venom2011
First Team Squad
- Messages
- 1,199
- Reaction score
- 698
He did nothing wrong. He's just not great in defensive transitions and he naturally gambles in dangerous areas because he's still getting to grips with the league's physicality. We struggled to have any control for a large part of the first half.Ronaldo and Rooney weren't playing for the best team at the time. They were behind both us and Arsenal.
Also, what is that circumstance when it would be valid to complain about Estevao being subbed off? Because I see this excuse every time. It's always we're suffering because he is doing something wrong, when the reality is that we would have been just as sh*t in that first half no matter who we had there. The whole team had a Lukaku touch and kept passing it to City players. Even if Estevao wasn't on the pitch in the second half, our performance would have been just as sh*t. This is the problem, when we're sh*t collectively, it's always Estevao that is subbed off.
It would be valid to complain when there aren't such glaring structural problems for a manager to address. It's not like say, if he made a few mistakes on the ball and we were struggling to create vs Wolves - in those cases the player can still recover and taking him off would be cowardly.