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2018-19 Performances

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5.1 Season Average Rating
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27
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2
Assists
5
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Reminded me of latter years Rooney to be honest. Lovely switches of play, still capable of moments of real quality but overall he was poor.
 
whatwha said:
We're not going to be able to move him on if/when he doesn't work out. He's got 4 years left on his contract. That's the problem with signing aging players on insane wages.
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This, we thought it was tough moving Rooney on. This will cost us circa 50m to rectify.
 
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He was poor tonight, although I think he (technically) got an assist for the first goal. There were some nice moments, but not enough. Obviously it’s the first game, but that did look worryingly similar to his form of last season.

Right now, playing Sanchez is like having another Mata on the pitch, albeit one who runs a lot harder. He again was drifting in too much and his pace in the opposition half is a worry now. He seems to have lost a bit from a couple of seasons ago and his natural game doesn’t seem to be flowing. We all know he’s always been a player who gives possession away a lot, but he would make up for it at Arsenal with goals and assists galore. We’ve got the former without the latter.

His luck could change and he’s still getting used to the place, but it’s not felt like a natural fit as of yet for him at Utd.
 
He was extremely poor last night.

I do wonder whether we are contractually obliged to play him on the left - he's been ineffective there for us more often than not. It's might be worth at least trying him on the right - it's not like Mourinho is desperate to play Mata there, after all. That would allow a Martial, Lukaku, Sanchez front three.
 
I think Sanchez is struggling in his new role at United because he is used to being the main man, creator when he was at the Emirates. A more restricted role.
Its starting to dawn on him that he isnt the main man now -- Pogba is and I think he is fighting that by trying to over-play things now. Thus the low percentage passes etc.
At least he isnt coming down deep to collect the ball like he was last season if the Leicester match is anything to go by.
 
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It was the most difficult excuse of a one off game that we can ever say about his performance. I believe in him. He looks good, more energetic, and happier and vibrant. Even though his final pass was slightly off early on, (and terribly off midway in), there were other aspects of his game where it does look how pre season break helped him. and i dont think he looks as bad as Rooney. jesus christ. Rooney couldn't trap a fecking ball 15 out of 20 times in high intense environment by his final 3(being generous) years.. Sanchez only was trying too hard to keep it simple at advanced areas, which probably will work once our team chemistry is in more advanced stage but its good that he doesn't want too much thoughts/time to make that simple pass in attacking areas when he has to be on the turn and run. Whether he is making a right pass, or just shortly hits it is not the same as whether he can still do it or not. Its one thing to say he isn't even doing (which he wasn't), another to say he isn't good at what he is doing. WE can deal with it if its the latter. its only real trouble if he doesn't do anything and doesn't want to move. He got fouled some fecking 10 times, and still ran his bollocks off all game, to almost create a fantastic assist out of nowhere for Lukaku to only fecking bottle it (i do have enough early season honeymoon period grace left for him, and he better pay me back kindly later on)

And people should take it easy with their analysis on Sanchez. its easy to be discomforted. but its also easy to look past it, and not be worried. United are not built to over rely on Sanchez for him to feck us up. So. lets take it easy. we can build him up to a point where he can show if he is really the biggest big game player that we thought he can be, and hopefully he can try to show that he is willing to try to be. and we can be appreciative of the effort, if its honest and sincere. as much as he costs us, it is fair to say, we aren't expecting him to single handedly carry us.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Fecking hell. The comments in here are ridiculously harsh! He did a lot of good things tonight, worked his bollox off and heavily involved throughout. Wasn’t a great performance but was perfectly fine.
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To be fair, he is supposed to be one of the best players in the league (I had him down as the best a couple of seasons ago) and, whilst I didn't watch any of our pre-season, he supposedly had a really good one so I did find that performance disappointing. I'm a huge fan so I'm not writing him off yet, but with the break he had and a promising pre-season, I was expecting a lot more.

Pogba's on form and, if we can get Alexis back to his best, it'll make for some good viewing as I think they could potentially link-up really well. I think those two, alongside Lukaku and Martial at their best could kill off most teams.
 
Should have had an assist. Worked hard, tried many things which increases his rate of misplaced passes. I don't know if he will ever back to his best but without even getting there, he can improve I think
 
sglowrider said:
I think Sanchez is struggling in his new role at United because he is used to being the main man, creator when he was at the Emirates. A more restricted role.
Its starting to dawn on him that he isnt the main man now -- Pogba is and I think he is fighting that by trying to over-play things now. Thus the low percentage passes etc.
At least he isnt coming down deep to collect the ball like he was last season if the Leicester match is anything to go by.
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I dont think struggling because he isnt a main man should affect him making simple passes
 
Pogue Mahone said:
He’s always gonna misplace a load of passes. Did the same at Arsenal. Weird that people are so horrified by this. So long as it’s in and around their box that’s fine. The price he pays for trying to make things happen. Not that it was a great performance, mind you. But certainly no worse than any other attacking player.
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Sanchez isn't held to the same standard as the other attackers, hence him being paid double/triple what they are. His bad passing was offset with his brilliant running/dribbling and tireless movement for position at Arsenal, which we've seen none of here. He's not losing the ball in and around the box; he's losing it in midfield and in his own half, and a better team than what we faced yesterday would punish us for that.

He's hardly being rounded on or being made the fall guy - he's supposed to be a much, much better player than we've seen since he got here, and the player he has been would never get anything close to what he is on because he's not performed like the player we thought we were getting.

I think the majority of people criticising him, myself included, welcomed him coming here, but thought he would be put on the right. That he has been put to the left, and been poor, makes things doubly contentious.

Perhaps you think players all start at zero with a clean slate going into a new campaign, but what a player has done previously for the club always curries favour and buys them time or tolerance. Sanchez is starting the season having to prove the 2018 he had from January to May was the outlier and that it's not actually his level.

Having said all the above, it is only one game and he may well turn around and have a fantastic season, but how many games of a similar standard as he had last night should he get on the left whilst we have talent that could be used there who could be getting developmental time where even the bad performances can be put down to learning experiences rather than a very probable issue with ageing and decline?
 
Pacificgi said:
I dont think struggling because he isnt a main man should affect him making simple passes
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He has always been that way. Trying the low percentage shots. That was one of the frustrations Gooners had with him, the other was the constant yelling at his team-mates.
 
Very poor, and for me the most worrying thing about last night.

He almost never goes past a player?! I expected him to be a decent dribbler who would serve as an outlet and create numerical advantage for us by going past players, but he very rarely manages to do that. Is it just lack of confidence, or has he lost a step of pace that means he’s not capable of it anymore?
 
I really hope that match wasn’t a sign of things to come. Sanchez looked like one of our better players pre season and it seemed that he was fresh and ready to go.
He has a four year contract on those wages taking him up to 33 years old.
I fear he could be a VERY expensive mistake and we are stuck with him, because no one else is going to buy him on those wages.
At the moment, it seems that Wenger is having the last laugh at United, so let’s hope he comes good in the next few games.
 
Some of the overreaction here boggles the mind, I thought he did alright and provided a constant threat . I love his attitude on the pitch and I am not really worried about him
 
I thought he was alright. Sloppy but had moments of good play.
 
I would just love it if we would at least try him on the right for a run of games. When we have Rashford and Martial for the left, it could potentially make such a massive difference to our season.

The stubbornness infuriates me.
 
I can’t stand him anymore. Never really liked him but I could appreciate his work rate. He’s surprisingly bad on the ball. No good close control. His passing is just a hit or miss, but mostly miss. His attitude towards his teammates is not right. It was more righteous when he was at Arsenal and carried them for a whole season, but he’s not shown anything at United to have that kind of attitude.

Either Mourinho is using him wrong by giving him to much freedom/responsibility to be a creator or he’s giving himself that role.
In my view he shouldn’t be a creator. If you’re gonna play him, play him high up the pitch, either as a striker or a wide forward. He’s a reasonable good finisher, so use him like that. Don’t make him a playmaker.
 
1st game of the season....but he played most preseason games and had a good break. One of ou best players in preseason too. There were moments last night but he was again too much of last seasons player. Lets not forget Sanchez is one of the best wide players in world footall, fans are right to expect much more from him
He does look like somebody just trying too hard and not really confident but I still think he can have a massive season for us, its one game after all. Also agree with what somebody said about trying him on the right some times both in games and from the start.
 
Started as he finished last season, pure shite.

The worst part about his transfer thus far is not his wages, but the fact that he replaced Martial and we risk (will) losing him for good.

I can't help but think Martial would've played way better on the left than any game Sanchez has played in.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Good stuff. Confirms my initial impressions. Criticism on here is well over the top. Glad I’m not losing my mind. Some of the rest of ye, on the other hand...
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Me too. Whats funny is the things people seem to want to criticise him for, are absolutely nothing new about his game. He was exactly the same at Arsenal but on here people just love to focus on what people can't do and not what they can. Since he came here, nearly every single significant moment in matches, he's had an influence. Big games, he's turned up. We need to start celebrating what we have and not focusing on what we haven't.
 
FerociousCorgis said:
first it was he just got here wait til he gets settled, then it was he is tired wait til he gets a rest and a full preseason, now it is apparently just this one game and wait til the international break. Hmm
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So after the rest he was supposed to become Messi? Give it a few games
 
Sanchez has started the way he ended last season. Losing the ball and getting us caught on counter attacks. His passing is not up to standard either. I cannot understand how people make excuses for him. He is paid top money here and he should be showing us better results. He does work and gets plenty of the ball but wastes it. Not good last night, he needs to start putting in top performances for us this season as we certainly need it.
 
How long will the ‘but he worked hard’ caveat last this season, then? He’s on monumental wages and is supposed to be our truly world class attacker to lead this team. Blank cliches about how hard he runs shouldn’t be used to defend him as though he was some 21 year old prospect.

Even more so when the manager wants to him his direct competition.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
He’s always gonna misplace a load of passes. Did the same at Arsenal. Weird that people are so horrified by this. So long as it’s in and around their box that’s fine. The price he pays for trying to make things happen. Not that it was a great performance, mind you. But certainly no worse than any other attacking player.
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He actively destroyed 90 % of our attacks. In fact it got so ridiculous my sister who doesn't care about football was laughing about how a player so bad can play for united.

It was an absolute awful performance
 
DWelbz19 said:
How long will the ‘but he worked hard’ caveat last this season, then? He’s on monumental wages and is supposed to be our truly world class attacker to lead this team. Blank cliches about how hard he runs shouldn’t be used to defend him as though he was some 21 year old prospect.

Even more so when the manager wants to him his direct competition.
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Watch the video above. Much more to his performance than just hard work.
 
Most possessions lost in Premier League last season:
Kevin De Bruyne 664
Christian Eriksen 603
Alexis Sanchez 582

If you are always trying to do the post difficult things in football, it tends to go more wrong than right, but it's those players that positively make the difference between winning and losing. If you looked at CR or Hazard, wouldn't look much different.
 
Really bad, very infuriating how he continuously lost possession. But he should have got 2 assists, one for Lukaku and one for Mata. And he did win the peno.
I won't write him off just yet.
 
IAmAWinner said:
Really bad, very infuriating how he continuously lost possession. But he should have got 2 assists, one for Lukaku and one for Mata. And he did win the peno.
I won't write him off just yet.
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Also put Rashford through on goal. Should really have scored his header from that Fred cross though. That was the difference between an “ok” and a “good” performance.
 
Tosicsleftpeg said:
He looked crap but did create 2 great chances for Mata and Lukaku.
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Great play beforehand got him the ball in those positions and he played two easy 6 yard sideway passes. I breathed a sigh of relief that they came off seeing his earlier stuff in this match.
 
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