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2015-16 Performances

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6.6 Season Average Rating
Appearances
49
Goals
17
Assists
11
Yellow cards
4
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It's funny how the whole team just fanny around passing sideways and backwards until it reaches martial, then he suddenly just bursts forward and runs passed his defender.

If only we had 2 other of him for the striker and rw position we would probably win the CL :lol:
 
Probably the biggest indictment of LVG is that for all the money we spent, we would be fecked without him.
 
bosnian_red said:
Was by far his worst game for us... Every time he dribbled past them, they just brought him down so he couldn't do anything. Still created the chances for Herrera and Rooney so could've had a couple of assists on another day, but was a meh performance.
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He created two excellent chances and the full back he was up against had to be switched off of him at half time because he was a foul away from a second yellow card.

He can't be expected to do much more all on his own surely.
 
That pass he played to Rooney was superb.

He's our only attacking threat in the final 3rd. It's a shame we depend so much on him. Imagine how badly we'd look without him? I shudder.
 
Hes the sole enjoyment I get out of watching United these days. That pass for Rooney deserved so much better...
 
It is a joke that after the brilliant performances he had for United in the center, our manager has decided to shift him out wide. I do not understand the logic in that. Such decision in particular when the alternative has been below average should be a sackable offense if I m being hyperbolic.
 
dileno said:
It's almost like you can see him thinking what have I done joining this poor United side. Feeling gutted for the lad.
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Could have been worse...could have joined Chelsea :angel:

marjen said:
Hes the sole enjoyment I get out of watching United these days. That pass for Rooney deserved so much better...
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Pretty much this. He's the only player we have that you'd pay money to watch.
 
Thought he gave the ball away a little too much at times. He also showed really good signs too though.
 
He's the only dangerous player we have and we chuck him out on the wing.
 
He's a bit unlucky on the assists stats. By now he should have at least 4 or 5 more assists to his name. He's put some absolute sitters for players to finnish off yet nothing came off(Ronney vs Wolfsburg, vs Everton, vs Palace, Herrera vs Palace, Memphis vs Sunderland) and some other I probably can't remember. Those chances were absolute sitters waiting to be bury and would have been on other days.
 
I wonder how he feels about United's other offensive players. He came to United as " that 19 year old unproven kid with a price tag of 50 million " and he immediately outperforms everybody. :lol:
 
Putting him on the wings is hurting us since we need his goals and he is lethal in the box plus his hold up play is far better than Rooney's.
But it is excellent that he can do both, his dribbling is very impressive. Definitely our best attacking player by a mile.
 
I love the way when he's in the box he pulls to 1 side and isolates a CB with his back to them, then receives the ball to feet while holding them off, and will quickly turn or lay it off to a runner.

He's absolutely fantastic at holding the ball, for a guy his size it's very impressive. The fact he can then turn with little touches of the ball makes him very difficult to mark - something we haven't utilised enough recently.
 
He's got the 'softest feet' of any player I've seen at United, including Berbatov and Di Maria.

45% pass completion yesterday was pretty shit, though.
 
Dante said:
He's got the 'softest feet' of any player I've seen at United, including Berbatov and Di Maria.

45% pass completion yesterday was pretty shit, though.
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That's an area of his game he will have to improve with time. He played a beautifully-weighted ball to Rooney, but he does misplace some fairly easy passes. I think that's the inconsistency of youth.

His feet are incredible, and he's a wonderful prospect. We need to get rid of Van Gaal and Rooney, put Martial up top, buy a top winger and a backup striker. I think Memphis and Mata will do much better under another manager, especially if we could somehow get Guardiola. We'll always be tumescent under Van Gaal though.
 
He would be good on the left if we had Scholes to supply him with inch perfect cross field balls on his chest like Valencia and Nani in 2009 and 2010.

But we don't have Scholes. So start him as striker.
 
Dante said:
He's got the 'softest feet' of any player I've seen at United, including Berbatov and Di Maria.

45% pass completion yesterday was pretty shit, though.
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So that through pass to Rooney was technically Martial's fault. I guess its true his team mates actually are letting him down :lol:
 
Interesting comments from Pardew after the game.

Alan Pardew was reluctant to get too involved in the analysis of United’s current attacking concept, but in outlining how Crystal Palace set about their preparations for this game, he shone a fascinating light on the Rooney-Martial conundrum. Louis van Gaal continues to prefer the United captain up front, with the French teenager back in the position where he spent most of his apprenticeship in France after such an eventful opening salvo as the centrepiece of United’s frontline. But Pardew was clear about the danger Palace were most concerned about. “We didn’t give Martial an inch today,” assessed the Palace manager. “Not an inch. It was a big target for us to stop him and we felt if we could stop him, we could stop their creative angle. When you take into account his age, that’s some recommendation, by the way. Our analysis is much greater than it has ever been. Our information is much greater so to protect ourselves against the top players, we have greater awareness. I have to say he is an impressive young player. I think he handled himself very well because he would have felt our presence around him and still he had moments in the game. The Man United manager will have to be very, very careful I think to keep his exuberance there because we were looking to stop him, I make no bones about that.” It all seemed to add to the case for Martial to be given more game time in the middle.
 
Interesting but expected really. Everyone but van Gaal and Co can see that he is our best attacker atm and should be played centrally.
 
Although not exactly the same, I remember thinking the similarly about Adnan in the Moyes year. He was also playing so much better than any of our other attacking players and felt he was carrying the team for a bit.

It's a shame that Adnan's gone back a bit since then, but it's one of the reasons I have faith both Martial and Januzaj will come good. Both have shown form when others haven't.
 
kr0nix said:
Interesting comments from Pardew after the game.

Alan Pardew was reluctant to get too involved in the analysis of United’s current attacking concept, but in outlining how Crystal Palace set about their preparations for this game, he shone a fascinating light on the Rooney-Martial conundrum. Louis van Gaal continues to prefer the United captain up front, with the French teenager back in the position where he spent most of his apprenticeship in France after such an eventful opening salvo as the centrepiece of United’s frontline. But Pardew was clear about the danger Palace were most concerned about. “We didn’t give Martial an inch today,” assessed the Palace manager. “Not an inch. It was a big target for us to stop him and we felt if we could stop him, we could stop their creative angle. When you take into account his age, that’s some recommendation, by the way. Our analysis is much greater than it has ever been. Our information is much greater so to protect ourselves against the top players, we have greater awareness. I have to say he is an impressive young player. I think he handled himself very well because he would have felt our presence around him and still he had moments in the game. The Man United manager will have to be very, very careful I think to keep his exuberance there because we were looking to stop him, I make no bones about that.” It all seemed to add to the case for Martial to be given more game time in the middle.
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I find this sad and incredibly unacceptable.
 
certainly looked that way, they were hounding him and doubling up, still sliced them open with that pass. So teams already acknowledge him our biggest threat even stuck out wide
 
When you're relying on a 19 year old to create and score goals you have problems.

But please play him up fecking front!
 
Yeah you can tell teams have already started to double up on him, amazing really. Yet he's still managing to produce key moments each game. Shame he is doing everything on his own.
 
Ixion said:
Yeah you can tell teams have already started to double up on him, amazing really. Yet he's still managing to produce key moments each game. Shame he is doing everything on his own.
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We aren't helping him enough either considering Rojo rarely overlaps to give him space, or the right wing doesn't take advantage of the extra space.
 
its pissing me off watching this guy on the wing when he could become our best striker in years. we have such a talent on our books and we are doing our best to waste him.
 
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal admits he doesn't know what Anthony Martial's best position is yet.

The 19-year-old French international has scored five times for the Reds, but has found himself playing out left in recent games with Wayne Rooney up front, something that has frustrated the club's supporters.

The Dutchman said: "He played always in Monaco as a left winger and I have to see what is the best balance in the team. We have played him in the striker's position, but in Monaco he played more or less at the left-wing."

:nervous: sooooo the no9 is no longer really considered a no9?

EDIT: Does this guy ever know anyones best position?

Rooney, ADM, Herrera, Mata, Januzaj, etc etc etc
 
Cassidy said:
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal admits he doesn't know what Anthony Martial's best position is yet.

The 19-year-old French international has scored five times for the Reds, but has found himself playing out left in recent games with Wayne Rooney up front, something that has frustrated the club's supporters.

The Dutchman said: "He played always in Monaco as a left winger and I have to see what is the best balance in the team. We have played him in the striker's position, but in Monaco he played more or less at the left-wing."

:nervous: sooooo the no9 is no longer really considered a no9?

EDIT: Does this guy ever know anyones best position?

Rooney, ADM, Herrera, Mata, Januzaj, etc etc etc
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Up feckin front Louis, up feckin front. It's not that hard.
 
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