Agreed. Which makes the Paulino MotM selection even stranger.
Was there an online vote that Woolwich fans flocked to or what?
I think its perception. If Bentaleb played like Paulinho today we would have given Bentaleb 5/10 and said he was average at best.
However as Paulinho has been so shit for him to play sort of ok meant it felt like something special had just happened. He was still making crap tackles, taking 4 seconds to control the ball and passing backwards all the time but he made few out and out errors so it seemed far better.
It's kind of like the shit player on your Sunday football team making very few errors, everyone gives him a big hug at the end and kind words.