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2014-15 Performances

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6.3 Season Average Rating
Appearances
29
Clean sheets
9
Goals
2
Assists
6
Yellow cards
5
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He's useless. The fact he's looked quite dangerous shows how shit the others have been.

Used to be very direct and dangerous at Villa. After his first 3-4 games here, he's become utterly useless except the odd game.
 
Why doesnt he look up? Its always about crossing in supposed dangerous positions with him. Hasnt been poor but can do much better when he gets into good positions.
 
MoneyMay said:
I thought he was our best attacking player in that half, by far. He's had a good game IMO.
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Why? because he beat his man a few times?

That means nothing if you then act like a schoolboy and not look up before making your next move. If that's a good game from Young, well then all the more reason to see the back of him in the summer. Not good enough.
 
evra said:
He is a winger who can't cross the ball and does nothing except surrender possession.
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Well that simply isn't true. He's put in a couple of good balls into the box. He's been uninvolved since moving to the left.
 
He was ok. But his constant attempt at dribbling (if you can call that) by cutting in, then going out, then cutting back in again and going out AGAIN a million times over before he crosses does my head in!
 
At least he puts in some decent balls into the box unlike Valencia
 
Why are wentaking this "why doesn't he look up" issue to a whole new level? Lot of worldclass wingers are accustomed to keeping their eye on the ball. It is different for different players, has more to do with instincts than anything.
 
Shark22 said:
Why? because he beat his man a few times?

That means nothing if you then act like a schoolboy and not look up before making your next move. If that's a good game from Young, well then all the more reason to see the back of him in the summer. Not good enough.
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No. IMO he's put in a couple of good crosses into the box. He also started our move leading up to the Nani shot. Note that I did say he's been good, and I think that's a fair assessment of his performance. The one thing that is disappointing is his inability to look up in key situations. To be fair to him, however, he's put in a better performance than most of our players.
 
MoneyMay said:
Well that simply isn't true. He's put in a couple of good balls into the box. He's been uninvolved since moving to the left.
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He puts in crosses in areas rather than try and find the man. There was a move where Hernandez was 10 yards away and just stopped his run but Young didn't bother to look up and pumped the ball straight into the defender.
 
Started brightly, then did what Ashley Young always does, stats to become shit, then eventually disappears.
 
I don't know how he's still wearing our shirt along with other average players when the likes of Veron were pushed out.
 
akash02 said:
At least he puts in some decent balls into the box unlike Valencia
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True, but they're both clearly not good enough. Never mind central midfield, we're in need of a proper winger or two in the summer. Wide men of the class of Sanchez or Di Maria.
 
You absolutely know for certain that he's not good enough. It's not bad luck. It's not because he isn't motivated. He tries. He really does. He's just not good enough.
 
He needs to go.

He's not a bad player as he shown at Villa, but he's just never managed to make the step up to being a United player.
 
I see hip replacement surgery in the future of any fullback who has ever played against Young or Valencia. FIFA should consider introducing thigh and hip pads in addition to shin pads.
 
I like the way he doesn't look up for some crosses, while for others, he stops, points where he's going to kick it, backs up four steps and let's her rip.

Shrewd intelligent player. Build the squad around him.
 
Why Giggs started him over any player in our squad is beyond me.. Terrible player.
 
He's a decent player but he should never play for a top club.
 
He had one of his better performances for us since he arrived and had a good couple of months. That being said, he hardly looks like he is capable of dribbling, passing, or crossing a football, which are all sort of essential to his position and the game as a whole. He was a good player at Villa so he can probably recapture that form at another club but he hasn't got it for us. Needs to go.
 
Thought he put In a couple of good crosses today in the first half. Not his fault he had only one target in the box. Playing someone like Fellaini could have helped get on the end one of those. I thought he was better than nani for whatever that's worth.

Always hard to play a cross based attack against a team packing players in the box. Harsh reminder of the Fulham game.
 
For a while he was looking like our best player on the day. He had more of the ball than most of our team but that end product was pretty poor. So many aimless crosses with very little accuracy ruined his good work. I'm sure the stats will make grim reading for him. Maybe he could have been subbed earlier to try something different, but we let him persist with that ineffective tactic for too long.

He's definitely trying.. to control the ball amongst other things, but games like this show up a lack of quality.
 
He started well and then went back to his old self, though that did seem to happen more so when he went left. Still think he should be the first winger out the door in the summer.
 
It's worrying that the club's official twitter is even putting these quotes out there considering the whole lot of abuse they will receive.
 
I actually got fooled and thought we would see a change in him after that first 20 minutes. But no, he goes back to showing us why he's nowhere near Manchester United quality
 
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