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2014-15 Performances

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5.6 Season Average Rating
Appearances
35
Clean sheets
12
Goals
0
Assists
5
Yellow cards
4
Young got caught out of position a few times. Don't remember Newcastle having much joy down our right. Valencia's role seemed to be to shut down that flank... and he did it.
 
Really impressed with Valencia lately given how poor he had become. This no frills wing back role really suits him and his pace and power is valuable to us when defending a quick counter. The more he plays the role the more his defensive awareness improves also.

It is funny really as all the top managers seem to have a lot of time for Antonio Valencia, even when he is off form. van Gaal likes him and even Guardiola spoke highly of him when we played Bayern. He also seemed to always play for Fergie even when in dire form.
 
He is a manager's dream. No agent, follows instructions, never complains, and is strong and fast and conservative with his play.

Rafael is still much better though.
 
He's doing alright but I would take Rafael back without question, whereas Young is at least making the manager think when Shaw is fit. Young is really taking his chance, taking on his man, putting in good crosses, showing some pace. Valencia needs to follow his lead, show more confidence.
 
When he keeps moving when he gets the ball, defenders don't know what to do with him - they'll continue to back off him. It's when he stops that he loses all effectiveness usually. Did actually get a shot on goal today and wish he'd do a bit more of that - it's there for him usually when he is more agressive.
 
One of my favourite things to witness in football is still one of Valencia's displays of his freakish strength. I swear there was one point today where one of their defenders tried to push him and ended up falling over himself... t'was hilarious.
 
To be honest, bar the run and cutback for Rooney in the Liverpool game, he's still not contributing a great deal going forward is he? Young's whipping in quality cross one after the other, we're very reliant on him in an attacking sense it seems because there's not a lot going on down the right hand side.
 
Dominos said:
To be honest, bar the run and cutback for Rooney in the Liverpool game, he's still not contributing a great deal going forward is he? Young's whipping in quality cross one after the other, we're very reliant on him in an attacking sense it seems because there's not a lot going on down the right hand side.
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In fairness it's very rare that both wingers/wingbacks dominate in the same game.Play tends to drift towards one side,usually Young's as he is a better crosser.Young had a n ordinary game against Liverpool because Valencia was dominating.

That said he did get a shot on target and broke free once and should have done better with the pass to RVP.There definately is more to come from him going forward but it wan't really his fault play wasn't going through him this time.
 
Much better defender than Young, and I think Valencia was better than him against both Liverpool and Villa. And Rafael and Shaw should be far away from certain starting positions (at least as long as we play with 3 CBs) because both Young and Valencia have been really solid.
 
He is showing that he is definitely capable of being a back-up to Rafael, which is a good thing.
 
He's not done anything bad but when you look at Young, you can't help but feel he should be offering a heck of a lot going forward especially a he's supposed to be a winger.
 
Tottenham 0:0 Man Utd
Solid defensively but offered nothing in attack, then got injured because we have to have at least one per game.
 
His removal disrupted our momentum significantly. We suffered a lot from the formation change. In my opinion, he kept their attack from the left very quiet. We missed his physical presence in the second half. Hope he will be fit for Stoke. Rafael will get a red card if he starts there.
 
I hope his injury is not too serious. He played well before he had to come off.
 
What many seem to take for granted is Valencia's physical presence. Pardew talked about hitting United on the counter with quick players, Gouffran being one of them. He tried several times to race down that left side but was easily outpaced by Valencia every time. Against Tottenham, they might have gone through on the counter as well down the middle had not Valencia rushed back to intercept.

Currently, he may not offer too much going forwards, unless when forced to and then he runs past a couple of players, but his passing, retention of the ball and defensive work rate is very valuable.
 
I wish he could cross properly. More precisely, I wish he could use at least a couple of crossing techniques.

He never whips in crosses. He always blasts them into the area. When he tries to hang them up it inevitably fails. A bit annoying, because in his first couple of seasons he was a good crosser of the ball and got plenty of assists.
 
Man Utd 0:1 Southampton
Looks like he gained a couple of cylinders to his engine and added a turbo. It's been a long time since he's looked this fast. Probably our only player looking decent tonight.
 
I thought he did well, obviously no quality delivery but he was one of our only players who could beat a man and get us on the front foot. Did that a good 3 or 4 times to progress moves down the right
 
At least he has the balls to take people on again even if his crossing is still shite.
 
His delivery today was no better than Shaw on the opposite flank, but he looked far more likely to beat his man which has never been a given when we're talking about ol' Tony V. Fair play.
 
He's going past players again so that's not bad but the rest is still shite. He's set the bar so very low though that some will mistake that for a good performance.
 
The only player driving us forward for most of the game. Rafael would be getting praised for a performance like that.
 
Combination of power and speed with aggression suited for proper Man United player.

Miles better than Di Maria and Mata, today. Feckin class above.
 
I don't understand Valencia. It's like he plays crap to troll us all, then occasionally reveals he actually can beat his man or put in a decent cross once every few games, before putting in tumescent performances again.

He's been steady as a wing back, and probably prefer him to Rafa in this formation, but if he actually started pulling his finger out more often you'd have to think we would have a heck of a wing partnership with Di Maria and him and could start playing with some width again.
 
Thought he was our best player today along with Blind, crosses not always there but he got past his man a few times and set up a few chances. Nobody else had any idea what to do apart from give it to him out on the right when we were counter attacking in the second half.
 
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