Some of the Marchisio loving in here is a joke. How you can possibly rate him over Melo based on yesterdays performance is beyond me.
He completed passes? Yeah lateral passes that did shit all going forward. He held his shape well? That means nothing if you don't move well of the ball and work hard. He did not work hard yesterday he hasn't for a while and that shows in his performances.
Melo however, has been working his arse off and for how often he is winning and passing the ball his efficiency is not all that bad. The guy deserves some credit finally.
He is getting credit and has gotten quite a bit actually, but he also deserves criticsm from his mistakes, no? Or is Melo the only one that get's a free pass because he works his ass off.
You know what, DC an Grygera also work their asses off so let's keep them playing meanwhile let's give Sissoko another shot because of how well he did his first season here because he too works his ass off.
Heaven forbid a player is "quiet" during the first few games of a new season. Marchisio has never been loud but has quietly done his job and done it well. No reason for the Marchisio criticsm if Melo can't be given any. Just because Marchisio hasn't any outstanding performances are no reason to subject him to criticsm when he hasn't really made that many bad performances. "Bad" performances are necessarily in the same category as "off" performances.