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2015-16 Performances

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5.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
22
Clean sheets
10
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Might be a very unpopular opinion but I think most teams in the world would be happy to have a player like Valencia. Not as a starter for the top teams of course, but he's an excellent squad player to have for any club. Can play both right midfield and right back, and has physical attributes that pretty much nobody in the world can match apart from Ronaldo. He's also always a very reliable option to play to carry the ball forward out of defence and generally relieve pressure. Sure, his final ball has gone to shit the last few years, but he does so much good that it by far outweighs the bad.

I remember when United played against Bayern in the champions league with Moyes, and Pep was saying United still have world class players despite the league position, like Rooney, RvP and Valencia. He's just a very useful player to have, and is almost the perfect partner for Mata on the right because he can completely dominate the right flank if he's on his game, always running forward and always running back, and out muscles just about anyone.

Darmian is a better right back, but if you want someone to man mark and stop an opposing winger, I'd pick Valencia. He shut down Sanchez last season, shut down Hazard in the past, and Sterling was hardly noticed on the weekend. Not to mention that he's great with his overlapping runs. It's just his final ball is so bad that he wastes those positions.
Pogue Mahone said:
Any update on his injury?
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Think Van Gaal said after the game that it was a kick on his foot, so hopefully nothing more then a little knock. Probably won't play in the cup game but will be back for the weekend I'd guess.
 
Sigma said:
I thought something was strange about that, especially as he referred to himself as 'you' :lol:
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On a serious note, we all do have a bit of Antonio Valencia in us. When we don't smile when we should, when we deliberately hit someone in the shins when having a kick about at the park or that one time when we were too busy looking at our phones when walking and hit a lamp post.

Technically we are all him.
 
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Shark said:
On a serious note, we all do have a bit of Antonio Valencia in us. When we don't smile when we should, when we deliberately hit someone in the shins when having a kick about at the park or that one that time when we were too busy looking at our phones when walking and hit a lamp post.

Technically we are all him.
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I thought it was just me :lol:
 
bosnian_red said:
Might be a very unpopular opinion but I think most teams in the world would be happy to have a player like Valencia. Not as a starter for the top teams of course, but he's an excellent squad player to have for any club. Can play both right midfield and right back, and has physical attributes that pretty much nobody in the world can match apart from Ronaldo. He's also always a very reliable option to play to carry the ball forward out of defence and generally relieve pressure. Sure, his final ball has gone to shit the last few years, but he does so much good that it by far outweighs the bad.

I remember when United played against Bayern in the champions league with Moyes, and Pep was saying United still have world class players despite the league position, like Rooney, RvP and Valencia. He's just a very useful player to have, and is almost the perfect partner for Mata on the right because he can completely dominate the right flank if he's on his game, always running forward and always running back, and out muscles just about anyone.

Darmian is a better right back, but if you want someone to man mark and stop an opposing winger, I'd pick Valencia. He shut down Sanchez last season, shut down Hazard in the past, and Sterling was hardly noticed on the weekend. Not to mention that he's great with his overlapping runs. It's just his final ball is so bad that he wastes those positions.

Think Van Gaal said after the game that it was a kick on his foot, so hopefully nothing more then a little knock. Probably won't play in the cup game but will be back for the weekend I'd guess.
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Quality post.

He's such an underrated fullback.
 
Glad people are finally getting off his back. I assume one mistake and the mood will change though.

Was over the moon to see him play well though. As above, such a great player to have in the squad.
 
Eric'sCollar said:
Glad people are finally getting off his back. I assume one mistake and the mood will change though.

Was over the moon to see him play well though. As above, such a great player to have in the squad.
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Yep such a great player to have in the squad. Can't believe the majority saw it as Rafael was superior and should be not sold. Very reliable player Valencia and you never know competition might just spur him on to get back to his best.
 
Uzz said:
He was the weak link in our defence last season when playing as RB. He's looked better in the minutes he's played there this season.

His crossing is appalling though.
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It is annoying, most of the time he doesn't even try to look and aim at player's. When he does, he can deliver decent crosses (Martial's header).
 
K2K said:
Oh no, it never rains but pours for us and Injuries. Anything to do with those screws that were removed?
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The challenge seemed innocuous. It's a real shame. At the moment I have more faith in him against powerful wingers than Darmian. Darmian is new to the league and Young isn't a RB at all. Not ideal.
 
Will be a big loss very underrated part of our team!
 
Metal pins removed from his leg then? If not something else that looks pretty serious has gone down...
 
In some ways I think it is great that so little information is getting out into the media but I would actually prefer a bit more information about player injuries. I mean Valencia has had this operation two weeks after the injury but we still haven't had any word on what exactly happened and how long the recovery is likely to be. Wilson got injured in the first half vs Boro and again no one knows what has happened and where he is. Even Fellaini missed the West Brom game and there was no report about the injury.
 
Had no idea it was a serious injury. Thought he played on through the city match so that's looking like a mistake

Actually quite a big loss IMO
 
Hope to see him back on his feet again soon. Just as people were seeing his value as well. Such bad luck.
 
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