Lenny

He's sprinting to the ball, and his trailing arm is pulled. It's going to put him off balance. Regardless of any form of theatrics, Enciso tried to cheat and was rightfully penalised for it.

For what reason are people suggesting it wasn't a penalty? Enciso actively tried to stop Murphy illegitimately, by pulling his arm, and was successful in doing so. Seems a stone wall penalty, to me.

The absolute confidence on Eze's face that preceded such a shit penalty is hilarious

He had an undertone of bias towards them all game. Didn't feel like acknowledged much in the way of positives for us and seemed to go out of his was to draw praise for "utd" whenever possible.

Notice I said "prefer", yet you've come in with a sledgehammer to crack a nut. To say Colo at his best, i.e. the season he was in the premier league team of the season, playing for a vastly less organised team, has nothing at all on Schar, is frankly extreme bollocks. Either way, regardless of attribute comparison, I preferred watching Colo play to watching Schar play (whom I also enjoy watching).

I preferred peak Colo, but for longevity, Schar's pretty much out in front.

There is, mind you, a significant difference between a competent, professional manager determining that a player isn't suitable for their strategy for whatever reason, than an narcissist's ego being the primary reason.

Even without the low hanging fruit, as it were, it was mostly just pretty rubbish.

I feel like what Nunez just did should be red card worthy. Completely cynical and ultimately cheating. Should be discouraged.

You can't say that for certain at all. I thought he was trying to push the player away with no intent or eyes on a specific body part. To say he would try and punch a player is massively OTT.

It's only done us a favour, let's face it

That got me too

Interesting lineup. At face value I worry about the centre of the pitch with only 2 there. Maybe Trippier and Hall invert dynamically to support and make a three with Gordon and Murphy dropping back?

Subjectively poor is fair and I would agree with your example. I think I would just challenge people's use of the word poor as an outright assessment, by highlighting some of the improvements I think he's shown, even on last year's brilliant season.

I think his end product hasn't been as good, but his all round play I feel has improved. He crafts space for himself so frequently to move into vacant space and start attacks. He often makes a lot of angled and clever passes, often on the offensive edge of the middle third that I feel is under appreciated. I'm just personally not seeing performances from him that fit the description of poor. Worse than last season is a reasonable assessment but he was superb last season.