David de Gea | 2011-14 Performances

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marcus agrippa said:
Ralph's a well-known (to me at least!) culprit when it comes to this. He's taken a dislike to DDG, and I doubt any evidence will moderate him. I once had to do a blow-by-blow analysis of a match by De Gea (against Spurs, I believe) just to show how woefully short of the facts he was, but that doesn't stop him..
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Haha, I've only just seen this.

What actually happened was that you posted huge amounts of drivel including the odd misplaced latin phrase (presumably in order to try and impress someone) which no-one (myself included) could be bothered to read and then everyone laughed at you. :D
 
De Gea errors - this is not a lynch job on De gea - I am just thinking is there a pattern to the goals he has let in. As I pointed out in a previous post he keeps differently to the tradional way in one on one situations leading to a higher percentage of goals through his legs. As I also pointed out there are benefits and drawbacks with either approach.

Community Shield - bad positioning too far off his line backtracking - Goal
West Brom - let a tame shot through - dived over the ball - Goal
Tottenham - Flapped at a cross and Defoe hit the loose ball against the post
City - Poor positioning for Dzeko shot at his near post - Goal
Benfica - Poor kick out and the attacker steamed through to cross - Goal
Basel - kicked his leg out for a cross which he should have claimed - goal
Blackburn - very poor attempt at taking a cross - Goal
Liverpool - Poor positioning on the corner - not totally his fault but too busy pushing players away - Goal

Goals through his legs
Arsenal - First goal by walcott
City - Silva final goal
Blackburn - Yakubu second goal
 
He has had a catalogue of errors. Not sure why everyone is so uppity when it comes to pointing it out.

He has made a poor start to his career at the club and looks a different keeper to the one we saw in the summer and last season.

Not writing him off by any means. He can only improve
 
Manchester United: David De Gea gets chance to prove himself number one keeper against Chelsea - News - MirrorFootball.co.uk

David De Gea will be offered an instant chance to prove himself as Manchester United's number one keeper this weekend.

The under-fire Spaniard has recovered from the illness and injury that kept him out of the midweek win over Stoke.

And with rival Anders Lindegaard ruled out for a month by an ankle injury, boss Sir Alex Ferguson will offer a powerful show of faith in the youngster by pitching him in at Chelsea on Sunday.

De Gea was poorly before Tuesday night's match at Old Trafford, but afterwards Fergie said the player was also suffering from a slight strain.


That has now cleared up, leaving the manager with a choice between £20million summer signing De Gea, and his two understudies - 21-year- old Ben Amos, who kept a clean sheet against Stoke, and veteran Tomasz Kuszczak.

Ferguson still believes in the Spaniard as his long-term number one, and will put back in at Stamford Bridge with the message to prove it.

De Gea isn't the only United player in line return at the weekend.

Wayne Rooney was running at the training ground on Thursday and should start the game, while Nani and Ashley Young could be in contention to play some part after returning to training following injury.
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Isn't Drogba available for this game?...Anyway, if De Gea starts I won't be confident about getting a win. He is full of errors, breeds uncertainty and panic in the defence in some situations and oppositions are aware of it.
 
giggs-beckham said:
Isn't Drogba available for this game?...Anyway, if De Gea starts I won't be confident about getting a win. He is full of errors, breeds uncertainty and panic in the defence in some situations and oppositions are aware of it.
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Is that really necessary?
 
Escobar said:
Is that really necessary?
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Yes, it is. We're on a Manchester United message board discussing a keeper who has been sub-par at best, cost 20 million, arguably got us knocked out of 2 competitions this year. I'll support the lad, obviously, but at this stage people are fully right to have their reservations when they see his name on the teamsheet. It's up to him to prove otherwise.
 
De Gea needs to start every game IMO. Needs to come to terms with the style of English football, repeatedly dropping him is just making it more difficult for him.
 
Reapersoul20 said:
Yes, it is. We're on a Manchester United message board discussing a keeper who has been sub-par at best, cost 20 million, arguably got us knocked out of 2 competitions this year. I'll support the lad, obviously, but at this stage people are fully right to have their reservations when they see his name on the teamsheet. It's up to him to prove otherwise.
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Please, tell me you're not serious.
 
Reapersoul20 said:
Yes, it is. We're on a Manchester United message board discussing a keeper who has been sub-par at best, cost 20 million, arguably got us knocked out of 2 competitions this year. I'll support the lad, obviously, but at this stage people are fully right to have their reservations when they see his name on the teamsheet. It's up to him to prove otherwise.
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He has fantastic potential. No one is argueing that he has been perfect by anymeans, but to claim he has knocked us out of two competitions is bs. The whole team was poor in the CL. Also a lot of people overlook the times he has saved us this season.
 
Lets all blame him for global warming too while we're at it
 
I don't know what the fuss is about. He's 21 years old, for a goalkeeper at a club like ours that is an enormous amount of pressure. He has made mistakes and he is going to make a lot more in the coming years, but it will be worth it in the long run.
 
Trouble is, he's now going to have to deal with people scrutinizing his every move. The smallest misjudgement will be made out to be a massive blunder, and he'll get blamed for every match we doesn't win.

But that's part and parcel of being a United-goalkeeper, and he knows it. Let's hope Sir Alex sticks with him, because I think it's plain to see that he's got all the attributes needed to be a top, top goalie.
 
People expect David de Gea to become as good as Edwin van der Sar was. In his first season.

They don't understand he was one of the best goalkeepers in history, they don't understand de Gea is 21 and came here from Spain. They see there's no van der Sar in goal anymore and they see £18m.
 
I agree he has a lot of potential. I agree he is young and should be given a string of games.

I don't agree with people thinking that the sun shines out of his arse and that he should be immune to criticism.

So far he has gotten several chances and he has, for the vast majority of the time been quite unimpressive - especially in higher profile games like Liverpool in the cup and Basel in the CL (so yes, it is fecking obviously arguable that he caused our exit from those competitions - though I agree it's more a case of the whole team being shit on those occasions and that we should have signed Freddie Kanoute instead of Rooney).

Let's take off the red-tinted spectacles for a second here. He is young. He has potential. He could go on to be one of the goalkeeping greats. However, at the moment, on current form, he is a liability and his inconsistencies and nervousness easily propagate throughout our younger defence. It is reasonable for any fan to say that they are nervous to see his name on the team sheet because he has quite simply not been performing to a standard United can live with.
 
I think it will take til he is about 24 to really see the best of him.
 
Reapersoul20 said:
Yes, it is. We're on a Manchester United message board discussing a keeper who has been sub-par at best, cost 20 million, arguably got us knocked out of 2 competitions this year. I'll support the lad, obviously, but at this stage people are fully right to have their reservations when they see his name on the teamsheet. It's up to him to prove otherwise.
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No he fecking didn't.
 
Well presuming Fergie signed him with as a future world class number one goalkeeper then yes, i'd assume so. If all the fans turn on him after a few dodgy games after being left out the side for ages then he'll probably be off before he gets a proper chance.
 
Reapersoul20 said:
Look at the word before the bold there...

It's been alluded to several times here.
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I saw the word, and i still dont see how anyone can come to that conclusion? We blew a 2-0 lead ahead of Basle at home but i'm sure that was down to him too wasnt it? No defenders attempting to clear a cross which left Agger with a free header? Yeah he could have stayed on his line, probably should have but it doesn't mean the defenders shouldn't be doing their jobs. Rooney and several other players missed sitters in the champions league, if only we looked at those missed chances, shuffling the team too much and maybe the real reasons (we were not good enough) that we did not qualify.
 
I think Vidic got us knocked out of 2 competitions.

Why did he injure himself against Basel?! And that meant he couldn't play at Anfield on Sunday, so that's two. Two competitions. Thanks, captain.
 
Orton said:
I saw the word, and i still dont see how anyone can come to that conclusion? We blew a 2-0 lead ahead of Basle at home but i'm sure that was down to him too wasnt it? No defenders attempting to clear a cross which left Agger with a free header? Yeah he could have stayed on his line, probably should have but it doesn't mean the defenders shouldn't be doing their jobs. Rooney and several other players missed sitters in the champions league, if only we looked at those missed chances, shuffling the team too much and maybe the real reasons (we were not good enough) that we did not qualify.
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Well if you saw the word you should realise that I'm not fecking arguing that point! He was fairly shit in those games and many people on the caf have claimed he caused those losses, that is my only point. Though I do think his performance was a contributing factor, it doesn't mean he was solely responsible.

He has not been good so far though. Teams seek to exploit him and see him as a weakness. So far it has worked.
 
I think he'll play a blinder at Chelsea, and win us the match. He's definately got it in his locker.

That's probably the most promising sign by far, he's shown several times that he is a real match winner in terms of saves in high pressure games.
 
Reapersoul20 said:
Well if you saw the word you should realise that I'm not fecking arguing that point! He was fairly shit in those games and many people on the caf have claimed he caused those losses, that is my only point. Though I do think his performance was a contributing factor, it doesn't mean he was solely responsible.

He has not been good so far though. Teams seek to exploit him and see him as a weakness. So far it has worked.
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Which is what i mean by fans turning on him, they will look to blame him for pretty much every goal we concede, in the games he plays which seems to be the case nowadays.
 
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