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Discuss.
Great footballer. If he could finish, he would be world class, but even despite his dreadful shooting his overall performance for England in this tournament has been very good. Finishing is the first (maybe only) thing people that don't really understand football (read: casual World Cup fans) will notice with attack minded players, they won't appreciate his link up play, his excellent dribbling, the space he creates for his team mates with his game breaking speed. He creates attacks and gets into positions that the players on England's bench simply don't, dragging defenders with him along the way. Lingard is underappreciated in this context too, he was the stand out performer against Tunisia, but fans focused on him missing a few good chances instead of the disruption he was causing their defence with intelligent, well-timed runs.
The press have always had it in for Sterling too, so a lot of fans will focus on the negatives of his performance before other players. He has quite easily outperformed Dele Alli at this tournament, yet has received twice the criticism.
I saw similar criticism leveled at Giroud, people don't appreciate what these players bring to their team and will instead focus on their gaffes in front of goal. Their managers aren't mental or clueless, both sides are better with these players in the line up.
I find myself as a United fan rooting for him simply because he's always received more flak than he deserves. An easy scapegoat, for some reason derided as a mercenary for moving to City and making a lot of money when plenty of players have done the same by joining rich clubs. The Sun making him the posterboy of spoilt Premier League footballers despite him leading a pretty normal life for a Premier League player. With that and a lot of the fans I encounter seemingly willing him to fail, I can't help but do the opposite.
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