He didn't play in Barkley's position at all when he came on, did he? He played as the deepest of the midfielders as he always does. Hence you see Barry in the box nearly grabbing a winner and Cleverley all over the place using his dynamism. So Cleverley was given the closest thing to Barkley's position (could be a good option there) and Kone also played much closer to Lukaku.
I don't think you can criticise taking on the shot too much. If not then, when? It's a frequent criticism that we don't shoot enough. Yeah I'd have preferred if he kept the move going by going wide to Coleman but it sat up nicely and it shows that he's confident.
I especially love the part where you insinuate that he faked getting a career-threatening ACL injury, cysts in the knee, a broken bone and an abdominal surgery in the past two years. How do you arrange going in for fake surgeries several times? The surgeons are in on it, yeah?
At the end of the day Besic is not being picked ahead of Gibson despite the fact that Gibson is out of contract at the end of the season. This must tell you something surely. Martinez sees them training and whether it is a short-term thing (1 month or 6 months) or with hope of Gibson finally being past the injury nightmares, I'd suggest you readjust your wishful-thinking cull lists unless you just want to be continually disappointed.
This is actually the longest spell of consecutive games Gibson has ever been available for since he joined, although obviously the true test of his fitness will come if/when he starts games.
