Appreciate the loudest noise was binned off the site, but those "we only win matches when Mings plays" and endless goals against analysis posts seem to have to dried up.
Yep. He was playing badly and deserved much of his criticism, but an in-form Pau is a player who changes the shape of the whole game. He's so good at the offside line, and that squeezing of the play opens so many more opportunities, not least for himself to break the lines with dribbling and passing
Thinking back, we had a situation where we played with a different back four up until February due to injuries, Pau probably wasn’t quite up to speed, but needs must and he had to play at times.
Which was the real problem with our defence last season, and a fair few on here pointed it out, I don't think we had a fully fit back 4 and DM all play for much more than a game at a time until about March last season, and that was almost exactly the point where our performances turned around. Asensio and Rashford clearly helped going forward but I think us finally being able to start putting some consistency in our defence was a huge benefit.
