Goodbye to a legend

comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 9 minutes ago
I would expect Crouch to have more assists than Scholes.

One was a striker the other a midfileder.

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Seems weird logic considering 7 of the top 10 all time Premier League assisters are midfielders

https://talksport.com/football/488461/james-milner-david-beckham-most-premier-league-assists/

Without looking at the list I imagine they were wide players.

The beauty of Scholes was that he was the one who set Beckham and Giiggs up for their assists.

United scored very few goals from a central position.

Nah 5 of the 7 are CMs. Scholes was great at finding players in space but for whatever reason barely played that killer through pass that unlocks defences

Crouch is a legend?

So on that list I am struggling to find someone who played a less advanced role than Scholes. Fabregas maybe.

Utd fans act like Scholes wasn't a box-to-box midfielder throughout the 90s and early 00s before Mourinho came in and changed the game to a 3 man midfield.

comment by Michael Edwards FC {Proud owner of the 5 000 000th comment} (U2720)
posted 56 minutes ago
Utd fans act like Scholes wasn't a box-to-box midfielder throughout the 90s and early 00s before Mourinho came in and changed the game to a 3 man midfield.
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He was a brilliant yet very limited player in many ways. Perfect in the right system, which Fergie created

yeah scholes was never a deep lying player till very late. One of the reasons for this was he couldn't tackle for toffee. Keane was always the deeper of the two and even he played box to box early on

Exactly...he was the attacking midfielder for Utd until he changed his game later on.

Or even until Rooney came in.

Keane was always the deeper of the two and even he played box to box early on

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Both of them played box to box in reality. They had the intelligence for one to sit when the other bombed forwards. But Scholes was the more naturally inclined forward player. Our two wingers were much further forwards than Scholes though.

When we attacked it was pretty much four up front at times. It was why the great Dane was always busy when teams countered.