Fans on social media have expressed mixed feelings over Paul Pogba's captaincy snub in Manchester United's midweek encounter with Rochdale. In Wednesday's Carabao Cup test with the League One side, the Red Devils bestowed the honor on academy graduate Axel Tuanzebe who is only making his seventh competitive senior start.
Pogba handed the Old Trafford outfit a massive injury boost with his return having missed the last three matches with an ankle injury. In his absence, Solskjaer's side secured narrow wins over Leicester and Astana before slumping to a disappointing 2-0 defeat against West Ham on Sunday.
Time for #MUFC team news...
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) September 25, 2019
Ole makes nine changes from the weekend
Axel Tuanzebe skippers the side
Brandon Williams is among our subs for the first time#CarabaoCup
Despite ranking among the most experienced squad members, the 26-year-old Frenchman was not rewarded with the armband in his return with first-team captains David De Gea and Ashley Young being amiss in the starting lineup. Instead, Solskjaer made a big call by naming Tuanzebe as the skipper for the day albeit the center-back spending the whole of last season on loan at Aston Villa.
Below are a few fan reactions:
Pogba and Greenwood playing with Tuanzebe as the captain?
— (@iseekwisdm) September 25, 2019
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Tuanzebe captain over pogba ole is a terrorist
— Dk(@young7_l) September 25, 2019
People complained when axel was giving captain over pogba this first half shows you why
— Troymiller (@Troymiller1919) September 25, 2019
Pogba should be my Captain Tonight, not tanzuebe or whatever his name is. Pogba should be shown some respects, a world cup winner, with a lot of motivating attributes deserves to captain my team tonight.
— Tifejnr (@lilblessingjnr) September 25, 2019
It's the fact, you hate to see this though
#MUFC #Pogba pic.twitter.com/8VdQNbmJ4U
Captain over world cup winner Pogba? What has he done to deserve it. Are we just handing the captaincy out to any academy player? This is basically ole playing the nice guy again because he lacks any tactics or backbone
— Sam (@Rajasam_1) September 25, 2019
Tuanzebe is the captain while pogba Dey field. Wth is this
— 7 inches is enough (@Datboy_ag) September 25, 2019
Lol, Tuanzebe captain? Thought Pogba should be having the band.
— Bee (@Bee_mufc) September 25, 2019