What’s this got to do with Pogba?
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This year anyway, Pogba performed better with United than France.
Why did Kante stayed on the bench?
Surely it would of been easier for Pogba
Surely it would of been easier for Pogba
He was absolutely brilliant at the WC. Up until their exit, he was the player of the tournament for me.
Always amazing that It's Fred and Scott's fault. I thought their role is to put his in a position to not lose, yet the Pogs and Bruno's are to win? It seems Pogs is still dining out on the game against City with the odd cameo.......
I'm a Pogs fan but the lad gets a free pass far too often on here. He gets praised for the things that he should be doing. It's not all his fault but his ceiling is higher so I expect more.
You must be new to this forum. On the whole, you would think he was a Leeds United or Liverpool player based on a lot of what you read on the caf.
He is a good player, he should be but the best players do it when it matters. I like Pogs a lot, but in the big moment, he's not delivered enough like a Keane, Scholes, Lampard or Gerrard.
Pogba gets a free pass? I haven't seen that in years. Dude gets killed on here when we lose.
This is how I see it. Pogba is clearly technique wise the supreme midfielder. However in my mind a player needs more at the top level. Or for consistent performances in my opinion. If he could improve tactically, ie with positioning and maybe decision making I think he would he show his true level more.
Jesus
He's delivered in bigger moments than any of those players, if by delivering you mean scoring a goal
Pogba plays for France ...
How he performs for France and how they use him and set up around him is often used as a comparison with how we do. I think the comparison is redundant because they don't have a great answer to the problem
This basically.
Weve made better use of Pogba and are a better team
Bizarre logic. If any of our players play for their international team and have a worldie I’m buzzing. If they play poorly I don’t care it doesn’t affect us. If one of our player wins the World Cup or is the stand out player of the tournament well it’s just weird for a United fan to say they don’t care.
Once it comes to internationals my loyalty is pretty fluid. We have players from all over. Unless their team is playing great football and being really entertaining i dont care much (probably in the same way you dont care if it doesn't go so well?). I just dont.
Its not really the point i was trying to make though. As far as getting the best out of pogba i dont think france have any answers for us.
Pulling strings very nicely tonight
France won the World Cup with Pogba being one of the star performers
Their best performer imo.
Was their best player at the euros too but Mbappe missed every chance made.
He was certainly up there in terms of carrying out his role in the team game to game.
He was phenomenal at the Euros.
And got knocked out of the euros by switzerland a couple months ago.
Its not about pogba, its about the team.
Was he the only France player to play all three games?
Mixed bag tonight. Some brilliant stuff, some wasteful loss of possession. Thought it looked like a penalty when he touched Pukki but guess the VAR room checked it and cleared it.
It did look a penalty, maybe they deemed it not enough contact to justify Pukki going down.
Lloris, Griezmann, Kimpembe, as well. Maybe someone more that I can’t remember.
It looked like contact but also looked as he over dramatised a bit …
Mixed bag
Where Pogba was phenomenal
Was he playing in two man midfield there?
The heat map says he was the deepest midfielder if I am not mistaken?
The heat map says he was the deepest midfielder if I am not mistaken?
Yeah he was deeper than Rabiot most of the match. Not the typical France setup, but he did really well. Finland weren’t exactly brave in their pressing though.
Just like some EPL sides are not?
Pressing our midfield has become quite the popular tactic though.
It has not. We just need to pass quicker and better from the back.
I think we are seeing teams push up higher against us for that very reason.
And, we need to take advantage of it.
Absolutely
They played with wingbacks. France never just stick him in a two leaving the team disjointed and vulnerable.
Fair point. Not one I’m terribly optimistic about whether Pogba is playing deep or not though. There might be a solution sat on the bench, but at this point I reckon we’ll never know.
I think the fanfare around Ronaldo will do this lad's performances a world of good. From 2 to 4 active Pogba threads on the Caf first page to none, that takes some doing. I have a feeling they're going to combine to devastating effect offensively. Add in Bruno, Mason, Sancho, Rashford, Edinson and oh my word!
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