It was simple, and Rice had simple forward passes like that on all first half, but he (not the only one mind, Walker, Stones equally as guilty) just constantly preferred to turn back and find a easy pass
Rice was infuriating to watch all game last night, the amount of times Foden was in space out wide with his arm up or he made a run when Rice was on the ball and never played it happened time and time again. Rice was the one first half who he had space to do something on the ball, but every time he just turned around and played a backwards/sidewards pass. As soon as Phillips came on, he found Rashford's run that Foden was making all first half and the 3rd goal came from it