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Mata has a lot of qualities, but he's pointless for anything defensive or if a game was stretched & you needed someone to carry the ball with pace. I think he's a cracking player, who's shown a lot of quality, but his physical limitations are obvious. Same as Lingard, Rashford, Zlatan... you're slow, small, weak etc - unless you're Pogba, in which case you're never going to lose out. |
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Seems the 'first out the door' crew feel a bit daft and will jump on any chance. Look he just subbed him! Yes, he also started him despite having a wealth of other options too |
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It's why you won't often in a big game - or even tricky away games like Everton, West Ham - see Mata and Martial start. Usually it'll be one or the other. Mourinho will always, in England, have that degree of caution when it comes to carrying defensively suspect players. |
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what mourinho has actually said is probably a better place to start though, and what he's actually said is that manchester united play differently to chelsea, more technically and creatively, more focus on trying to win with style rather than just getting results, making mata a perfect fit for us moreso than for chelsea... it's an interesting point you make about greizman taking his place, but isn't that just moving the goalposts to make the same argument? greizman and mata seems a decent prospect together to me. throw in mhiki and pogba and if jose could get the balance right off the other side as well we could be peaking in some kind of cruyffian footballing nirvana sometime not long from now |
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If you want, by all means. This United side is fairly typical Mourinho. Even at Blackburn we were focused on transitional opportunities. |
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Mata is a lot of things but he isn't an athlete, he looks like to has to work really hard just to keep up the fitness he has. Whether we are chasing the game or sitting on a lead hes usually the first change, as we are looking for more pace in attack or for defensive cover. He always looks knackered tbf so fresh legs for him always looks a decent option after an hour or so. |
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seriously though, there were people queuing up to sack mata the minute jose was appointed and the back peddling is pretty funny. you saying that maybe he did fully intend to sack him but has changed his mind is exactly that. it's also pretty much what murphy now says. fwiw i'm far from mata's biggest fan any more than i was berbatov's. but quality is quality and these are the players I pay to go and see - especially when the team isn't exactly packed with the stuff in certain other positions. |
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