Made a mistake, made up for it.
It's a shame but he has been great and will continue to be.
It's a shame but he has been great and will continue to be.
David de Gea | 2011-14 Performances
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He fecked up and it's not "fine". It's stupid not to admit it.
How the feck did he make up for it? United are out.
It is fine. Both the club and De Gea will move on.
He saved two fecking penalties. Not his fault Welbeck and Jones have no composure.
Edwin had his blunders and so did Schmikes. Shit happens, just move on.
Yeh, he let all those penalties in. On a personal level, he did well in the shootout.
Bad mistake and it's cost us although he nearly made up for it.
Still, young and learning and it's such a rare mistake
Still, young and learning and it's such a rare mistake
Seems to be contagious.
Still among our best players, to suggest dropping for that is absurd.
Still among our best players, to suggest dropping for that is absurd.
Our best player all season.
United would have gone through and not needed penalties if he'd not screwed up!
I'm not launching a witch hunt or anything. He's still a top young keeper. But it's sheer fanboy ism to say that his feckup did not matter, that he " made up for it". I doubt he's saying that to himself.
If defending for 60 minutes meant our keeper was "bound to" have gifted them the goal then I wouldve agreed.
We were poor.. We didnt want to concede after trailing from the first leg. We didnt look like conceding.. We defended alright. Carrick went off and they threw everythig forward as the game went on.. We still closed them down and didnt let them have a shot from inside the box. Defended the set pieces/corners well..
Then the keeper has a brain fart and gifts them the goal.
There is no one else to blame for the result.
How about you actually realise that the rest of the team were to blame as well? He fecked up. But I'm raging more at the shit he had in front of him.
He cost us the game, but he's the only player to come off the pitch with any credit in my eyes.
What a time for De Gea to make a mistake, eh? Hope this doesn't mess with his confidence. Everyone else seems to be messed up in the head this season the last thing we need is De Gea second guessing himself.
Uncharacteristic error from him. Provided he doesn't begin to make a habit out of it like when he first joined it shouldn't be a problem.
A keeper of his quality should save that without any problems. A lazy save from a shot with no real pace has cost us.
Big feck up but it happens. Not like it was solely his fault, his team mates were crap today too. Difference is this was unusual for DDG, whereas it isn't for his teammates.
No it doesn't. This is all on De Gea. The team played poorly but he's the one who threw the ball in from a tame shot.
He's an extremely talented keeper but I'm not going to go "Oh well" when he's cost the club a cup final appearance. No point molly-coddling players.
Stupid mistakes but so far, DDG has been one of our better players. In a game where you do feck all and play so poor, you don't deserve to go through
He messed up but you'd swear that was against the run of play with the comments on here. We were dire for more than an hour. Something was bound to give
I've never been a fan of his technique on low shots. Rather than get right down behind it, he just goes down on one knee, like he's more interested in trying to quickly distribute it than he is in making sure he saves it. I've often thought he was spilling ones before that he wasn't, it just doesn't look comfortable.
But feck, what a point in the season to have his biggest brain fart for 3 years.
But feck, what a point in the season to have his biggest brain fart for 3 years.
It was, in the sense that it was their only shot on target. The run of play seemed to be, we give the ball to Sunderland, with a note asking them to kindly hurry up and score a goal - Sunderland prove way to shit to even fashion a chance, we boot it clear and then start the cycle again.
It was a shocker from DDG but typical of the nervous and desperate streak throughout the team when it matters. In my opinion, Hernandez just as much cost us the game with his david bellion first touch, on 117 mins he "passed" the ball back to them trying to control it and they put us under the cosh for the next two minutes, he was awful throughout, thought we were going to need hawkeye for his goal from 3 yards but it went in.
Last mistake he made was against Bayer Leverkusen (our first CL game). He should be doing better, but I want to know why Fletcher/Welbeck didn't go out much quicker. It was shocking. For what it's worth, I think De Gea has looked better overall than last season (at the same stage). He's making less mistakes and looks more confident. Harsh to blame him.
What is the alternative? It will and should be forgotten about in the morning. I'm not making excuses for him, he fecked up, but there's no point dragging it out.
Keepers make cock ups, the key thing is not to let it get to you in the next game and so on. The great thing about De Gea is that he has a great mentality to step from what was a horrible error.
And he did his best to atone for it. If 2 out of Welbeck, Januzaj, Rafael and Jones had scored we would have been in the final largely down to De Gea.
And he did his best to atone for it. If 2 out of Welbeck, Januzaj, Rafael and Jones had scored we would have been in the final largely down to De Gea.
I like De Gea a lot, think he's probably the best keeper in the league but we can't have it both ways. This forum went months with Joe Hart making errors and saying "If that was De Gea...." and when Hart finally got stick it eventually died down. It works both ways, if that was City vs Sunderland and Hart did that he'd be SLATED on here, regardless of previous performances. De Gea fecked up tonight, yeah he did well in the penalty shoot out but he still fecked up. I'm sure he'll get over it.
Sunderland always looked dangerous but that doesn't really excuse the error, it was a basic save and he didn't make it.
It's quite natural we'll slate our oppo's goalkeeper though, isn't it ?
It's just a shame because consistently he's been our best player this season I feel, and his overall performances will be clouded by such shit sadly.
Made his first mistake in like a year... shit happens. Still a world class keeper, saved 2 pens as well in the shootout. It was 100% the fault of our outfield players in the match that had them pin us back all game anyways and for our players not knowing how to strike a ball.
Nah, it's not comparable to Hart at all because De Gea isn't making mistakes frequently. De Gea's last mistake was back in September against Bayer Leverkusen. He's had a very good season overall and he seems to have improved more on commanding his area. He's one of the few players in our team that hasn't disappointed me this season.
Charleysurf having a melt down. Wise the feck up..he made a mistake it happens the lad is going to be the best keeper in the world in a few years
Of course I don't disagree people will have a certain amount of bias towards our own players and that is natural, it'll be the same as any other club. City will be bias towards Hart or Toure the same as we are to De Gea or Januzaj (I couldn't think of a centre midfielder we've got to compare to Toure without sounding like I was taking the piss
) but he's not against criticism, he mad a mistake...if he didn't make it we'd be in a Carling Cup Final by now. Yes he saved a few penalties but that wouldn't of been an issue if he didn't make the mistake and therefore he shouldn't avoid criticism. Again I rate him highly, but if he makes a mistake it has to be brought upon.I don't disagree with you about how good he's been, he's been our player of the year this year but if he makes a mistake and people pick up on it my point is we can't slate them. What are they meant to do? It was an obvious mistake so he's going to get criticised. If Valencia turned round and booted the ball in our net under little to no pressure I doubt people would just brush over it as "unlucky" it was clumsy and lazy. De Gea was under no pressure at all really and made a mistake, people have to talk about it, there's no other choice.
Again, I rate him highly and would hate him to get slated for ages and I don't think our own fans will, we were chanting his name 2 minutes later, but the press etc will pick up on it and it's hard to argue against them if they do due to the size of the error.
Yeah, the key is how he reacts from here. If he does a Hart and completely goes to shit then that's obviously a problem, but he needs to move on quickly. Mark of a great keeper.
Wont be long till the so called experts in the media come out saying he's always been a risk and he needs replacing again
Absolutely this. Things like that can happen to the best, most experienced keepers - just forget it and move on.
I'm not joking when I say he should have been one of our pen takers. You should base your pen takers on pure technique, and he's one of the best technically in the squad.
By saying that then you take all responsibility away from the rest of the players!
Where were they for the 1st leg....where were they for the 120 mins of this game. They did not do enough to go through simple as that.
Yes he made a mistake but the responsibility lies with every single player out there who didn't perform well enough. And there were many!
Ridiculous to say that it is entirely his fault!
He's attention-seeking. He's bleating on about our apparent popular players - Rafael, Kagawa, De Gea - in some weird, unnecessary justification of our manager. Rafael and Kagawa should be sold after tonight, apparently.
He's already one of the best. One clanger and suddenly he's a liability in the eyes of some. Most of team stank tonight so I'm not going to single out a goalie who has saved our necks umpteen times already this season.
We should be grateful that he's remained so consistent in comparison to our outfield players all season. A blunder was probably due and it just sums up our luck that this was the time for it. We were likely to win the tie otherwise, but it really should have been settled sooner. Our defence and keeper can't keep bailing out the attacks for much longer. They need to start getting us the goals we need. As long as it doesn't affect his good form we can brush this aside.
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