I couldn't agree more on Bentancur, he's a Rolls Royce of a player and I think he's still under rated in the media. Genuinely think he was the most important player of Contes reign as he made the 2 man midfield work even when when we were outnumbered. Even started adding goals which was never his forte before. We went off a cliff after his injury.
I remember a commentator at the start of last season (so a good 8 or 9 months after we signed Bentancur) having a sly dig at him saying he’s just a workmanlike midfielder or something similarly disparaging to that and Jenas who was co-commentating had to pull him up on it and say he’s much more than that, watch harder! Was very awkward.
He done well and got better as the game went on, Rashford had him for the first 30 minutes though.
I know you were at the match so you missed the commentary but there was a funny moment sort of midway through the first half when the co commentator was saying something along the lines of "Rashford has Van De Ven right where he wants him" and "He's making him go wide where he doesn't want to be" I chortled.
I disagree. We are used to our defenders needing to be goal side of fast attackers otherwise they'll never catch a fast attacker. That isn't the case with VDV, he knows his own speed and he's aggressive he was allowing Rashford to run with the ball before taking it off him. Sometimes he will misjudge the flow of play but honestly was Rashford ever clear through 1 on 1 with the keeper? The only one was through ball early on but that was a combination of VDV and Romero.
The time he went round the left wide of their player was just like Jan
