Nice legs my ass . <| sep |> Ok here we go 1 . Vidal For Juve , he played next to Pogba and Marchisio often in front of both . He had a similar role Coquelin has , disrupt attacks early . He also wasn ' t the sides creative player . 2 . Pogba Again , in Juve he played in a midfield of three and has played on the left of the midfield . Again had cover of 5 players and Marchisio and Vidal next to him . In the french national team , he is a part of a threeman midfield with Matuidi and Kant behind him . Now at Man Utd , he is always paired either with Fellaini or in a three man midfield with H e r e r r a F e llainiCarrickSchneiderlin . Aginst us he was an attacking midfielder . 3 . Modri I can agree to some extent . But again when he was the ' defensive midfielder ' he was paired with Kroos or Isco who were the creative players he merely distributed the ball around , quite similar to Cazorla . Now he plays in a midfield three often Casemiro being the defensive cover in midfield . 4 . Marchisio . He wasn ' t the creative player at all . He was the workhorse on the right side of a threeman midfield , again with 3 or 5 players behind him . 5 . Lampard , he was always an attacking midfielder . Chelsea had Essien , he wasn ' t doing everything by himself , at all . 6 . Gerrard . He played on the right side of a diamond for 90 % of his career . Last two seasons with Liverpool he played either as an attacking midfielder or as a defensive mid , who was between both center backs , who did the defensive work for him , he merely covered krtelLovrenAgger when they went to intercept the ball . You can see that most of those players played in a threeman midfield . More often than not , they were not the holding player . And in three cases they also played in front of three centre backs . I ' m sure Santi would ' ve been just fine in front of three center backs and next to two work horse players . But we just don ' t play like that .