A TV commentator incredibly tore into Jesse Lingard for his performance against Arsenal on New Year's Day, saying Ole Gunnar Solskjaer should have "sent him home".
The Manchester United midfielder, 27, was hauled off after 58 minutes in the midst of another disappointing showing, replaced by Andreas Pereira.
The Red Devils slipped to a 2-0 defeat at the Emirates as their 2020 opened in frustrating style against a rejuvenated Gunners squad.
During the Arsenal game, Lingard created just one chance, had one shot - which was blocked - with a quarter of his passes going astray.
On top of that, Lingard won just 14 per cent of his duels as he was easily out-muscled by the Gunners' midfield.
And the beIN Sports commentator was quick to single him out, saying: "If I was the manager, I would send Jesse Lingard home at half-time.
"He doesn't create any chances for Manchester United, he's just taking up space on the pitch.
zuuabcemns
2498
Lingard loves football, but he cannot play. Like some of us, he can be a good fan in the stands.
Arjenrobben11
1398
When we play with Lingard, we start the match with 10 men. It's simple. When we play with Shaw and Lingard, we are down to 9 men against 11
Mendesi
547
I don’t blame Lingard I blame Ole. He is a blind coach. I have told him several times that anytime he start Martial and Lingard United is going to lose the game. The reason is that martial needs a clinical distributor so he can score goals but Lingard is ineffective in all areas. Lingard is not creative, has lost pace and infact all qualities in football
Hikceklpry
509
I try to enjoy the wins and losses of our beloved United but some of the players come across as if they shouldn’t or can’t be bothered to turn up. Ole is not helping himself by swapping the winning team all the time. Playing matic, shaw and lingard was a gamble that was wrong, but then if they got away with it, we would have been singing praises of our players. At the moment I am not certain we will finish in the top four the way we are not consistent, we won Man City Tottenham and then lose to a shitty team. The only thing that can save our season is if Woodward gets the check book out and invest in two or three new additions to the team if not I can’t see us doing anything. We have 18 games left every game has been the next game will be better than this. On pogba if he wants to go release him you released lukaku without replacing him. More so the team have been winning with his contribution anyways so good luck to him, he’s a good player who could reach the high that is expected of him, Pogba is no messi or Ronald so if he wants to go by all means make it happen United.
Arjenrobben11
491
I think Ole is a scam artist, who is just disguising his lack of tactics. He knows he is not equipped to handle such big club with personalities like Pogba, so he is just wading as much as he can, till he is sacked. He knows Molde will wecome him back happily
JohnMc2018
381
Poor guy I feel sorry for him. Ole has no system or tactics he’s just saying go out and have fun. Lingard needs to be told what to do like most of the players in that team. If Woodward bought when United needed players Lingard wouldn’t be in the first team. He isn’t a creative midfielder but he can play good, he plays good under Southgate because he has a clear system and way of playing, Ole and Manchester United are deflecting all the blame on the players so they can act as a smoke screen so fans can’t see the real problems. It’s literally a reflection of society that we live in and it’s poor from United.
Sokabiknrt
356
As a United supporter I really think that the people above should start thinking where is Manu going. Which direction? Forward or backward. I believe bthat Ole is not the right manager for a team of this Calibre. We look like a mid table team. and with no vision nor direction. Bring Pochettino ,big time change ..
mzeereal
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For God sake can someone explain the reason why ole always prefer lingard..I can't figure it out.. Playing for a whole year without scoring and you keep wasting our time by using lingard always. even Southgate can't use lingard as a ball boy for england talk less of putting lingard in a game.. Ole will later ruin man united with his believes