The Athletic’s Manchester United correspondent Laurie Whitwell has provided a damning assessment on Victor Lindelof following the Red Devils’ 1-1 draw against Everton.
The Sweden international was drafted back into the starting XI by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after Eric Bailly had started the last two games – both of which were wins against Chelsea and Club Brugge.
The former Benfica centre-back didn’t do anything drastically wrong, with the only goal conceded by United coming after David de Gea kicked the ball at the onrushing Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
However, Whitwell wasn’t left convinced by Lindelof’s display.
What did he say?
After a fan said: “Lindelof was very poor again today. He is the weakest CB we have at the club. Always shoved off the ball and weak under a high ball too”, Whitwell responded in his post-match Q&A session.
The journalist wrote: “Can’t fault that assessment David. Lindelof just makes me nervous when running the channels one on one. Thought he would get a second booking when up against Calvert-Lewin late on but it was too soft in the end.”
Not a great day for Lindelof
While, as aforesaid, the Swede didn’t do anything completely calamitous, he still didn’t have the best day out on Merseyside.
The 25-year-old had two unsuccessful touches and also received a yellow card from Chris Kavanagh.
Lindelof was also put to shame by Harry Maguire in the clearances department, as the Englishman registered 15 compared to his meagre tally of just two.
United’s No.2 also committed two fouls and didn’t make a block against Carlo Ancelotti’s men.
He also saw none of his five attempted long balls find a teammate, while also failing to get involved from an attacking sense with no dribbles forward and no key passes to his name.
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After Bailly had contributed to back-to-back clean sheets against Chelsea and Club Brugge, Lindelof had to step up and justify his manager’s decision to make such a call – however, he didn’t do much to set Goodison Park alight, hence Whitwell’s damning comments on him.
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