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The marks of a quality central midfielder are showing for the ball, retaining possession and maintaining the tempo when on the ball and then being able to switch into a defensive shield ahead of your back four when you don't have the ball, preferably with the capacity to win the ball back. Nowadays, Scholes can still do the first part of that better than most but the second part? I would advocate a horse's for courses approach. Alas, one of the horses is actually a mule and the other is a thoroughbred who's a little long in the tooth, mind. |
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I'm saying it wasn't some "random mistake", he was put in against a side that play all but a midfield 6 and asked to do a primary defensive midfield role which he is hopelessly ill-equipped to do. If Neville was fit, I'd have had O'Shea and Carrick in centre mid, dig in and look for that goal on the counter-attack. Doubt we'd have shipped two goals. We'd still have Scholes available for the game at OT where we'll likely have the bulk of possession and his intelligent midfield prompting will be of use. |
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Fletcher is an alternative... |
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As per Ruud departing the scene, not a sweeping commentary on the player's own performance level but rather how the overall team picture is affected. |
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I don't know if Carricks game would be at the standard it is without playing with Scholes on a regular basis imho. I do agree that Carrick is becoming a very very important player, can boss the midfield for years to come. |
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