Seems unlikely to me.
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You can see what a great squad we have from his match highlight video, our players bombarded him when he scored, Herrera even gave him a little skin on skin just for drawing the foul from Lovren. With LVG as manager, he really is at the right place to flourish.
Why if Rooney isn't fit, there's no-one else. Martials done it in the CL before against better teams than PSV.
Quite. He should start. Memphis too, given it's a return home.
I'd forgotten that fact, wonder whether LvG will start him because of that. I'd taken Memphis out of my starting lineup prediction, I feel he really needs a rest now, he looks a bit jaded.
Normally I would drop him too, but not for a return to where he made his name. You'd hope he'd want to remind the fans of what they now miss and a good performance in this situation might help his confidence. I'd have him on the bench for the next league game though.
Dream debut!
I don't know, after all the criticism- come on and score a brilliant goal against Liverpool under the Stretford End. The lad is blessed....
However, remember he's a kid. Dream start, yes but that's all it is. Expect inconsistency, that's what a lot of kids produce. A fantastic goal yes, a dream debut yes, but if he doesn't score next game or the game after or the game after then don't be surprised.
The kid has shown he's got talent but look at Memphis these last 2 games...it's a very unforgiving environment. Don't expect him to score goals like that every week or you'll be thoroughly disappointed. Class goal yesterday though, great start to his United career.
However, remember he's a kid. Dream start, yes but that's all it is. Expect inconsistency, that's what a lot of kids produce. A fantastic goal yes, a dream debut yes, but if he doesn't score next game or the game after or the game after then don't be surprised.
The kid has shown he's got talent but look at Memphis these last 2 games...it's a very unforgiving environment. Don't expect him to score goals like that every week or you'll be thoroughly disappointed. Class goal yesterday though, great start to his United career.
The essence of youth. Had that been Rooney, He would have gone to the corner flag to waist time or passed it back to Young. Skertel wasn't ready for Martial to run at him, that hit him with a surprise.
He has given us something we have missed from our strikers, someone who can make defenders think twice, he is direct he is a big player, and he is a different option to what we have got. We will see mistakes from him, but its made me happy we have got a striker with strength pace to get at defenders, which fans have been crying out for ages. When we face chelsea, guys like him could rip terry to pieces if he comes on has an impact sub
Memphis has been very good in both CL games so far.
His goal is the kind of threat I have been talking about for months that you expect with top strikers. Make defenders defend. All summer I read 'if Rooney plays up front, in an attacking team, with two good wingers providing service, he will get goals'. That’s all well and good, but top strikers make things happen. I wouldn't constitute Young's pass to Martial as 'service '.
Excellent goal yesterday.
Excellent goal, the stuff that gets you on the edge of the seat. The fact alone that he ran at Skrtel made me smile, then going easily past him with that perfect finish 
I just can't stop watching the goal, I can't remember the last time I celebrated like I did...
I think we all went overly mental because it's been so long since we seen an individual moment of class like that from one of our own. Depay in the Champions League perhaps, but this was so much bigger. It was Mattial' debut, at Old Trafford and it was against the scouse bastards.
I've watched him a few times now and I've never failed to be impressed by his dribbling. I honestly think there's nobody in England who's better than him at keeping close control whilst running at pace. Sure, there are some fantastic technicians in the PL, but Martial combines that with the kind of speed which terrifies defenders. Reminds me of prime Kaka. Or possibly even Henry if I was a racist.
Deserves to start next weekend. What a debut, it'll be talked about for years.
Not disputing that, but I think he deserves a rest. Would be a shame to burn him out too soon in the season.
I don't know what it is about him, whether it's arrogance or quiet confidence but he just didn't seem to be fazed from playing in front of 5,000 at Monaco to 70,000 at United - added to the fact that he was thrown into a Liverpool game. I think he's born to be a star.
He'll be much more heavily marked in subsequent games but given time he will become world class, I'm sure.
He'll be much more heavily marked in subsequent games but given time he will become world class, I'm sure.
With the way he plays (drifting out wide) it will be nice to see Rooney in that number 10 position behind Martial, as he'd be able make late runs down the middle, which is where he gets most of his goals from.
I'd also like to see him on the wing too, as, like we all saw yesterday, he's got great dribbling ability and directness, especially on the left wing, where he can cut onto his right.
I'd also like to see him on the wing too, as, like we all saw yesterday, he's got great dribbling ability and directness, especially on the left wing, where he can cut onto his right.
Personally thought if he hadn't scored then it would've been a typical deer in the headlights young kid performance but I suppose everyone is going to use the goal to gloss over that. In this instance though with it being such a good goal and after all the pressure and writing off of him that people have been doing, it's great that it happened and he's getting plaudits.
Martial ahead of Rooney should be interesting. Drifting to the right will allow Mata to tuck inside and Rooney to push forwards; sounds good to me.
Rooney will play through the middle if anything it will be Martial in front of Mata or Depay
So basically if you ignore all the good things he did, it becomes an average performance? Makes sense...
Can't see Rooney getting a game in midfield. We've also been playing Herrera at 10 with both Depay and Mata available, can't see why that will change.
You mean the one good thing he did?
Sometimes it only takes one special moment to have a fantastic game, that's what distinguishes the great players from the good ones, you cant just discount that in his performance yesterday.
It was a better piece of individual play than any of our other players have come up with in the league. The fact that you try to make out it is being used to 'gloss over' the rest of his performance is laughable. He was tidy in possession the other times he got the ball so I would say that for a 30 minute appearance in his first game at a new club, in a new country, playing in one of the biggest games in club football worldwide, it was a pretty good debut.
Lots of players can do the run without the finish. That was an important goal and it shows the fans, that he's got good movement and can finish things off. It's never easy coming on as a substitute but he did the most important thing.
People keep mentioning the size of Monaco crowd, but he has played in other stadiums before!
He also held up the ball well on multiple occasions. He wasn't exactly swamped for service. I mean c'mon - the lad barely misplaced a pass - how is that "deer in the headlights".
I don't think Wilson will be here in 3 years. He certainly doesn't have anywhere near the same level of potential as Martial.
Has anyone mentioned yet that it was a very Torres-like finish? I mean Torres in his prime of course.
Nah he is still to young to say he will not make it here.
Jokingly, when all the Henry comparisons were made, I said for that money he better bloody well do that cutting-in-from-the-left-and-curling-it-round-the-keeper type of goal that I always hated Henry doing. Then yesterday happened
He looked very calm and evem a touch arrogant when he put his foot on the ball and laughed at Lovren's big bully attempts to get it off of him. He also held up the ball well 2 tomes out of 4 times he touched the ball before the goal. The other two times he he 'lost it' it was from a challenge for a header and 2 or three opposition players swarming around him. He basically did something amazing the first time he got a yard of space.
Deer in the headlights indeed.
Deer in the headlights indeed.
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Just a feeling to be honest. Wouldn't put him in the same bracket as Martial for now
BTW getting Martial instead of Pedro could prove to be a masterstroke a'la Ronaldo instead of Ronaldinho (and Duff and Cole) in 2003.
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