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Paul pogba and Bruno Fernandes believed to be able to play together okay at Manchester United, even a deadly combination like Kevin De Bruyne-David Silva. That is if Ole Gunnar Solskjaer slightly modifies his team’s play scheme.
This opinion was expressed by Gary Neville, a former Red Devils mainstay player who is now a pundit and commentator, in analyzing Solskjaer’s dilemma in maximizing both simultaneously.
In Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes, Man United has two excellent midfielders. But Solskjaer doesn’t seem to have found the right scheme so that the two players can be truly optimal.
When Pogba played, he was usually used alongside players with a defensive character like Nemanja Matic in midfield. While Bruno Fernandes pushed further forward as an attacking midfielder.
There are many opinions that such patterns are not suitable for playing styles Paul pogba, which has one advantage in terms of going forward. Yet if Pogba leaves his position in the central sector, the defense line Manchester United even more have a gap.
That’s why Gary Neville suggested that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, his former teammate at Man United, be able to imitate the way Pep Guardiola has optimized the figures of Kevin De Bruyne and David Silva in Man City’s starting line-up in the past.
“You have a World Cup winner, dominant in Europe with Juventus and Manchester United’s most expensive signing but cannot make it into the team (as a starter) at the moment,” Neville told Sky Sports. Metro.
“I don’t understand why he hasn’t tried, or maybe he has already done it in training but doesn’t like it, to put Pogba and Fernandes in front like De Bruyne and Silva,” he said.
In the formation that Gary Neville is referring to, Paul Pogba will be pushed forward to take up an offensive position like Bruno Fernandes, leaving one other player as a defensive midfielder purely to focus on defense.
“Kevin De Bruyne and David Silva were not disciplined midfielders before Guardiola came to Manchester City. He made them both like that. So that’s the only system I think can accommodate both of them together,” said Neville.
“Currently he plays Matic more and more Pogba side by side with Fernandes in front of. Pogba cannot play there because in that position, players must be disciplined (participate in guarding the zone and defending). But if he (Pogba) is pushed forward (next to Fernandes), there is greater freedom to press forward, “he said.
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