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2014-15 Performances

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6.2 Season Average Rating
Appearances
29
Clean sheets
9
Goals
2
Assists
3
Yellow cards
4
West Brom 2:2 Man Utd
I love watching him, great player. I think he could be world class defensive midfielder if he was bit higher. He is not weak, it's just that he could be winning more air duels if he was bit higher, or ground tackles if he had bit longer legs.
 
Amar__ said:
I love watching him, great player. I think he could be world class defensive midfielder if he was bit higher. He is not weak, it's just that he could be winning more air duels if he was bit higher, or ground tackles if he had bit longer legs.
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Its his lack of pace that really is the issue.

He's a quality player with a good brain, but look at him for their goal; looks like he's running in treacle.
 
NinjaFletch said:
Its his lack of pace that really is the issue.

He's a quality player with a good brain, but look at him for their goal; looks like he's running in treacle.
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Yeah, I think bit longer legs could help him there too :lol: . He is quite qick with his feet and acceleration, but isn't the fastest on long runs.
 
He's been our best player tonight so far - 52nd minute.
 
I don't buy all this praise Blind is getting for tonight's game. He's a defensive midfielder and we have been defensively suspect again tonight down the middle very similar to the Leicester game.
 
Deserved that goal. Our best player tonight by a wide margin.
 
Apart from the goal he didn't handle Sessègnon at all. Ran him ragged.

Put him on Toure and he'll get bullied.
 
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Kinda reminds me of Arteta.

Nice and tidy on the ball but just not imposing enough to be that anchor in front of the defence.
 
Wow I thought he was phenomenal tonight. His work rate and tenacity is fantastic.
 
What on earth he could have done better defensively, they barely created any chances apart from goals?
Nice goal btw, altoough he was quite invisible for half an hour in second half. But still, our best player IMO tonight.
 
Great on the ball. Offers absolutely no defensive shield whatsoever off it.

That would be my analysis of him so far.
 
Thought Alan Smith was way too harsh on him, there was little support from the rest of the midfield.

We need to pair him up with Carrick
 
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I cant understand those that say he doesnt do enough defensively. You see him putting out fires all over the pitch, nicking the ball away, intercepting passes, always available for the pass and looking to play it forward. I mean what more can you ask of the guy?!

So Jones rushes out to press the midfield and one of their players exploits the space, scores and Blind should have done better? Really?
 
Way too much is asked of him defensively and it shows. He can't do much more himself.

Pound for pound I think he's the shining light this summer but in a 1 striker formation, he needs someone alongside him to offer a bit more steal. If we're going gung-ho, then sure leave him there alone - he's capable. The problem tonight was we were just too deep as a unit but there just wasn't enough pressure from the players further forward.

Nice goal though, one of them had to go in eventually.
 
Our best player, probably. Not sure what Alan Smith was wittering on about, Sessengon didn't do a great deal aside from the goal, which had little to do with Blind.

His ball retention is very impressive.
 
I think he could've done better defensively. Had he not scored the goal he would've had an average game imo.
 
I disagree that he had a bad game, Sessengon's goal was Shaw and Rojo's mistake. Blind could not have closed him down, he was not fast enough. Apart from that he did well, and his goal was fantastic. Put in a hell of a physical challenge which I have not seen from him recently, stood up to that cnut Morrison for sure.
 
Really nicely taken goal. A shame his other efforts were so poor

Did a decent job defensively, but not a good one. He made 4 tackles, 2 interceptions and 3 clearances which is a very fine workload for a player in his position however Sessegnon enjoyed himself way too much and was a constant threat to us in areas Blind is most responsible for. Blind was unable to get a handle on him in particular.
 
Amar__ said:
I love watching him, great player. I think he could be world class defensive midfielder if he was bit higher. He is not weak, it's just that he could be winning more air duels if he was bit higher, or ground tackles if he had bit longer legs.
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He could get a *cough* prescription that could fix that. He is Blind, after all. Might be glaucoma.
 
He really reminds me a bit of Busquets. Not as good - obviously - but I think that he shares some of Busquet's good charachteristics. Always looking for the ball, always free to find him, always his head is up looking on the pitch. He slipped twice in space of five minutes but otherwise he was by far our best player tonight. Also, the goal was very good.
 
Basically played as a one man midfielder with five forwards to aim for. Fellaini occasionally dropped in line with him, but otherwise he was there with acres of space in front of him and nobody to take the ball and turn.

As for Blind as a player - I still don't know what to make of him.
I appreciate he's an improvement on what we've had, he's calm and has the positional sense that Cleverley lacked, but I'm still not that convinced by him yet.
Still need to see more of him.
 
Revan said:
He really reminds me a bit of Busquets. Not as good - obviously - but I think that he shares some of Busquet's good charachteristics. Always looking for the ball, always free to find him, always his head is up looking on the pitch. He slipped twice in space of five minutes but otherwise he was by far our best player tonight. Also, the goal was very good.
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He can develop into that, Blind is such a smart player, he plays it simple and is exactly what United needs, he'll never get the praise he deserves.
 
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