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2018-19 Performances

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5.8 Season Average Rating
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47
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16
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I like pogba, articulate kid. Think there is something bigger going on behind the scenes
 
Atrocious performance. Thinks he’s far better than he is. Our captain and leader, played like a Sunday league footballer.

If any club is stupid enough to pay Neymar money for him, we should bite their hands off.
 
We might still be able to get our money back for him before European window shuts. What a waste of space he is.
 
el3mel said:
He was in shite in 3 men first half as much as the second half in 2.

Honestly can't believe this is still used as an excuse anymore.

He's just so fecking inconsistent and frustrating. He had tried crazy balls with no aim and played some short passes that a professional won't do.

In one game he acts as a team player, moves the ball well, play simply and help everyone. In another game it's time for Pog shite show in the midfield.
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He was bad in a 3, all the more reason you can't expect him to cover more ground in a two when all what the forward players does is to keep loosing the ball and not stretching the play running in behind to recive a pass. When you see other managers getting the best out of their players and playing them on their strengths , going back to 4231 when it don't work last season was exactly what would put his shoulders down again. A 3412 would have been much more positive from us letting Pogba do what he is good at after being 2 goals down.
 
I doubt he wants to play here. He is trying to be professional but...
 
Has anyone captained the start of the season for a club only to be sold?
 
Thunderhead said:
I like pogba, articulate kid. Think there is something bigger going on behind the scenes
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I’m beginning to really dislike him. Plays for himself and doesn’t care about the club and his team mates.

He’s talented, no doubt, but that will only get him so far. Mctominay would have put in a better performance today.
 
Patrick08 said:
He was bad in a 3, all the more reason you can't expect him to cover more ground in a two when all what the forward players does is to keep loosing the ball and not stretching the play running in behind to recive a pass. When you see other managers getting the best out of their players and playing them on their strengths , going back to 4231 when it don't work last season was exactly what would put his shoulders down again. A 3412 would have been much more positive from us letting Pogba do what he is good at after being 2 goals down.
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We were 3-1 down.

We needed more bodies in the attack and less defensive midfielder. Sacrificing one of Periera and Fred was very reasonable. The crap thing is that we looked chaotic going forward after that but the change itself was reasonable. Why go with 3 defenders at the back when we're losing ? Illogical.

If the guy can't play in anything except 3 men midfield and one less midfielder makes him even worse, he can't be classified as a top class player then.
 
He was awful but there is too much reliance on him.

He is expected to make everything happen and when the team has no width and very little movement he becomes desperate and makes poor decisions.

We could sell him and replace him with any midfielder and still have similar problems with our current tactics.
 
LennonNL said:
Exactly. Did you not watch the World Cup @Patrick08? Pogba was great in a two when needed, because he had a quality defensive midfielder next to him helps but it’s not all down to the formation or the talent. I just don’t think it’s clicking for Pogba under Mourinho and the latter needs to go.
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I did watch the world cup, but you cant compare France to United team. Pogba was disciplined but not exactly giving eye catching performances on the ball and controlling the plays. France had a better efficient forwards who would give him an option to pass by stretching the play and more efficient in front of goal, here Lukaku keeps dropping deep to recive the ball, the Wide players who are actually more strikers than wingers staying so deep without support of fullbacks to overlap and keeps loosing the ball and everytime without having a shot on goal.Pogba struggles to win the ball again and again and find spread passes as he is not a playmaker like Scholes who would find answers from so deep.
 
Roboc7 said:
He was awful but there is too much reliance on him.

He is expected to make everything happen and when the team has no width and very little movement he becomes desperate and makes poor decisions.

We could sell him and replace him with any midfielder and still have similar problems with our current tactics.
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You can’t blame tactics for his performance today, he was dreadful! The number of times he gave the ball away was embarrassing, and he was bullied by their midfield.

Today all on him, needs a kick up the backside.
 
Poor today, I like him as a player but he needs to get hold of games like this today.
 
The fanboys are already out in force I see. Another dismal PP performance which is due to the manager, tactics and the inept players around him. This one is on him 100%, it costs nothing to make an effort and at least try. United is in big trouble as long as this guy is in the team.
 
He's either a world beater or utter crap against the bottom half sides. You can't just show up and do a few fancy flicks against these sides if you want to come away with wins. He needs to show the opposition more respect or these #Pogformances won't change.
 
el3mel said:
We were 3-1 down.

We needed more bodies in the attack and less defensive midfielder. Sacrificing one of Periera and Fred was very reasonable. The crap thing is that we looked chaotic going forward after that but the change itself was reasonable. Why go with 3 defenders at the back when we're losing ? Illogical.

If the guy can't play in anything except 3 men midfield and one less midfielder makes him even worse, he can't be classified as a top class player then.
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That's a very Flawed Logic these days. It doesnt help one bit but had an exactly opposite effect.

We needed width and support and running in behind in attack which would improve attacking quality and not just more bodies without having a clue how to build up something with that.
 
Patrick08 said:
That's a very Flawed Logic these days. It doesnt help one bit but had an exactly opposite effect.

We needed width and support in attack which would improve attacking quality and not just more bodies without having a clue how to build up something with that.
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Actually we don't have any kind of players that provide width. Switching to 3-4-3 with Young and Shaw as yet your main attacking options weren't going to improve anything either. Would have looked the same imo. Honestly the only way this team can play with the current players is without a width at all. Play the most narrow formation like the diamond or something and congest the midfield as much as usual. We don't have fullbacks or wingers who can play any formation dependent on width, 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3 or 3-4-3, they're not going to work.
 
He looked like he has not gotten any sleep in the past 5 days.
 
Awful, but a pretty standard Pogba performance of the last two years for us. The last thing this guy needs is a free role to 'express' himself, have the team built around him, etc. There are very few mercurial talents that it's worth indulging to that extent, Fergie only really allowed Cantona and Ronaldo that level of freedom. Pogba is not one of those talents, the World Cup showed that he's at his best when he's under strict instructions in a specific, disciplined role, and his 'flair' is subordinated to the needs of the team. In that situation, he can be a valuable cog in a machine, two or three-man midfield, it doesn't matter. Indulging the fantasy that he's some kind of once-in-a-generation attacking talent will only encourage his own delusion and affect his willingness to be disciplined for the team.
 
A completely different player for France and United. Mourinho should phone Deschamps and ask for tips.
 
el3mel said:
Actually we don't have any kind of players that provide width. Switching to 3-4-3 with Young and Shaw as yet your main attacking options weren't going to improve anything either. Would have looked the same imo. Honestly the only way this team can play with the current players is without a width at all. Play the most narrow formation like the diamond or something and congest the midfield as much as usual. We don't have fullbacks or wingers who can play any formation dependent on width, 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3 or 3-4-3, they're not going to work.
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We don't have the intent, rather than the players.
 
Patrick08 said:
We don't have the intent, rather than the players.
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We don't have the mentality, and Pogba is one of the player that has to be accused when it comes to this too. Mourinho also has to be blamed. Pretty much the whole team tbh.
 
M Bison said:
You can’t blame tactics for his performance today, he was dreadful! The number of times he gave the ball away was embarrassing, and he was bullied by their midfield.

Today all on him, needs a kick up the backside.
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He was dreadful but the lack of movement and any attacking structure is an embarrassment. No inidividual can escape blame for that performance but the underlying issue is the tactics, a good or bad performance by Pogba doesn’t change that.
 
I'm not entirely sure what's he's meant to do. There is no structure to our football. No passing options.

He's basically in a position where he receives the ball at every given turn and expected to do something brilliant with it. So he tries over-ambitious passes that inevitably don't come off and is seen to play like a prat. The onus on him to create out of thin air just isn't sustainable.

We could sign Messi in this current team, play him up top, constantly get him to drop deep and collect the ball, and he would play like a fecking idiot. He'd be torn to pieces for giving it away. Christ. Our second half tactics were essentially boot it up to Fellaini and hope for the best. Manchester United, this is.

Pogba doesn't half do some shit things, don't get me wrong, but surely some of you can see the wider picture? He tries, it doesn't come. He doesn't try, then he takes responsibility for passing the buck just like everybody else.

He's in a difficult position in this football team and I can't see it getting any better, sadly.
 
The amount of times a pass would be on but he seemed to want to either beat his man or just hold him off for a few more seconds today was infuriating. He'd invariably lose the ball, chase back and concede a foul. Slowed down the game so much as it allowed them to feck around for another minute.
 
People who think Pogba being different for United and France is down to himself need to have a word with themeselves. There's night and day between our squad and that France side. One Mbappe is worth more than all our attackers barring Lukaku combined, both in terms of actual value and output on the pitch. That's even before coming to the rest of the attack, midfield and defence.

Put Pogba in that Barca side and he'll look world class week in week out.
 
To me Pogba is a lot like our CB's, needs someone in there to be the boss, he might have Batman status but I think he was best as Pirlo's Robin.
 
el3mel said:
We don't have the mentality, and Pogba is one of the player that has to be accused when it comes to this too. Mourinho also has to be blamed. Pretty much the whole team tbh.
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There are differences of opinion between the players and manager of course the mentality suffers as a result in modern game dominated by agents and Money.
 
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