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2014-15 Performances

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5.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
32
Goals
4
Assists
13
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1
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luckyspurs said:
Had tonnes of movement around him. Just needed to hit it with good final ball.

Newcastle's defence left acres of space for him about 6 or 7 times and he played two good passes.
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Are you here just to act the dick? Could've finished the game with FOUR assists, at the hour mark. That isn't finding a final ball? You're hopeless.
 
He put 2 balls on a plate for our players to score, what more can you ask?. Yes he misses passes and sometimes messes up dribbles, but long story short if Fellaini could finish and the linesman didn't mess up we would have been 2-0 up with 2 di Maria assists.

I was quite surprised to be honest as he made things happen.
 
ivaldo said:
Are you here just to act the dick? Could've finished the game with FOUR assists, at the hour mark. That isn't finding a final ball? You're hopeless.
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I wasn't counting the pass to Rooney as a quality pass, given it forced Rooney to pirouette rather than infront of him for the easy finish. Honestly if Shaun Wright-Phillips played that pass in an England shirt you'd be demanding he was substituted, not adding it onto his key passes total to quote after the match.
 
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The struggle was real tonight. Good energy but general play was short of standard. Thought he found it tough on the right tonight and would have been better on the left hand side.

He's lucky Januzaj wasn't very good, barring one inside pass to Rooney, when he came on this time around.
 
Why not take him off at half time, if you're going to take him off when he actually looks better, created the sitter for Fellaini/Young and the through ball for Rooney where he was arguably onside. A minute later he leaves Taylor in the dust and actually scuffed the cross but that was at least an opportunity. Newcastle knew his threat, always had Ameobi doubling on him, that created chances for Valencia. Taking him off almost cost us the game. It's amazing most of you aren't enjoying van Gaal's reign, you hate anyone who tries the what isn't the easiest, safest option in a position. Nani was booed at OT, Di Maria will probably be booed in a few games.
 
Di Maria was improved if not particularly brilliant. Noticeable that all our attacks were going through him though.
 
Lost the ball about a million times, and still could of had about 4 assists.

Thats Di Maria, on a bad night, in a nutshell.
 
Adam-Utd said:
He put 2 balls on a plate for our players to score, what more can you ask?. Yes he misses passes and sometimes messes up dribbles, but long story short if Fellaini could finish and the linesman didn't mess up we would have been 2-0 up with 2 di Maria assists.

I was quite surprised to be honest as he made things happen.
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Should play every game, creates the most of any player in the team (and would do in most teams with high possession stats) and was well worth signing (even if overpriced), but 2 quality passes from all those great positions he got put in wasn't that great. It wasn't terrible either. 6 out of 10 maybe.
 
luckyspurs said:
I wasn't counting the pass to Rooney as a great pass, as it forced Rooney to pirouette rather than infront of him for the easy finish. Honestly if Shaun Wright-Phillips played that pass in an England shirt you'd be demanding he was substituted, not adding it onto his key passes total to quote after the match.
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Yeah so how about the other 3, no comment on those?
 
Should have stayed on. He just needs to be a bit more lucky (or better) with his final ball. The rest of his game was great, good link up play with Valencia, injected pace and urgency and was always available
 
Not sure bringing him off was a good call, he's a bit like Nani in needing an arm around the shoulder as opposed to a boot in the arse.
 
Let's not drop our standards here, he was dire. He can't afford to just continuously give the opposition the ball like that, its gonna hurt us against the better counter attacking teams. Try him on the left please.
 
We'd have 80% possession if he didn't keep giving it away.

Though he did at least make a few things happen tonight e.g. setting up Fellaini with a great ball that should've been buried.

Could understand his frustration at being taken off, but Januzaj deserved minutes based on the weekend.

We're just going to have to persist with him until he regains form. Too big an investment. And he has undoubted quality.
 
ivaldo said:
Yeah so how about the other 3, no comment on those?
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I actually said he played two great passes on the previous page. The point was he had the ball in space with clear passing lanes and great movement in behind from team-mates about 7 or 8 times and only really found the mark twice how he'd want to.

They were class when they worked, but I can guarantee Suarez or Rodriguez or someone would have got stick on the La Liga thread for needing that many good positions to start finding team-mates in the box.
 
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What a weird performance, giving the ball in idiotic situations, fecking up counters yet creating some very good chances, can't really say I'm angry with him as I was the last match but still looks off the boil.
 
I found it weird that he went off when he did. He was making things happen and our only creative player and his replacement was pretty useless. He really needs to cut out the careless passing though. It's going to cost us a goal!
 
Solius said:
He's a great player when he's got space ahead of him but in tight situations and build up that requires patience he's useless. That's why he looked so good a lot of the time for Madrid, they played on the counter with speed.
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Thats why he's a much much better midfielder then he is a winger.
 
He was poor. I'm sorry but he was. We just have to wait for him to settle down. He wasn't happy coming off but he needs to relax and use his experience to improve his final ball. I've seen other players get much worse stick for such performances. He'll coming good but right now he's getting more things wrong then right.
 
He does have the frustrating tendency to lose the ball which leads directly to the opponents getting a counter attack.
 
luckyspurs said:
I actually said he had two great passes on the previous page. The point was he got the ball in space with clear passing lanes and great movement in behind from team-mates about 7 or 8 times and only really found the mark twice how he'd want to.

They were class passes, but I can guarantee Suarez or Rodriguez or someone would have got stick on the La Liga thread for needing that many good positions to start finding team-mates in the box.
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Care to details these easy opportunities he missed? Or are you just going to spout random bullshit?
 
Strange game, was poor overall but at the same time made some good chances for the team if only we could learn to put them away.
 
As the team gains confidence, I believe his performances will improve.

He also needs a consistent position on the pitch. He's not dealing with the pressure and responsibility very well.
 
I didn't appreciate how one-footed he is. Him and Valencia just cannot play on the same wing because the defender already knows what they are going to do every time.
 
When you're off form, you don't change your style of play. Di Maria is the type of player who will always try and do something productive whenever he gets the ball. He won't look for an easy pass or the easy option, he wants to be effective and take risks.

Unfortunately that means when he is off form the majority of things he does won't work. But the few great moments and passes show what he would do more consistently if he was off form.

I'm as frustrated with him as the next guy but I would rather he continued to play with the ambition of always doing something productive and special than go into a shell and play the simple passes. Why? Because when he's on form I would want him to play that way, not be a Di Maria who loses his flair and wow factor.
 
Right, why does he seemingly want to make everything a million times harder then it has to be? He uses the outside of his foot, when a simple pass with the inside will do... he takes the ball inside and attempts to take on three men, when going outside and taking on one will do. He often picks the harder option, when there is a much easier and just as progressive/threatening pass on. Every pass, every single pass HAS to be played as close to the defender as possible - which is why half of them get intercepted... it's really feckin' frustrating.

Some stuff come off tonight, some stuff didn't... but my god, it's like he's trying to make everyone aware that he's a World Class player. It's meant to be effortless for him - and it looked effortless at the beginning of the season, and when he was at Real... but now, it's like he's trying to prove his worth or - as I said earlier in this thread - he believes his hype.

Football can be simple Angel... try it.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
Right, why does he seemingly want to make everything a million times harder then it has to be? He uses the outside of his foot, when a simple pass with the inside will do... he takes the ball inside and attempts to take on three men, when going outside and taking on one will do. He often picks the harder option, when there is a much easier and just as progressive/threatening pass on. Every pass, every single pass HAS to be played as close to the defender as possible - which is why half of them get intercepted... it's really feckin' frustrating.

Some stuff come off tonight, some stuff didn't... but my god, it's like he's trying to make everyone aware that he's a World Class player. It's meant to be effortless for him - and it looked effortless at the beginning of the season, and when he was at Real... but now, it's like he's trying to prove his worth or - as I said earlier in this thread - he believes his hype.

Football can be simple Angel... try it.
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When hes on the pitch, basically the team gives him the ball and waits for him to do something...
 
Cassidy said:
When hes on the pitch, basically the team gives him the ball and waits for him to do something...
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I'm not disputing that - if anything, he probably sort of feels that weight of expectation himself - and so is trying to do absolutely everything, all the time.
 
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