Victor Lindelof was a solid 6/10, Roy Keane will be recovering from his emotional rollercoaster and Paul Pogba’s Manchester United end nears.
To the Victor go the spoils
Player ratings are a harmlessly fun part of the match reaction fabric that will endure long after the robots take over and that is fine. After all, they always offer some weird takes from people tasked with watching and marking at least 22 different players.
Joshua Jones was assigned that duty by The Sun and his Manchester United grades are suitably scathing at times – 2/10 for Bruno Fernandes – but also weirdly kind. Like this on Victor Lindelof’s performance in a defence that shipped four goals:
‘Was just about the only man in pale blue willing to put a foot in and go through with a heavy challenge.
‘Yes, he gave a few fouls away but at least he was showing signs of passion.’
Fouls: one.
Tackles: zero.
Rating: 6/10.
Definitely sounds like he was their best starter.
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War (What is it good for?)
David Maddock writes about ‘the faraway stare of the shellshocked trenchman’ of Manchester United, who were stunned by ‘the noise from the big guns of the Kop’.
He adds that ‘they had been tortured – and that is the correct word – by the sound of small explosions at every turn, all around them’.
‘To continue the war analogy which it surely must have felt like, they were outflanked by a superior general with modern methods.’
After a brief break in which the Daily Mirror writer decided not to write about a football game as if it was a deadly conflict at a time when events around the world make that ill-advised at the very least, Maddock picks up the baton in his penultimate paragraph:
‘Diaz was substituted on 70 minutes. It was to rest him for further battles ahead, but it felt as though Jurgen Klopp had taken pity on his old friend. They had taken enough torture, they could stand no more…
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