Another one who played well but is getting slagged off by all and sundry. There's many a pro in his shoes would just sit games out until his ribs have completely healed, but he comes out and plays and is the best out there in the first half but gets slaughtered. I don't get it and I don't know what people expect of him. In the first half he could reasonably have expected to be credited with:
An assist-the little dink to Sterling was a sublime little nudge, requiring vision, skill and touch. Had Sterling buried it, that'd been one in the "assist" column. Of course he didn't, and when Man U cleared and scored 35 seconds later people slagged Lallana as he hadn't quite managed to sprint the whole length of the pitch to cover.
A goal: Had Raheem squared the second chance he'd have had a tap-in.
Had either or both of these things happened, people would be saying he's a genius.
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