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1 minute ago, MrExcalibur100 said:

I was arguing with some ignorant people on twitter that Pogba is NOT a box to box midfielder. Defending and defensive awareness is not his game. Just amazing how ignorant some people are even discussing well known players. 

I think it comes down to how you define box to box but you are absolutely correct. Defensively he is not that good. 

If you want to get the best out of pogba he need to play in 3 man midfield and let him bomb forward without thinking too much about defence

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5 minutes ago, MrExcalibur100 said:

I was arguing with some ignorant people on twitter that Pogba is NOT a box to box midfielder. Defending and defensive awareness is not his game. Just amazing how ignorant some people are even discussing well known players. 

I was arguing the same thing with a utd fan on another forum that said that he is the definition of of a box to box player. Told him that he's not defensively solid enough to be one.

As communicate said, it really depends how you define b2b, for me it means someone that contributes to both sides of game.

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10 minutes ago, MrExcalibur100 said:

I was arguing with some ignorant people on twitter that Pogba is NOT a box to box midfielder. Defending and defensive awareness is not his game. Just amazing how ignorant some people are even discussing well known players. 

He's absolutely a B2B midfielder. He's just not a holder. Put him in a 433 like De Bruyne today & he'd thrive.

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4 minutes ago, Gilvorak said:

He's absolutely a B2B midfielder. He's just not a holder. Put him in a 433 like De Bruyne today & he'd thrive.

Pogba lacks defensive awareness. A player who is lacking in this department is not a box to box midfielder by definition. Pogba is a central midfielder. If you want to consider him a box to box midfielder, then the term loses its meaning and every CM should be considered "box to box". 

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We've gotta win these "easy" ones against the likes of Swansea to keep pace with City. There are so many great sides this season that title challengers can't afford to drop points against teams that they're far superior to.

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Just now, Pizy said:

We've gotta win these "easy" ones against the likes of Swansea to keep pace with City. There are so many great sides this season that title challengers can't afford to drop points against teams that they're far superior to.

It is early but this city teams looks really dangerous.

Fernandinho looks brilliant, KDB was fantastic last season, under Guardiola he is even better.

Even Otamendi looks good

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Just now, communicate said:

It is early but this city teams looks really dangerous.

Fernandinho looks brilliant, KDB was fantastic last season, under Guardiola he is even better.

Even Otamendi looks good

Yep. Just can't imagine them dropping many points against the smaller teams. They'll utterly dominate those sides.

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2 minutes ago, Styles said:

Guardiola is such a better coach it's not even close.

The impact he has had in such a short space of time is clear to see and City will only get better.

Other than buying players what has Mourinho actually done?

He did great job, but United as big club as it is, has alot of deadwood in first 11 still. 

I will wait until city plays big boys in CL, then we will see.

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1 minute ago, BlueLyon said:

He did great job, but United as big club as it is, has alot of deadwood in first 11 still. 

I will wait until city plays big boys in CL, then we will see.

Like who? Mourinho wanted to keep several of those players like Fellaini etc.

It's clear as hell that one guy actually has ideas and coaches the shit out of his teams and the other guy doesn't.

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5 minutes ago, BlueLyon said:

He did great job, but United as big club as it is, has alot of deadwood in first 11 still. 

I will wait until city plays big boys in CL, then we will see.

I agree that he has done a great job but saying he has deadwood is overstatement. He has the best squad in the league imo.

 

 

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