Those are half-truths, half-truths that are protective of Scholes and critical of Pogba. Which is totally reasonable but we should be open about that. Scholes was dropped for some of the biggest games for Butt because he offered better balance, he had his best season playing with two midfielders behind him picking up the bulk of the defensive work, and he spent most of his time alongside Keane being covered for, it wasn't a "you go forward then I go forward" relationship. He was a better midfielder when people accommodated his defensive weaknesses.
Of course, he did some defensive work, Roy Keane wasn't an island. That is evidently true of Pogba too. If you look at the stats on the previous page, he won the most "duels" of any player this tournament. He made 7 tackles, not on par with Kante's 10, but on par with Pavard. And he "won" 2 tackles from 7, compared to Kante's 2 from 10. Only Kante covered a greater distance than him for France, and he's 22nd in the tournament overall for distance covered, in the same ball park as the likes of Kroos, Koke, De Jong.
People see Kante as a one-man midfield, but Keane was often described as a one-man midfield too, and Scholes benefited from that a lot. A lot of the greatest offensive midfielders in history have had deficiencies that need to be accounted for to achieve perfect balance, or some acceptance of imbalance in the team because the good outweighs the bad. That hasn't prevented them from being called world class, and it hasn't prevented them from winning the biggest trophies. This idea of completeness is a mostly artificial construct. The idea that you can't find a notable deficiency in world class players is demonstrably false.
