Last night the front three were given plenty of chances to do something and failed - Remember the three on two with Salah on the ball and it was intercepted, also a number of other times there was a chance to put in a quality delivery and no one could do it
The constant finger pointing at the guys in the middle are allowing the front three a free pass when they are poor , the immediate excuse is they are poor because they donāt get the ball from the middle- sorry but nonsense , they have had plenty of the ball in threatening areas but have on a number of times gone for the wrong option
But the fingers will continue to be pointed at the midfield and the front three given a get out clause
The Man Utd teams from 1996-2010, the thing that made them so lethal and so successful was the quality from all over the pitch especially the mid -field not only where thier strikers feared be also the mid-field because they had goal scorer in all of those areas who chipped in with regular gaols and created them, something that Man City have now...
What do we have...? there work horses (Gini,Henderson,Milner) that create little quality chance, the key work is "Quality"
The so called chance you said we made the other night, hand on heart; how many of them would you call quality...?
You have one on here who claims it is the wing back that are suppose to create the chance, but what happens when those wing backs are pinned back and can not get up field to create those chances..??
Also if you have a midfield that can open up teams and score goal instead of just a from three then defenses are unable to identify just who to mark...
At one time in the match PSG had four men around Salah. Now Salah is no Messi, and even the great man himself would struggle if that was the case every time he got the ball...
There is a reason why so many people feel like this about the Henderson,Milner, Gini combination in midfield. It simple does not work well...
I have never been a fan of Henderson, but if I am honest, I feel that it was Milner who played the worst out of the two and said so on the match tread. But the facts remain both are simple not good enough for the starting 11 bar injuries
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