Well with 70% passing accuracy today, it was several times.
He had a great game i said.
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 38
- Goals
- 8
- Assists
- 13
- Yellow cards
- 8
- Red cards
- 3
He had a great game i said.
Yeah but he got 3 red cards this season (2 of them undeserved) so all of his previous excellent performances go out the window.
Where are those stats from?
Excellent today, really was. Total class all round midfield performance. A captain's performance you could say.
Yeah he'll win you plenty of games, sometimes almost on his own, but he won't do it consistently enough to challenge for the league and he won't help you grind out performances on a weekly basis. And because everything goes through him when he's off everybody is off.
It's exactly like Gerrard. Liverpool fans worship Gerrard without realising they probably would have won another league or two by now had he gone to Chelsea that summer.
Great performance all round, but there was also some really good dribbling under pressure today. Don't often see that in his game.
I've said it before. Frustrating as he is sometimes (and increasingly so), we would create next to nothing without him right now. Which would be incredibly concerning at a time when we're already not a million miles off relegation...
How people think binning him off is the answer is absolutely beyond me.
How people think binning him off is the answer is absolutely beyond me.
Whoscored.
He had the second lowest passing % behind Hojland.
4 key passes and an assist. It was his best game in over a year I'd say.
Really enjoyed watching him today, Absolutely fantastic performance.
I think the poster you quoted is being harsh, but Bruno did have that stupid Rabona cross attempt in the first half, stupid time to try to pull that off and ended up losing the ball.
Other than that though he was mostly excellent, sure he lost the ball a bit but that'll happen when you're the creative nucleus of the team, the giveaways were forgivable as opposed to the much cheaper losses of possession we can see from him.
Made some poor decisions on passes, but got the ones right that mattered. The little reverse pass to Martinez was lovely and the pass out to Garnacho for the second was decent too.
Overall, he had a pretty good game, would have been my second choice for motm behind Ugarte.
Overall, he had a pretty good game, would have been my second choice for motm behind Ugarte.
on you go. i’m no fecking talking to you. he’s a fecking great player. yous are fecking idiots.
he looks better when he has other players moving and in positions to actually receive a pass, which means he doesn’t have to try and bend the ball two different ways and dip it over three players to land it at the feet of some feckless wonder who’s stood still.
he looks better when he has other players moving and in positions to actually receive a pass, which means he doesn’t have to try and bend the ball two different ways and dip it over three players to land it at the feet of some feckless wonder who’s stood still.
World class. Don’t care what the narrative around him here is. Build the team around him. He has the old school Manchester United mentality.
as with Bruno, this is just complete guesswork.
Yeah or at least a Europa League this season.
He is at his best when the game is chaotic and unpredictable. He has no place in a systems team though.
Bruno plays with his heart rather than his head, for better and worse.
We can't play like chaos every game. At some point we have to pick which type of team we want to be, and have serious discussions about whether he can fit in. He can be either the player we build around, or one of the weakest links.
Bruno plays with his heart rather than his head, for better and worse.
We can't play like chaos every game. At some point we have to pick which type of team we want to be, and have serious discussions about whether he can fit in. He can be either the player we build around, or one of the weakest links.
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That's the Bruno we know from January to April 2020. I was going to say "where the feck has that been the rest of this season?" but it's great to see him say that himself.
Now play like this every God damn week.
Finally a good game!
I hope Bruno is sold in the summer. I doubt it. However, that was one of his better performances vs a top team.
He was still careless on the ball at times and will never be my cup of tea, yet I will give him his props for his physicality/off the ball work today. He won most of his duels.
He was still careless on the ball at times and will never be my cup of tea, yet I will give him his props for his physicality/off the ball work today. He won most of his duels.
Credit where it is due, that was an excellent performance today and one that I’ve been waiting for for a while. Not just the performance but also his leadership was on point.
Keep it up!
Keep it up!
5 more years of Bruno. You're not that cruel, are you?Maybe he's our Robson and we won't win it until he's 36
Yeah that was stupid. At the time I just thought he'd fluffed it on his left but did wonder as the comms were talking about 'trying the spectacular'. That is silly.
That said, I agree entirely with the point that he lost the ball on occasion but that that's the price of doing business when you're a teams creative fulcrum. As you say, he's had games before where he's given the ball away really cheaply but tonight were barely any examples of that.
Come on man... you're only giving our best player of the last seven years four months of top form over his career here?!
And here's me thinking he was being generous.
Well your bizarre take is clear from your posts in this thread
No, it's simply that the above run of form was peak Bruno so far.
He maintained that form for longer than four months, no? He was great pretty much that entire season
Absolutely magnificent today.
Matchday thread was saying he was the worst player on the pitch with Hoijlund before Martinez goal.
He’s our main man. I love him.
He’s our main man. I love him.
Bruno is an acquired taste. Some people love him, others don't.
Busquets might bore some, while other get rock hard.
The duality of man.
Tbf I do think busquets was an absolute worldie as well!
He was fantastic today, so calm and composed. He had a few dribbles where the ballstuck to him like glue
Just take his performances at a face value, he was mostly shite for 18 months now, but today was his best performance in ages, if he can replicate that on a consistent basis I doubt you will see many calling him to be sold. People are silly if they think some take a blind dislike of player simply “because”, I have seen this irrational attachment over the years with other favourites like Rashford, De Gea, McT, Martial, etc. would stink out the place but you still have people spouting rubbish in their defense, this is what riles people up.
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Excellent stuff from him today
Bruno should never play in CM. He loses the ball in very dangerous positions. excellent game today.
Everyone knows Bruno is capable of these performances, the measure is whether he can perform at this level consistently, and be a Captain who leads by example when things don't go to plan rather than be the first to lose his head.
No surprise Bruno looked at his best while the rest of the team actually turned up for once. Being able to concentrate on his own job and having those around him move off the ball makes his life a whole lot easier and there’s no need to force things.
We can look back fondly at his early days here, but it’s no coincidence he was very good during that period while he had an on top form Rashford, Martial, MG and Cavani ahead of him, not to mention players who could actually get the ball to him regularly like Matic and Pogba behind him.
We can look back fondly at his early days here, but it’s no coincidence he was very good during that period while he had an on top form Rashford, Martial, MG and Cavani ahead of him, not to mention players who could actually get the ball to him regularly like Matic and Pogba behind him.
Some of his dribbling impressed me today tbh alongside his usual impressive traits.
And fair play to him, he pretty much admitted he’s been shit for an entire year in his post-match press conference.
And fair play to him, he pretty much admitted he’s been shit for an entire year in his post-match press conference.
Sign him up