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04th Mar 2017

Manchester United fans in no doubt about who is to blame for yet more dropped points

A game to forget

Patrick McCarry

Not for the first time this season, a visiting goalkeeper to Old Trafford had an inspired performance.

Manchester United drew their seventh home game of the Premier League season as they failed to defeat 10-man Bournemouth. Having being pegged back to 1-1, United played the entire second half with an extra man but could not make the advantage count.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic missed a penalty with 20 minutes to go and neither Juan Mata, Marcus Rashford, Wayne Rooney or Anthony Martial could get that crucial second goal.

However, one United player copped the most amount of flak for an abject performance and for his role in three late, wasted chances. Step forward [for criticism] Paul Pogba.

First, he tried to bury the ball from six yards out and scuffed it wide

https://twitter.com/YnwaLfc37/status/838033383338958852

Then, he bottled a shooting chance and his under-hit pass to Marouane Fellaini was cleared

https://twitter.com/fantastlsco/status/838030359338037249

https://twitter.com/TC_Static/status/838033334378745857

Finally, he couldn’t get the ball out of his feet inside the six-yard box and fell over

https://twitter.com/azzyface1990/status/838033050638430208

He’ll have better days than this.

Today was one to forget. Perhaps he should back-pocket the dab celebration for a while too.