Pogba can over complicate things. He often chooses the flashy option rather than the simple (and usually better) option. You probably know this from his earlier years; but Pogba is used to physically getting himself out of trouble. So when he looks for the flashy option and dithers on the ball he puts pressure on himself and then tries to muscle his way out of the situation. Surprisingly he actually does get himself out of trouble quite often, so its not a huge flaw. But it is a flaw in his game.
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