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2018-19 Performances

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5.1 Season Average Rating
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27
Goals
2
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5
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He’s only one of so many of our players who are unable to perform in this team. These ‘tactics’ suit nobody, but we can’t seem to play any other way.

Sánchez was an instinctive player, but our players seem unable to improvise or have any spontaneity at all. This has been going on since van Gaal though.
 
One of his better performances but still pretty awful. I'd persist with him there because I don't think he was any worse than Mata or Lingard are on the right.
 
Treble said:
He was very poor, one of his worst performances, imo.
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He looked decent on the right in the first half, some decent attempts to bring the ball forward. Second half though everything was dreadful from him, lost the ball most of the time.
 
He can play on the right but right now it’s just not happening for him full stop. He had a couple of chances to pull the trigger but didn’t which shows where his confidence level is at.
 
He was shocking and yet that was probably one of his better performances for us. How tragic is that?! I give up.
 
What's better than dog shite?
Cat piss? Rat droppings?

He was better than dog shite, whatever that is.
 
He needs to be benched for a run of games
 
Did arsenal send us someone who looks like Sanchez???? Decision making is terrible. I would have better decision making and i have not kicked a ball in four fecking years.
 
I think he tried. He worked his bollocks off. I seen him sprint and track back numerous times. Nothing came off for him whatsoever though and he still seems to be bitching at every other player even when it's him who makes the mistake,
 
I still can't write him off because, under José, no one looks good. If he's still here when we get a new manager in and doesn't step it up then there's no argument for the contrary. Until then, I have some hope that he isn't completely finished yet.

kouroux said:
Why didn't he hit that chance first time ? I'm pretty sure he did the same "extra touch" bs too last season in a league game
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He does it a lot, yeah. One of his most annoying traits.
 
Yagami said:
I still can't write him off because, under José, no one looks good. If he's still here when we get a new manager in and doesn't step it up then there's no argument for the contrary. Until then, I have some hope that he isn't completely finished yet.
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He didn't look good under Wenger during the first half of last season either. The bloke is finished at the top level.
 
Ether said:
He didn't look good under Wenger during the first half of last season either. The bloke is finished at the top level.
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That's true - I wouldn't argue otherwise. Still, Arsenal were a bit of a mess themselves then, too, so I still can't bring myself to write him off. Maybe it's blind optimism on my part, but no one looking good under José and Arsenal being a bit of a mess last year, coupled with how much I was a fan of his and how highly I did rate him just prevents me from outright writing him off like most.
 
Any one will look bad with Lukaku upfront. We move the ball far too slowly and pass the ball only after the opposition has settled back into shape.
Players like Sanchez, Martial needs the ball played to them early. They also need the striker to create space for them.
This is the big issue with our wide men. There is no good movement off the ball by Lukaku.
 
Thought he was our brightest player second half and most likely to be involved in any potential goal. He got is us going down the right side and was linking well. Not seen anything from Jesse, Rashford, Mata and Martial to suggest we should be playing them instead.

Was very disappointed to see him both taken off and most importantly the fans cheering that. The fetishisation of Martial I will never understand.
 
Today I saw a player who is positioned about 20m too far back - Sanchez was making blocks in our penalty box - and who has no trust in Lukaku. I thought he was ok today - our RW is so weak that he offered a bit more protection than Mata (which is none) but there's no movement ahead of him (as in geneuinely who can he pass to?) and Valencia doesn't overlap so I don't get what people expected of him today from an attacking perspective. For once he seemed to really be trying but this team selection and rotation is getting silly now, it's what I used to do on Champ Man when I panicked!
 
He looks spent.

But then again it's hard to know what's a lack of quality from the players and what's stemming from the manager, seeing as underperforming attacking players is the order of the day under Mourinho.
 
Weirdly enough I thought he was a massive upgrade on our other right-wingers.

Not on top form obviously but at least he knew where to be when and often created Valencia problems through sheer force of will.
 
endless_wheelies said:
Weirdly enough I thought he was a massive upgrade on our other right-wingers.

Not on top form obviously but at least he knew where to be when and often created Valencia problems through sheer force of will.
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Don't know if I'd go as far as to say a massive upgrade but if he's going to be playing I'd rather it be on the right so at least we can give a run of games to Martial or Rashford on the left to see if either of them can play themselves into form.
 
Would we be better off giving him a month off with no football? He doesn’t seem to be playing with any instinct.
Would cost us what? 2 million in wages, for a refreshed player.
He’s going nowhere fast right now.
 
tomaldinho1 said:
Today I saw a player who is positioned about 20m too far back - Sanchez was making blocks in our penalty box...
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This is really the key issue with Sanchez. He is not a winger. If you think about the Football Manager positions, for those who are familiar with the game, he's an inside forward. He needs to have freedom, and to pop up all over the place along the forward line, not be a right-sided midfielder in a stringent formation.

Mourinho has never trusted wide players or creative players. They always go backwards under him, or he loses trust in them. I remember the first Chelsea team he had, they were absolutely flying with Robben and Duff (and look at the career that Robben has had since). But he ended up marginalising both of them. He also signed Wright-Phillips and never trusted him. Martial and Rashford have both gone backwards under Mourinho, and he famously let both Salah and de Bruyne go (obviously de Bruyne is now a fantastic midfielder, but he was primarily a wide player originally).

If you watch this video, you can see Sanchez's last two goals for Arsenal:



Particularly the second goal, can you imagine him being allowed to do that for United? He's never going to be afforded that sort of freedom, whereby he feels he can run in behind the defence and be the furthest player forward. If you don't give him that then you're totally wasting him.

It is true that Sanchez's last few months at Arsenal weren't as good as his earlier period, but don't forget (a) he wanted to leave at this time, and obviously wasn't motivated, (b) he still scored 8 in 22 appearances, and several of those were as sub, whereas he has scored 3 in 24 for United, and one of those was a rebound from a penalty that he missed. If you look back, he started last season slowly for Arsenal, being rested by Wenger, but by October he had picked up, and scored 7 goals between 22nd October and leaving. If he'd stayed, he probably would have got 20+ goals again.

I can't believe that he's completely shot, nine months after scoring those goals against Palace, which were literally days before he joined United. He's just not being used properly, he's probably disillusioned because he clearly should have joined City, and Mourinho just doesn't trust players like him.

He got by for a long time on playing rigid, structured football that was very defensively solid. But the game has moved on, and he hasn't.
 
Infordin said:
Wenger was usually quite good at noticing when a player began to decline.
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Yep, he had a knack for offloading players at the right time. Not many you can say left Arsenal and became better players for it. RVP was the only one who replicated his peak Arsenal form for his new club, but that was only for a year or so. Cesc, Adebayor, Song, Hleb and even the likes of Henry, Vieira and co. (granted they were in the latter stages of their careers) never reached the heights they showed once they left.
 
Wasn't great but as poor as he was he was still better than Lingard and way better than Mata on the right. He should be given a run of games there, leave the left to Rashford and Martial.
 
Sanchez was never WC when it came to the finer details of technique. Great work-rate and a physical specimen in some ways, though.
 
All he needs to do is bring Gary Neville to orgasm one time and this will be a mirror image of Torres-to-Chelsea.

That final cross before he was subbed says it all really. From the corner flag to a Valencia throw 30 yards upfield. Christ he’s poor.
 
Very poor display tonight but par for the course for him. The entire forward line stinks though so perhaps he shouldn't be singled out but so far, he has been underwhelming for us. Another commercial acquisition that has gone tits up.
 
I don’t think he was as bad as is being made out, particularly in the first half.

Him trudging off the pitch when getting subbed was out of order though, 15 mins to go and he dawdles off, really poor form.
 
Mourinho is the worst thing that could've happened to a player like Sanchez, or Martial or every attacking player at Utd. No dynamism, no attacking system, no movement at all. No wonder everyone is struggling.
 
Erics_Collar said:
What else is there to say? He looks like a Sunday league player out there, one that thinks he's better than he is and always looses the ball. You know the type...
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Loud as a motorbike?

But wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight?
 
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