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13th March 2018
10:23pm GMT

They were knocked out of the Champions League by a mediocre Sevilla team on Wednesday night and they never even rose a gallop in front of their home crowd.
Alexis Sanchez is a victim of this team. He's a great player and we all know that but he's being limited by a restrictive system that doesn't encourage players to gain possession and when an attacker becomes a stranger to the ball, their performances can only go one way.
That's worse than being slaughtered. That's worse than being slated.
Their defending, led by the hapless Eric Bailly was abject and their attackers never created anything of substance or of meaning.
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Rio Ferdinand, speaking on BT Sport after this embarrassing defeat summed it up best. He knows Sanchez is struggling, but he pities him. He pities him for the situation he finds himself in.
"Sanchez, for one, he just looks a shadow of the player he was. When he was at Arsenal, he was the player everyone looked to for inspiration. He just looks like a stranger now.https://twitter.com/btsportfootball/status/973680143091691520
"When you go to a new team and play, you don't lose all your talent. That's what it just seems like at the moment and in some ways I just feel sorry for him. It's not going for him and it's not going for other players as well. That's the way it's going for them all, the whole lot of them, they were shocking," said the former United centre half.Graeme Souness, speaking on TV3, feels the same way about Paul Pogba.
"Pogba, I actually feel sorry for the boy. His confidence must be shot. And then you see Sanchez, he's not got going at all."Imagine that, Souness, feeling sorry for Paul Pogba. That tells it all.
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