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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
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- Goals
- 17
- Assists
- 11
- Yellow cards
- 4
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The club really got this one right. I'd have paid £100m for him if I knew he was this good.
The Black Pele.
Martial goal assisted by Valencia = the least smiley celebration for an equalising goal I've ever seen.
Clearly belongs to central attacking position. Probably just giving a rest to Memphis. Will be back to CF once Memphis is back.
#livinguptothepricetag
#livinguptothepricetag
Nice to see him make up for his error, should be playing through the middle though I think their centre halves would have been delighted playing against Rooney instead.
Attacking 101 works after all.
Well taken goal.
Need him in central areas. Not because he can't play out wide(he can), just he's a much better option than Rooney up top.
Need him in central areas. Not because he can't play out wide(he can), just he's a much better option than Rooney up top.
Good goal but he needed to make up for that nonsense in the first half.
Not much came off for him today but his technique in small areas amazes me. He reminds me so much of the Brazilian Ronaldo with his ball control.
he's good.
Which basically means, Pele.
The whole team struggled today but he looked like the one who could make something happen - and he did.
Can LVG fecking move him back up top.
Yeah, he's perfectly capable of slotting in out wide for us, but I see no reason for us to do so when he looks like our best option centrally at the moment. It'd be like us moving Rooney out wide in 2009/2010 since we'd just signed Michael Owen.
Granted, that's a bit of an exaggeration...but the general point applies.
Play him upfront ffs
Should play as a main striker.
Playing him on the left v Everton made a lot of sense. Playing him on the left tonight didn't.
What a player this kid is - wasted out wide tonight, but still scoring!
The big problem for us is this:
-He'sd better than Memphis as a winger
-He's better than Rooney as a striker, but Rooney needs to play.
-He'sd better than Memphis as a winger
-He's better than Rooney as a striker, but Rooney needs to play.
Memphis has been poor tbf
And, as a direct result of point two, putting him back upfront will result in Rooney pushed back onto the #10 and Ander benched.
I don't get the HT criticism of him. Rojo did feck all to support him in our attacking play, he was just passing him the ball and then immediately withdrawing without any reason whatsoever, leaving Martial against 2 or 3 CSKA players all the time. Even Messi would have struggled against that ffs.
At least Valencia tried to involve himself in our attacks. Rojo just left Martial against numerous opponents when it was his job to attack more after CSKA parked the bus.
Anyways, brilliant header from the lad. I'm glad he scored again and should be playing centrally for sure.
At least Valencia tried to involve himself in our attacks. Rojo just left Martial against numerous opponents when it was his job to attack more after CSKA parked the bus.
Anyways, brilliant header from the lad. I'm glad he scored again and should be playing centrally for sure.
He was pretty poor today bar the goal, his handball was idiotic. If you're going to do that try not to wear neon orange fecking gloves 
Cracking goal though, keeps showing things nobody knew he had in his locker.
Cracking goal though, keeps showing things nobody knew he had in his locker.
Or Herrera/Rooney out wide, with the other in the middle. Here's hoping.
Quite poor, Rooney is hardly pulling any trees either.
How about Rooney at left wing, surely that minimizes his effect on the team, especially if our fullback can push forward and provide some width?
He's better centrally there's no doubt about that IMO, but he again played his way into the game tonight, got a vital goal which was a cracking header and could have had a couple of assists.
5 goals and an assist in 9 games. At 19, new to the league in a side struggling to create chances. Very impressive. All he needs to do is manage to get burgled and he's batted off all the excuses made for Di Maria.
Berbatov and C.Ronaldo after the Bulgarian's sick assist against West Ham.
Edit: Not an equalizing goal. My bad.
He had a torrid time on the left-wing with Rojo putting in one of the worst LB performances I think I've ever seen in a United shirt. Constantly 1 vs 2 and isolated.
Much better on the right, once he had some proper support from his full-back.
Much better on the right, once he had some proper support from his full-back.
I was thinking about that, but again people would say Martial managed to rip Coleman a new one at least twice while it was the same Rojo as LB (shit performance by him). I wonder if it was CSKA that used a different gameplan to make Martial look bad in the first half or it was Everton that were shit on Saturday. Anyway, he managed to score the goal when we needed it and salvaged a point; good stuff.
I love LvG, but he comes out with a lot of pigheaded, moronic statements at times.
Why? Martial and Valencia on either side were our only sources of width.
Even Jamie sees it too
Rojo hung him out to dry tonight. He didn't get on the overlap once in 70 minutes.
He tried things, most of it didn't come off, but that doesn't concern me. He was up against a good defender tonight yet got his goal in the end. His header was very, very clever.
He tried things, most of it didn't come off, but that doesn't concern me. He was up against a good defender tonight yet got his goal in the end. His header was very, very clever.
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