The narrative around Lingard’s performances compared to the actual performances have been pretty disconnected this season. He’s had a bad season cause he’s not played enough, not the performances. Tonight is typical, did well, but got pulled after an hour.

Same thing happened v Norwich in the cup. He’s consistently the best of the 2nd strong but gets subbed early or is denied any minutes alongside the first XI.

If United had great depth i& #39;d understand it, but he started 9 league games all year. Mata started 8, Pereira 18 + James 26 - so it& #39;s not like he was kept out by quality. Seemed to take the brunt of blame for defeats but no residual credit for wins v City, Spurs or Chelsea.