His worst game for us by a long shot in my opinion. Really does get skinned to easily by a bit of pace and power (Alan Hansen's voice is automatically in my head saying that).
17
Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 29
- Clean sheets
- 9
- Goals
- 2
- Assists
- 3
- Yellow cards
- 4
Getting 'found out', pressure him a bit and he cracks. He can be a decent squad player(yet another expensive one), similar to O'Shea in that he can plug in the cracks and fill in different positions but long term if LVG thinks he is the long term answer to our holding midfield, then its another in the long line of reasons why LVG shouldn't be Manchester United manager.
Judging by how much he picks him though and never subs him regardless of mediocrity in performance, I fear that is the case.
Judging by how much he picks him though and never subs him regardless of mediocrity in performance, I fear that is the case.
He's got Mason, Bentaleb and Dembele next. Every single one is bigger and quicker than him. He's visibly getting slower every game. Really struggled with their pace tonight.
Over all this season he's been better than I thought he'd be, but he's still nothing more than a squad player in the long run.
Over all this season he's been better than I thought he'd be, but he's still nothing more than a squad player in the long run.
Still wont get dropped, probably first name on the team sheet behind RvP. Annoying
Don't rate him. Far too slow for this league, doesn't possess the top quality to make up for it. Nearly gifts a goal at least once a game with his passing.
Will be interesting to see if he starts against Spurs. Going to be very easily overrun if he does I feel. Carrick should be starting next game.
Not impressed with his half arsed challenges. I liked him at the start of the season when he was tenacious and putting in 100% but right now I get the impression that he feels he's made it and doesn't have to try as hard anymore. Hopefully it is tiredness rather than that but I'm a little concerned. Our defence isn't great and the guy who is meant to be protecting it needs to put in more effort than that.
Yeah, Carrick is lightning.
Even today he showed more mobility than Blind did, and has managed to be the anchor in our team for several years.
No, but he's still quicker, and his positioning is better so that he generally doesn't have to make up as much ground as Blind does.
If you think he is more mobile than Blind, then carry on believing that, and I promise that I won't feed your imaginary giraffe.
Of course he will start, him and RVP are LVG's pets, different rules apply to them.
I don't think he has gotten found out, more like a dip in performance. I didn't think he was that great to begin with and he had done better than he had thought but the entire team has been pretty dreadful of late and his own form isn't masking that.
Jesus! Tonight he looked laboured, but Carrick is not quicker than him.
So has Rojo and today Ander was poor. I think the pace of the league is catching up to the new players.
To be fair, it's a bit like arguing what's faster, a cushion or a desk tidy... regardless, I'd say Carrick is marginally quicker, but that's not the main point - the point is that his positioning is better, thus he has less ground to cover (and so can do it quicker)
Blind is looking jaded, and that may be affecting your judgement. Carrick does read the game better though.
Why LVG would think Carrick, Fellaini and Blind would be a match for Arsenal's much quicker midfield, I'll never know.
Herrera was poor going forward, but we lost the midfield with that sub.
Hopefully Dembele doesn't start as he'd eat him up, thankfully even if he does start, his decision making in the final third isn't likey to hurt us all that much.
I think I could skip past the lad
Good first half with some nice passing, but he looks more suited to being one of 2 CM's than the lone DM in bigger games.
Just don't think he's particularly suited to the big games really. He's a very smart player, maybe he's just really out of form, but his lack of mobility and size meant they got through him and Herrera pretty easily. I think there's a lot he can learn from Carrick in terms of positioning himself defensively to make us more secure, as we just seem a lot more secure through the middle with Carrick.
I think his mobility causes less problems than we think it should since his positioning is good. But he does have problems with strength at times that you just don't see from top DM's.
In big games, I could see Blind and another CM in front of the back 4 doing a good job as a double pivot.
Buzzes around all over the place to NOT get stuck in.
Give me Carrick. Sticks to his position and his passing is better.
Give me Carrick. Sticks to his position and his passing is better.
Carrick reads the game better and his passing is far superior to Blind's. The only time that I've liked Blind has been when he's been stuck out on the left side.
He's limited, no denying that but he can be a real credit playing in a system that compensates for his limitations.
Getting criticized but darling Herrera gets an easy pass, he had a good first half and made lots of forward and incisive passes, faded in the second half.
Don't be silly, Ander is the best player in the league and Blind gets bodied by OAPs.
You could see how much better Carrick is when he came on. Better passing range, cooler under pressure and stronger on the ball. I don't think Van Gaal will drop Blind though.
There was one point in the first half when Ozil did his best to lose the ball to Blind but he couldn't even take the gift he was so immobile.
There was one point in the first half when Ozil did his best to lose the ball to Blind but he couldn't even take the gift he was so immobile.
That's the problem. too many players with limitations like wanting to use only one foot.
This level of defensive performance has been the norm for him more often than not this season. But the footballing hipsters tried to pretend he was great defensively and everyone else just couldn't see it. He's not a DM. Full stop.
Should be playing further up the pitch or not at all.
Should be playing further up the pitch or not at all.
Yip agree with most comments . Blind looks decent with time and space but pressed with pace and power and he folds like a pack of cards.
Story of our midfield for so many seasons now.
Which coincided with us losing grip of the game and losing it too, Carrick might be better, but his introduction yesterday didn't tell us that. He was brought on to give us more control of the game, we lost grip in the second half so I don't understand your logic.
I don't see your logic either pal so I guess we are even on that score.
A new scapegoat.
Nothing to do with being a new scapegoat. Every time he's played against someone with a bit of pace and power they bully him. The Caf is only now seeing that.
This sort of post irritates me. If you're allowed to praise a player after a good performance (and lots have - just look back through this thread) then you can also criticize after a bad performance. Besides that, has anyone directly blamed him for yesterdays result? You need to go to the Valencia thread for that...
so i guess i'm not the only one who has seen that his weaknesses seem to be his lack of speed and power and that he gets bullied in games
Not true at all. We immediately looked a lot more solid at the back in the 2nd half with Carrick in the team. It was only after we conceded that we begun to lose control.
I personally thought we lost the initiative, Arsneal were very sloppy on the ball rather than us being more solid. Also Blind and Smalling were not giving up posession as much as in the first half.