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2014-15 Performances

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5.7 Season Average Rating
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32
Goals
4
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13
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dsch said:
Right ... let's blame everything on the person who gave away the free kick which resulted in a fluke goal. Sounds reasonable.
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No lets blame everything on the Argie who played like 30 minutes of play instead of the guy who gave the free kick that ended up with a goal and failed to score from few meters away.

I wonder what would be the reaction in here if Angel Di Maria was named Angus Mcmaria
 
Rado_N said:
He was thrown into a team producing feck all who had just gone a goal down and were generally playing crap. Like I said, he was pretty bad, but he by no means deserves to be singled out.

He needs to get some starts and a proper run, preferably in a less desperate situation.



Yes, Di Maria is the only player who has ever been cited as needing confidence. Clearly. Ffs.
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Confidence is the last thing people resort to with Di Maria when they run out of excuses, his confidence has been low since the Everton game last year..... That seems to be a problem that only him can solve, giving him 90 mins to waste balls isn't going to help his confidence in anyway.

I bet he wasn't lacking any confidence when he was signing a contract that made him more expensive than Hazard though.
 
Orton said:
Nice, these players must have been so brilliant to help us win the game then. MATA motm, attacking mid who hasn't done any attacking for 3 games. Young, cuts onto his right and puts in a hapless cross or Fellaini, what did Fellaini do today exactly? He got shoved upfront and kept getting caught offside. Not excusing Di Maria's shit performance either btw. He was crap yep, but some of the reactions. This forum gets a bit embarrassing.
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Young created far more than Mata, Rooney, Herrera, Fellaini, RVP, Di Maria or basically anyone else today.
 
Am I the only one who thought we played better with him? Even if he's wasteful at least he was doing something different and actually took a decent shot on goal. It's not like our other attackers created much more, and West Brom were doing feck all when they had it.
 
Captain Hindsight said:
Mata, Young, Rooney, Fellaini were horrible in that first half. Nearly fell asleep watching us. Stop acting as if di Maria was the worst. He created one of our best chances which should have been scored by McNair.

He also managed to get a shot on target, unlike most of our team.
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As i have pointed out twice today, The whole team was horrible, didnt stop Di Maria from wasting more balls than the whole team combined though.
 
devilish said:
No lets blame everything on the Argie who played like 30 minutes of play instead of the guy who gave the free kick that ended up with a goal and failed to score from few meters away.

I wonder what would be the reaction in here if Angel Di Maria was named Angus Mcmaria
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Who is blaming ADM for losing the game? People are saying he played like shit and is massively out of form, if you care to dispute either of those points.
 
Absolute waste of space. We'd have been better off playing with 10 men during the last 20 minutes.
 
He could go down as an even worse signing than Balotelli if he doesn't sort himself out...Scholes said at the start of the season that Di Maria didn't look happy at Utd and if that is the case then ship him out to PSG on the next Fed-EX plane ASAP
 
If PSG are still interested, we should sell him. He's never going to justify his transfer fee here, and he just doesn't seem like he will recapture his Real Madrid form in the EPL. He would probably be a lot better in Champions League but for a player we spent 58 million pounds or whatever, we should be getting great productivity in the EPL. As it stands, he has been more of a liability than an actual positive asset to us lately. PSG have some players that we definitely should be interested in (Verrati, Moura, Matuidi), so we should try to do a player swap deal.
 
Not sure how he is getting defended. Out of everyone who played today he was the worst by a distance even though he only had 30 mins. Thank feck we didn't have to see him for 90
 
Silva said:
Am I the only one who thought we played better with him?
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The best thing he did today was standing in a pocket of open space on the left and making himself available. I noticed this after his third failed cross as I was screaming at our players not to pass to him.
 
Absolutely disgraceful performance from him today. You'd hope that any player would play with a bit of passion and desire after being benched, let alone one with his ability, but it took him a good fifteen minutes to remember how to pass.
 
Wowi said:
We created a few chances without Di Maria on the pitch, and apart from one or two potentially good crosses from him they were pretty much pointless. I'd rather keep the ball going then, instead of hitting the ball aimlessly upfield.

You might also note that I never said that Di Maria was our worst player. I just said he wasted a lot of balls, which is why he'll get a lot of criticism.
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He came on and straight away we went 1-0, and everything because a chaos. It looked like we were instructed to punt the ball towards Fellaini, which is why he kept aiming for him every time he got the ball.

Most people are waiting at their keyboards for him to make a mistake so they can join the bandwagon. It's a funny read. The criticism he gets is also embarrassing to read. Like I said, he mis hit three crosses and people are acting as if he was responsible for the loss.
 
dsch said:
Who is blaming ADM for losing the game? People are saying he played like shit and is massively out of form, if you care to dispute either of those points.
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He's been given bits and pieces of games and only when the team is in a mess. Its not his fault that Mcnair is crap and our manager keeps playing strikers in midfield, midfielders as strikers, attacking midfielders as wingers and wingers as fullbacks. We'll soon see Valdez upfront and Rooney as goalkeeper.
 
We were not supposed to sign a 60 million left footed Beckham wannabe... The player that we actually signed for his ability to get past players and cross the ball perfectly managed to do neither...

He looks completely lost and broken.
 
devilish said:
No lets blame everything on the Argie who played like 30 minutes of play instead of the guy who gave the free kick that ended up with a goal and failed to score from few meters away.

I wonder what would be the reaction in here if Angel Di Maria was named Angus Mcmaria
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:lol:
 
Di Maria hasn't done anything spectacular in 6 months, but yeah, let's make excuses for the man that we broke the Transfer Record for, Bale was playing badly Madrid fans were hard on him, he started playing well again, Ozil,Giroud,Hazard etc Di Maria? no, confidence mate, we cant criticise him.
 
Captain Hindsight said:
He came on and straight away we went 1-0, and everything because a chaos. It looked like we were instructed to punt the ball towards Fellaini, which is why he kept aiming for him every time he got the ball.

Most people are waiting at their keyboards for him to make a mistake so they can join the bandwagon. It's a funny read. The criticism he gets is also embarrassing to read. Like I said, he mis hit three crosses and people are acting as if he was responsible for the loss.
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Yep exactly. It's like he was the only one hitting shitty crosses. Far from it.
 
dxadel said:
Di Maria hasn't done anything spectacular in 6 months, but yeah, let's make excuses for the man that we broke the Transfer Record for, Bale was playing badly Madrid fans were hard on him, he started playing well again, Ozil,Giroud,Hazard etc Di Maria? no, confidence mate, we cant criticise him.
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Criticize him all you want, but some of the reactions are embarrassing.
 
On the plus side, it's great that we can waste all that money on such a dud and not be completely screwed for the next transfer window.
 
mu4c_20le said:
The best thing he did today was standing in a pocket of open space on the left and making himself available. I noticed this after his third failed cross as I was screaming at our players not to pass to him.
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Harsh. For one unlike our other attackers he shot when he could see the goal not as soon as there were 11 players directly in front of him. He beat his mean and didn't immediately stop, won corners, a few bad crosses? Well feck, might as well chuck our entire team out because there weren't many good ones today.
 
Just looks like he doesn't want to be here to me, even allowing for him beinf off form he was absolutely shocking when he came on.

The big worry about keeping hold of him for next year is that if he plays like this again we'll end up losing about £50m on him.
 
devilish said:
He's been given bits and pieces of games and only when the team is in a mess. Its not his fault that Mcnair is crap and our manager keeps playing strikers in midfield, midfielders as strikers and attacking midfielders as wingers. We'll soon see Valdez upfront and Rooney as goalkeeper.
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That's not unreasonable. Perhaps just say that next time instead of pinning a bad result on one player.
 
Orton said:
Yeah, and I forgot that he helped us create chances too. We had pretty much all of the ball for 90 minutes, and created almost nothing with it, at home against West fecking Brom. Busiest man of the team, who cares? He didn't offer enough, neither did any other attacker today apart from RVP who was our best player in his first start in over 2 months.
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Still offered a whole lot more than your boy Angel, at least with Young we actually looked like we knew what we were doing and he wasn't giving the ball for a Goal Kick.
 
A player does not become so poor so quickly, especially when he looked fantastic at the start of the season. The team is currently too safe and it does not lend itself to any creativity. He hit a few shit crosses, but Young spent the whole game doing exactly the same and on the other side Mata did absolutely nothing. If it was just him playing shit then fair enough but for weeks now the wings have been poor.
 
dxadel said:
Still offered a whole lot more than your boy Angel, at least with Young we actually looked like we knew what we were doing and he wasn't giving the ball for a Goal Kick.
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knew what we were doing, as in crossing it into the box and looking for Fellaini. Inspirational stuff. I didn't excuse Di Maria's performance. I said he was shit.
 
Captain Hindsight said:
He came on and straight away we went 1-0, and everything because a chaos. It looked like we were instructed to punt the ball towards Fellaini, which is why he kept aiming for him every time he got the ball.

Most people are waiting at their keyboards for him to make a mistake so they can join the bandwagon. It's a funny read. The criticism he gets is also embarrassing to read. Like I said, he mis hit three crosses and people are acting as if he was responsible for the loss.
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Is there actually a significant amount of people doing that? There'll always be a few of course, but generally people are just saying that he had a poor game and wasted possession a lot of times. You're probably right that he was instructed to find Fellaini, but that doesn't really excuse the crosses that were nowhere near anyone. And even if he was instructed to find Fellaini, hoofing the ball up when he's on his own and marked by two players is just a poor idea.

A lot of the reactions also reflect the fact that people know what he's capable of. Despite his poor form, people still believe/hope he can set up a goal somehow. And he did have a very good cross shortly after he came on, but then it just went downhill.
 
dsch said:
That's not unreasonable. Perhaps just say that next time instead of pinning a bad result on one player.
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Im simply said that he's not the one who costed the game. If we had to pin one guy than that guy would be Mcnair followed by LVG. Mcnair made the foul and he failed an open goal.

By no means, dont allow me to spoil the witchhunt against the Argie though.
 
devilish said:
He's been given bits and pieces of games and only when the team is in a mess. Its not his fault that Mcnair is crap and our manager keeps playing strikers in midfield, midfielders as strikers, attacking midfielders as wingers and wingers as fullbacks. We'll soon see Valdez upfront and Rooney as goalkeeper.
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He was despicably bad today, and made a fool of people like you who demanded he shouid be starting.
 
Eyepopper said:
Just looks like he doesn't want to be here to me, even allowing for him beinf off form he was absolutely shocking when he came on.

The big worry about keeping hold of him for next year is that if he plays like this again we'll end up losing about £50m on him.
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How do you come to that conclusion?

Based on that horrific performance, does anyone actually want to be here?
 
Silva said:
Harsh. For one unlike our other attackers he shot when he could see the goal not as soon as there were 11 players directly in front of him. He beat his mean and didn't immediately stop, won corners, a few bad crosses? Well feck, might as well chuck our entire team out because there weren't many good ones today.
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The same people have put up with Valencia's shit crossing for about 3 years
 
£60 million and he can't even cross a ball properly. He was really poor when he came on.
 
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