It's amazing how some fans expect Amad to be almost perfect in every game to justify getting a start, yet they'll tolerate Rashford and Garnacho stinking out the gaff on a regular basis before one of them is ever taken out of the team!
On a technical level, his close control is far better than those two. He's a better decision maker than those two also. Most of the time he will try to play the right pass. Although I have noticed in his last few games that he has tried a few uncharacteristic long range shots from low % positions. I've put that down to frustration at seeing Marcus, Garnacho (and Antony when he was playing) doing the same on a weekly basis and being rewarded with regular game time, so maybe he thinks that's the way to get ahead at this club. I hope it doesn't start to become a bad habit.
(Yes, I'm aware his 2nd goal came from a cut-inside and shot, but there were no other viable options so sometimes it is the correct decision!)
His workrate and tenacity is not even on the same planet as Marcus. Physically, Marcus is a unit but has anyone ever seen him fight for a ball and shrug off a defender twice his size, like Amad did last night? Wouldn't happen.
Garnacho to be fair has a good workrate, but I don't think he has the innate physical strength of Amad. Garnacho gets easily bullied out of games by physical defenders, I don't think that happens to Amad even though he's not a big guy.
He's probably not as fast as the other two, so he might not make the same eye-catching runs with the ball which a lot of United fans like to romanticise about. But most of those "eye-catching" runs they make lead to them running into a wall of defenders and losing possession, so I've had a bollocks-full of watching that the last 18 months!
Hoping this guy becomes an important player in Amorim’s system, gets some world class coaching, and gets a run of games in the team where he's allowed develop and not expected to shoot the lights out in every match in order to keep his place.
On a technical level, his close control is far better than those two. He's a better decision maker than those two also. Most of the time he will try to play the right pass. Although I have noticed in his last few games that he has tried a few uncharacteristic long range shots from low % positions. I've put that down to frustration at seeing Marcus, Garnacho (and Antony when he was playing) doing the same on a weekly basis and being rewarded with regular game time, so maybe he thinks that's the way to get ahead at this club. I hope it doesn't start to become a bad habit.
(Yes, I'm aware his 2nd goal came from a cut-inside and shot, but there were no other viable options so sometimes it is the correct decision!)
His workrate and tenacity is not even on the same planet as Marcus. Physically, Marcus is a unit but has anyone ever seen him fight for a ball and shrug off a defender twice his size, like Amad did last night? Wouldn't happen.
Garnacho to be fair has a good workrate, but I don't think he has the innate physical strength of Amad. Garnacho gets easily bullied out of games by physical defenders, I don't think that happens to Amad even though he's not a big guy.
He's probably not as fast as the other two, so he might not make the same eye-catching runs with the ball which a lot of United fans like to romanticise about. But most of those "eye-catching" runs they make lead to them running into a wall of defenders and losing possession, so I've had a bollocks-full of watching that the last 18 months!
Hoping this guy becomes an important player in Amorim’s system, gets some world class coaching, and gets a run of games in the team where he's allowed develop and not expected to shoot the lights out in every match in order to keep his place.
but I thought others were doing more than him in training? Was the clearest case of a manager (who isn’t very good) not rating a player for no real rational reason