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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 29
- Clean sheets
- 8
- Goals
- 4
- Assists
- 0
- Yellow cards
- 3
- Red cards
- 1
Not much worse than the others in our team, and certainly doesn't mean he's a shit defender
The difference between "being our best CB" and "being shit" is minimal. Just look at the rest of our defence. Morons and injury prones galore.
The first one is an automatic yellow! He's an idiot.
A bit uncharacteristic of Smalling. Usually comes across as a calm and intelligent chap. Dunno what got into his head today. Two really silly yellows.
They were both yellows for different reasons obviously. He knew exactly what he was doing on the first one.
We may not have any choice.
Has he got twitter? Could get messy.
He's cost us. City were there for the taking today.
Yep, they've not been all that impressive. Perhaps they wouldn't have been so nervy without a lead, but this was certainly a winnable game if we hadn't been a man down.
Cost us three points. Would have probably won with 11 men. Should be docked 3 months wages.
? We were never going to win this one.
With 11-men, there's a good chance we could have.
Cheers Chris.
Aye. We definitely had a great chance of winning today if it wasn't for his utter stupidity.
Naah, City should be 2-0 up by half time, we didnt create one decent chance in the first half.
I hope he gets sold for this.
Does he feck.
Don't Think he has the intelligence to remember a password.
Hewent back to his pre Fulham days
Yeah, they should have been, but they weren't. I'm not saying we would have won, but it was certainly a winnable game.
feck right off smalling. I hope he gets sold. fecking idiot.
He cost us the game. We'd have competed had we remained at 11 but his sending off broke our entire game plan.
Could have sworn it was 0-0 at halftime...
Along with Jones/Blackett? All have had terrible brainfarts.
Based on what ? Didn't DDG save us several times before the red card ?
What a fecking shame. Did well against Chelsea and was doing well against City before he decided to act like a complete idiot.
he made a very silly mistake. think we would have won this otherwise.
but we did play well.
but we did play well.
City were there for the taking and a win today would have been a massive confidence boost for the team but it was all ruined by the stupidity of one man.
Cheers lad your idiotic sending off cost us the win today.
Get rid in January never being good enough for United
Get rid in January never being good enough for United
Yeah but they should be, we were quite lucky and City definitely the better/more dangerous team. Us keeping that useless possession doesnt make it a winnable game.
Between him and Evans, I'm not sure who I want to see on the pitch less for us. Put him as a waiter in the Red Cafe.
Yes, but it was still 0-0. Again, I'm not saying we would've won, but we could have stood a better chance of doing so.
Ultimately cost us the game. We arguably had a decent hold on the game before he went off and we weren't bad for the last quarter of the game either - which would have been a whole lost easier with 11.
Another defender having a shocker away from home and causing unnecessary problems.
At least they're pretty much all injured/suspended now. Carrick and McNair will probably be a better pairing for the foreseeable future.
Another defender having a shocker away from home and causing unnecessary problems.
At least they're pretty much all injured/suspended now. Carrick and McNair will probably be a better pairing for the foreseeable future.
Big derby game, a rush of blood, and silly yellow cards. It happens when emotions run high. Positive is that we held off a potentially rampant City team to 1-0 and almost came back towards the end. Things are certainly looking up.
And you would be right in doing so. I think we would have lost either way, Smalling's red card just made it obvious.
Not to this extent. fecking idiotic for both yellow cards. You don't expect kids to do something that stupid. One of the most idiotic 2 yellow cards I've seen in my life, if not the worst.
Stupid first yellow, correct second, so all in all a deserved and stupid sending off. The annoying part is that Balotelli does this every other match and never gets booked for it. Zabaleta should have had a second yellow, instead he doesn't get a yellow for that first offense, which was twice as bad as what Blind was similarly booked for.
Uncharacteristic of Smalling this, so let's hope he doesn't commit to such stupid bookings again. He's been good lately, so it will be a loss. Both McNair and Carrick played very well though.
Uncharacteristic of Smalling this, so let's hope he doesn't commit to such stupid bookings again. He's been good lately, so it will be a loss. Both McNair and Carrick played very well though.
See comments like this take away so much from what we actually did. LvG got it spot on by having Rooney drop into midfield. For the opening 20 City didnt know how to keep up and we should have been more threatening with our attacks (story of the season).
City didnt surrender possession because they wanted us to have it they tactically couldn't cope. After 20 min they were at home so its naive to think they wouldn't turn it on at some stage. IMO Smalling cost us today, 11vs11 i dont think they would have got that space on the right flank to pull it back for them to score.