Wow. A wide range of comments from this thread, its hard to determine how he actually was if you didnt watch the game. (which I had to miss unfortunately) and its tough to tell on highlights.
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Decent. Nothing groundbreaking, kept it simple mostly and played well considering his experience and age. Looks like a decent squad player, not like someone you would expect to start games for us regularly now and in the coming years. But who knows how he will develop, definitely not a bad option
Played well I thought. Had some good forward passes, was comfortable in posession, made some decent runs forward. Didn't do any worse than Herrera when he came on and I'm one of Herrera's biggest fans
Impressed tonight, good strength and intelligence for a 20 year old.
Very good tonight. He's a good option to have
McTominay covered 12.18km - the most distance of any player on the pitch. 
I was at the game. He was anonymous for most of it. In the 1st half all the attacks were down his side, there may be more to the explanation of that but to me he seemed to be bypassed.
He was also either positionally unaware or intentionally hiding from the ball and not showing for it. There was even a passage of play in the 2nd half where no one would pass to him.
He came alive towards the very end where he showed strength and some good turns. Overall poor, but he's only 20 playing one of the positions most demanding of experience.
*edit* for a debut outing he showed some good talent toward the end of the game. So there's greenshoots.
He was also either positionally unaware or intentionally hiding from the ball and not showing for it. There was even a passage of play in the 2nd half where no one would pass to him.
He came alive towards the very end where he showed strength and some good turns. Overall poor, but he's only 20 playing one of the positions most demanding of experience.
*edit* for a debut outing he showed some good talent toward the end of the game. So there's greenshoots.
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Didn't look anything special. It always amazes me that we always tend to be biased towards players that come through our academy.
Hope he continues to get chances and improves to be a quality player. Right now, he doesn't seem to be one of the most promising 21 year olds who is touted to be a special midfield talent.
91% pass completion, lots of simple passes but also several good long passes that found United players running forwards.
Whoscored rated his performance 7.2, which was equal 4th best of United's players. Personally, I had him joint 2nd with 3 other players. The overall Redcafe rating currently has him 5th.
He didn't attempt to dominate the game. He performed his role sensibly, especially given that we had the lead from the 25th minute. If you want to describe him as being anonymous, that's reasonable.
With the exception of his few mins towards the end of the Arsenal match last season, every time Scott has played, we have had the lead fairly early on (the latest being scoring just before half-time against Benfica) and as a consequence, he hasn't been required to take the game to the opposition. We would probably learn far more about what he can, and can't do, if he was on the pitch when we desperately needed a goal.
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Hes so far a solid 6/10 player, his average rating confirms that.
Thats not bad for his age. Hopefully will push on, but the fact that hes come into the first team and been consistent and comfortable when called upon is actually impressive. Means hes likely very mentally sound. Hopefully will get better with age, but already a fairly solid option in the middle.
Thats not bad for his age. Hopefully will push on, but the fact that hes come into the first team and been consistent and comfortable when called upon is actually impressive. Means hes likely very mentally sound. Hopefully will get better with age, but already a fairly solid option in the middle.
Bournemouth's counter-attacks largely came from Mata drifting in-field, one of Lukaku, Martial, Lingard or Mata losing the ball, followed by Bournemouth's fullbacks breaking fast so that they had more players attacking than we are accustomed to facing at Old Trafford. Smalling, Jones, Matic and McTominay generally did their jobs correctly, protecting the central zone and restricting Bournemouth to shots that De Gea could save without too much trouble. Valencia and Shaw seemed to be caught between trying to assist the attack and keeping our defence secure.
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I thought the lad did alright. Showed some power and a decent passing range. Yeah he was quiet for periods but he's still green behind the gills. Hopefully he gets some more playing time to aid his development
This.
It's so fecking annoying when people pull out that 'he didn't control the midfield'. It's like they watch Juventus, Barca, Bayern, City, Madrid play and realise all those teams do it, so whenever our midfield doesn't they are sh|t. Guess what, they all play orthodox formations that have at least 3 proper midfielders in the middle and tactics that require pressing, attacking and defending as a team. All of which Utd never really apply or have been coached to do.
Thought he looked very assured tonight. He grew into the game really well which is good to see from a young player - those who end up not cutting it in the Premier League tend to fade as the game progresses.
If he can stick around the first team, which he almost certainly will do, he is going to pick up so much from the likes of Pogba and Carrick but, in particular, Matic. Based on the, granted limited, I've seen of him, he's probably most similar to Matic in terms of build and attributes.
If he can stick around the first team, which he almost certainly will do, he is going to pick up so much from the likes of Pogba and Carrick but, in particular, Matic. Based on the, granted limited, I've seen of him, he's probably most similar to Matic in terms of build and attributes.
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Considering youre both saying similar things ill take that. Its good to hear (well read)
Considering youre both saying similar things ill take that. Its good to hear (well read)
Sounds like he was ok. I couldn't watch the game but highlights show Bournemouth running through space straight at our defence a few times. Whose fault was that?
Does this largely mean that he's on par to become the new Cleverly?
Edit: Didn't get to see the game so just trying to understand the direction he's headed..
He is pretty average if truth be told. You could put a few from the academy in the side and they would do pretty much the same job. As I posted earlier though, alot of our fans are now overating mediocrity as standards have slipped. We have too many 'functional' midfielders as it is. We need a bit of quality.
What is football to you? Some people or majority of the caf is hard to please. He did the simple things really, really well. He is getting games, and people tend to forget that sometimes to make a mark in the first team you have to build confidence by stages.
What happened behind the scenes between him and Mourinho we will never know. What he can do VS what he need to do for the top flight football match, we will never know.
From my point of view, I couldn't ask for more, let Lingard, Martial and Mata take the responsibility for the amazement, let Mctominay play without pressure.
Based on that performance, he is a proper young player who can perform in the highest football league match.
What happened behind the scenes between him and Mourinho we will never know. What he can do VS what he need to do for the top flight football match, we will never know.
From my point of view, I couldn't ask for more, let Lingard, Martial and Mata take the responsibility for the amazement, let Mctominay play without pressure.
Based on that performance, he is a proper young player who can perform in the highest football league match.
Agreed. Thought he looked ok and that was as good as it got, but he is very young and coming into a dysfunctional side when it comes to midfield play in general so it was an understandable level of performance.
Looks like he could be solid prem level though, his basic game looks very solid and he seems to have a cool head on his shoulders.
He had a good game, not sure why people keep on repeating "he is nothing special, or special talent", no one said he is. He is making most of the chances he is getting and keeping it simple. He doesn't hold on to the ball, releases quickly and surprisingly has a good pass and range.
To add to that, he is strong physically and covers lot of ground. He isn't going to be game changing midfielders but a decent squad player which means we don't have to spend 20-30 Million to sign one.
To add to that, he is strong physically and covers lot of ground. He isn't going to be game changing midfielders but a decent squad player which means we don't have to spend 20-30 Million to sign one.
Don't see why he can't develop into a Witsel or Nzonzi type of player in the future.
Kid was fine.
He does the simple things really well and kept things ticking over. Has a really good tackle on him and one almost led to a goal.
You can see he's not there yet but the fact that Jose kept him for the full 90 even when we were only a goal up says a lot about the faith the manager has in him..He has put up a better perfomance than anything our reigning player of the year has recently and I hope he gets more chances.
I'd love to see him in a 3 men midfield.
He did well on the individual level. I'm not sure how much he brings to the team when we actually have the ball though. In saying that, I would be interested to see how he would go if played as the main defensive midfielder next to a more attacking player; see if he can give us the option to rest Matic sometimes.
No because
1) He don't hide when making a tackle.
2) He had good passing range long and short.
3) He can run with ball.
He is more like Carrick than Cleverly.
Before the match I said that McTominay should start in place of Herrera. Looks like Jose heard me. Performed well, better than how Herrera performed in his last few matches. Now he needs more game time. Won't be surprise if he starts again at the weekend against West Brom.
He needs to work on his positioning when we start our attacks from the middle. He was always in awkward position so that teammates could not pass to him.
Personally I liked what I saw from him last night.
The problems people seem to have with him is that he’s another midfielder who is more suited to playing next to Pogba rather than instead of him, it causes a lack of creativity in midfield and the opposition can press us much easier limiting the influence our midfield has on the game.
The problems people seem to have with him is that he’s another midfielder who is more suited to playing next to Pogba rather than instead of him, it causes a lack of creativity in midfield and the opposition can press us much easier limiting the influence our midfield has on the game.
Couldn't really tell much from his performance from the highlights, but from what I saw, they're midfielders were getting onto our defenders a bit too easily in the first half, so thats a bit of a concern... but on the other hand, he showed some great strength at times too.
Still don't think it'll work out for him here, but nice that a Academy player is getting minutes... though it does sort of make me wish Periera was knocking about.
Still don't think it'll work out for him here, but nice that a Academy player is getting minutes... though it does sort of make me wish Periera was knocking about.
Very impressive defensively and instinctive closing down and ball winning. I'd be chuffed for him if I was Jose as it was an excellent and mature performance. This lad is very talented and loves to battle. I think he can grow into a fine midfielder.
To be fair, both him and Andreas are very different midfielders.
They are, but he would almost certainly be getting a lot of these minutes that McTominay is getting.
We didn't control midfield at all which was a major problem last night. Weird thing was that Mou and Matic and Scott both holding, really odd tactics against such a side at home.
Not really, he's starting for Valencia on this wings and judging by the preseason he'd have started on the wings for us too.
Played very well. Worked his arse off and made a few lovely passes. I think we may have underestimated this guy.
Absolutely one of Jose's type player. He will play more for us. I see improvement in his performance game by game so bright future in my opinion.
Couldn’t find a decent stream but from what I saw he played well.
pretty good performance from the young lad, doesnt help the rest of the side were poor, but thought he was one of the better players on the night.
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