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2015-16 Performances

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5.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
22
Clean sheets
10
Goals
0
Assists
4
Yellow cards
1
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For all his faults, I would actually be fine with him if he could at least put decent cross from time to time. It's really shame, because he wouldn't be that bad if he knew how to do something simple as that.
 
I thought I saw him try and beat his man at one point. Couldn't believe it. Turned out it was Lingard though.
 
Nobody would even be commenting on his performance if it weren't Valencia. He's been one of our better players.
 
Sigma said:
No one mentioning Valencia saved Jones twice in the space of about 5 seconds.
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That was a 'save' about as much as Jones saved him after he got completely mugged by Musa.
 
He's actually been better than usual tonight in my opinion. Of course doing nothing attacking wise but we've looked assured defensively down the right which is miraculous for him. Probably one of our better players in that half as depressing as that is.
 
That's what I'm talking about!! Fantastic ball in!
 
acnumber9 said:
It's funny how this thread is so much quieter when he does well.
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Presumably because it's, you know, just after the game. I'm often a critic of him, but I'm happy to admit he showed plenty of promising signs tonight and made a good cross for the goal. I'm sure he'll be getting plenty of praise from others as well.
 
Sorry I'm going to cause a lot of upset here. But the cross was not close to "fantastic" or "really good". The only good thing about it was that it made it into the opposition box and found a friendly player. It was lofted and had no pace on it.It's the lowered standards for him that people raving about it.

Martial's header was what can be called fantastic and really good.
 
Good game. Shame he needs 20 attempts to deliver a good cross.

Still think he's at least as good as Darmian out there.
 
Doesn't always deliver the greatest of balls in, but he's constantly up and down the pitch. Really good performance by Valencia.
 
LeftyBlaster said:
Sorry I'm going to cause a lot of upset here. But the cross was not close to "fantastic" or "really good". The only good thing about it was that it made it into the opposition box and found a friendly player. It was lofted and had no pace on it.It's the lowered standards for him that people raving about it.

Martial's header was what can be called fantastic and really good.
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I think very few people are calling it a genuinely "fantastic" cross. It wasn't out of this world, but it was still a well placed cross which was able to find Martial perfectly. It's a lot more accurate than what Valencia typically produces from his crossing.
 
I hope he hasn't used up his quota of good form in tonight's game only. Darmian is close to a suspension and we'll be needing him again soon.

Classic Valencia 10 mins after the goal though. Fresh from a good cross and high on confidence, he bursts forward and pulls a terrible cross out of the bag. We'll miss him when he's gone.
 
Had a couple of dodgy positional moments defensively but it was his best performance attack-wise in a long time.
 
Walters_19_MuFc said:
Doesn't always deliver the greatest of balls in, but he's constantly up and down the pitch. Really good performance by Valencia.
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Motm. Also, one of his crosses were put perfectly 45 degrees out - why are there no United players attacking that space? Half of Lampard's goals came from exploiting that space. I remember Evra also placing them 45 degrees out, but few United players (bar Scholes) attacked that space, so it's not something new. Look at Arsenal how they cluster they 18 yard box with crosses. We have two men inside the box and none around it. It's not very easy to make good crosses.

Also, people not saying it was a good cross. Seriously - what else is there to moan about, it not being a full moon today?
 
Hes a great player to have, a real soldier, physical monster, top fitness, apart from his blind crosses, I think hes a pretty solid player, most clubs would love to have a player like him
 
Good going forward, same old issues going back the way.

He's guilty of being out of position far too often to be a serious regular at right back here.

Good nonetheless.
 
His (lack of) crossing ability is about the most frustrating thing ever, but he was brilliant today otherwise. Made some good runs and defended well.
 
Kag said:
Good going forward, same old issues going back the way.

He's guilty of being out of position far too often to be a serious regular at right back here.

Good nonetheless.
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He does make it harder to be on the right side centre back as he leaves a lot of space. That said, it isn't down to him being lazy - he sprints up and down like a man possessed. He actually looks livelier as the game progresses - Musa gave him a run for his money in the first half, but in the second half, Valencia ran past him like he wasn't there.
 
He played decent tonight. He didn't attempt to smash every cross along the ground tonight and we actually managed to score from one, hopefully it's a sign of things to come.
 
Almost voted for him as MOTM but Herrera prevailed at the end. Going forward he showed more than a glimpse of the old Valencia.
 
He was much improved on his usual level, but i didn't think it was anything drastically brilliant. A nice run and cross for the goal, but other than that he still frustrated at times.
 
I thought he was quite good.
 
Cheesy said:
Presumably because it's, you know, just after the game. I'm often a critic of him, but I'm happy to admit he showed plenty of promising signs tonight and made a good cross for the goal. I'm sure he'll be getting plenty of praise from others as well.
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If he'd been shit nobody would've waited for the game to end so that's nothing to do with it.
 
Amar__ said:
For all his faults, I would actually be fine with him if he could at least put decent cross from time to time. It's really shame, because he wouldn't be that bad if he knew how to do something simple as that.
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well he had an assist for our only goal...
 
He was good defensively because they didn’t push us much. He is a great fullback when he has to chase a player, it works against teams that sit back and want to counter us. I don’t trust him against better teams.

I don’t understand why he is getting so much praise though to be honest. Clearly the opposition tactic is to leave him space on the right because he needs 10 chances (at least) to put in a good cross (and it takes a great header to score, like the one from Martial).

I hope we stick to Darmian. With Lingard getting more playing time (and doing a lot of tracking back), I hope Darmian will be more attacking too.

a_devil_inside said:
Probably my 2nd best player behind Herrera, did ok going forward.
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You think he was better than Schneiderlin and Martial?
 
Done well defensively and was quick to get involved in attacks.

Looked even more menacing when Martial moved over to his side. There seemed to be a nice fluidity to their link up.
 
a_devil_inside said:
Yeah, he seemed to be getting quite a bit of the ball and trying to get some attacks going.
Schneiderlin was good too
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Not sure who are you talking about?
Martial had been trying for 75 minutes and he was doubled on the left with Rojo not helping at all. Valencia had acres of space on the right plus Lingard and Herrera.
 
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