This is what happens when you act like a goon on social media. You needlessly put pressure on to perform.Lingard getting hammered by his own fans.
3 games in and the wheels have fallen off already.
Lingard was 113th of midfielders (not overall, just midfielders) in the PL for chances created last season. He only produced goals or assists in December (4+2) and did nothing, no goals or assists, in any other calendar month last season.
Norwegian TV did a pre-match analysis on Lingard and the panel was in unison that he simply is not good enough for where they want to be. And then he had an absolute stinker yesterday to boot.
That he's in a Manchester United starting XI is a damning indictment of both the rest of the squad and the club as a whole.
He has been, but didn't start the Nations League semi v Holland when the midfield three was Rice, Delph and Barkley.He’s an England started too isn’t he?
This is what happens when you act like a goon on social media. You needlessly put pressure on to perform.
United hammered Palace first half yesterday but they did start to rum out of ideas pretty fast. I feel this kind of result may happen more than they expect.
Looking at that front line up yesterday..
Rashford - Martial - James
It's pretty decent but its very much a mixture of potential, players who haven't yet lived up to potential and players who are not yet big game players. Which is fine when you are focusing on youth and developing a new era. But there's a huge element of risk that it doesn't develop.
Therefore you do need some good back up options to fall back on should these three go through poor streaks. One lool at their bench yesterday and it doesn't make good reading...
Mata (passed his best and square peg)
Perrerya (potential that hasn't developed)
Greenwood (17 year old who shouldn't be expected to bail his team out and quite frankly it could destroy his development)
Then the midfield options are severley limiter.
How do they expect to be challenging when they can't mix things up?
Every team will just copy Palace's blueprint now and pick them off on the counter, knowing that they don't have a lot of tools to bring on should they be finding it hard to score.
OGS may be able to set his team up well but he'll only succeed when he knows how to adapt to the flow of the game.
Isn't he on some huge salary and contract ?Lingard was 113th of midfielders (not overall, just midfielders) in the PL for chances created last season. He only produced goals or assists in December (4+2) and did nothing, no goals or assists, in any other calendar month last season.
Norwegian TV did a pre-match analysis on Lingard and the panel was in unison that he simply is not good enough for where they want to be. And then he had an absolute stinker yesterday to boot.
That he's in a Manchester United starting XI is a damning indictment of both the rest of the squad and the club as a whole.
He qualifies I believe by being able to run around a lot.He’s an England started too isn’t he?
He qualifies I believe by playing for Manchester United.
Fixed your post.
There’s no way he’s be anywhere near the England team if he didn’t play for united. He’s bang average.
Isn't he on some huge salary and contract ?
Lingard was 113th of midfielders (not overall, just midfielders) in the PL for chances created last season. He only produced goals or assists in December (4+2) and did nothing, no goals or assists, in any other calendar month last season.
Norwegian TV did a pre-match analysis on Lingard and the panel was in unison that he simply is not good enough for where they want to be. And then he had an absolute stinker yesterday to boot.
That he's in a Manchester United starting XI is a damning indictment of both the rest of the squad and the club as a whole.
I fear that OGS time at the wheel is running up. A draw against Soton and a loss against Palace are two very poor results
I fear that OGS time at the wheel is running up. A draw against Soton and a loss against Palace are two very poor results
There's no chance he's still their manager next season. The only question is whether they have the balls to sack a "club legend" mid-way through the season or whether they let him finish the season before coming to some "mutual agreement" that he should step down in order to save face.
For what it's worth the Utd fans I know are already starting to get pretty sick of him so I don't think the whole fan favorite/club legend schtick has too much life left in it either and the amount of good will and benefit of the doubt he'll get is drying up rather quickly.