{"id":177677,"date":"2021-09-12T10:10:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T10:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/paul-pogba-s-central-role-hints-at-how-cristiano-ronaldo-could-bring-positive-chaos-to-manchester-united"},"modified":"2021-09-12T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T10:10:46","slug":"paul-pogba-s-central-role-hints-at-how-cristiano-ronaldo-could-bring-positive-chaos-to-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/paul-pogba-s-central-role-hints-at-how-cristiano-ronaldo-could-bring-positive-chaos-to-manchester-united","title":{"rendered":"Paul Pogba&#8217;s central role hints at how Cristiano Ronaldo could bring positive chaos to Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Cristiano Ronaldo was giving a pre-match speech to the Manchester United squad on Friday night, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was making his final preparations for the game. One of those decisions could end up much more complicated than a predictable win over Newcastle United.Solskjaer went against his usual instinct, and put Paul Pogba in the central two.The United manager would usually prefer not to play the French star there because he thinks he&#8217;s far more effective in a more attacking role, and has wondered whether he actually has the discipline for it.It is why Solskjaer so often goes for the widely debated combination of Scott McTominay and Fred.They were absent on Saturday, which forced the Norwegian&#8217;s hand, and perhaps raises questions over Pogba&#8217;s position in this squad &#8211; in more than one sense.Solskjaer had little choice but to play the 28-year-old, and it was aided by the fact Newcastle are going to be one of the more supine sides that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Cristiano Ronaldo was giving a pre-match speech to the Manchester United squad on Friday night, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was making his final preparations for the game. One of those<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135],"tags":[139,138,58],"class_list":["post-177677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}