OrcaFat
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I don’t know about best player but it doesn’t say much anyway. Sitting on the DM is not a complex task requiring any skill but if it’s the job he was given (surely it was) then he, at least, carried it out. But, as you mention, he wasn’t clever enough to adapt to the game situation.McT for the first twenty minutes was Scotland's best player last night, sitting on Rice whenever the England back line had the ball, essentially nullifying the build up from the back.
However, Rice got wise to this and started drifting across the pitch and McT was then dragged out of position and so stopped doing the man marking job, from that point on Scotland were in trouble, and so it proved.
McT had a great first 20 minutes or so, average after that, but was still better than the rest of the Scotland midfield last night.
He’s not a terrible player. He’s an international. The criticism he gets is in the context of being a Manchester United player. The bar is higher than managing to mark a DM for 20 mins.