Former Liverpool and Scotland midfielder, Graeme Souness, had some choice words for Man United’s Jesse Lingard and Tottenham’s Dele Alli after the game. “I want to emphasise the midfield. You can’t win the big trophies, you can’t dominate football matches, you can’t put yourself in a position where you are not giving the ball away unless you’ve got good players in midfield who can keep the ball.”
I come back to Lingard and Dele Alli – two players who want to get on the end of things after there has been clever play by somebody else. They don’t want to get involved in keeping the ball and dominating possession. They want to be involved in scoring the goals and getting on the end of things. The Man United and Tottenham midfielders both scored once in Russia this summer.