CM
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Yesterday was the first league game McTominay has started since we got humped by City, and even that was out of necessity. Between that game and the Arsenal game yesterday, McTominay has played 117 minutes in the league. I think that demonstrates pretty clearly Ten Hag doesn't trust him much, and therefore giving those minutes to either of Iqbal or Mainoo wouldn't be throwing them in at the deep end.Pre season can be very deceiving. How many times did we see Pereira turn into Pirlo during preseason games
I think both players mentioned will come good, but if Garmacho is being slowly introduced, then there's no way ten Hag will throw either of those two into the deep end. And rightly so.
McTominay isn't a bad player. He had a poor game yesterday though. I'll give you that
For comparison, Garnacho has played 236 minutes in the league since the City game. 5 of those he didn't even feature in at all because he hadn't broken through yet.