Standards for a good save have slipped so low these days. We shouldn´t expect any worse from a man that is paid for goalkeeping. For me, it was a simple save.
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
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- Clean sheets
- 13
- Goals
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- Assists
- 0
- Yellow cards
- 0
He's a really, really sexy man.
Oh and something about being good at keeping that round thing away from those two sticks and a fish net.
Oh and something about being good at keeping that round thing away from those two sticks and a fish net.
Which one? He made many very good saves.
The last one, from the Cissé header.
Best in the world right now IMO.
That Rivier save was great, but the other one they went on about was expected at the near post.
We'd still be down the table without him.
We'd still be down the table without him.
Stupendously good goalkeeper. We absolutely cannot afford to lose him.
Can we just give him a contract already? He's our player of the season again, what a keeper!
Just brilliant again and again. His game is almost faultless
I expect we've been raining contracts and blank cheques down on him for months. I don't think it's going to happen.
POTY for me. Not only United POTY but league POTY.
He's earned us 10-15 points this season.
He's earned us 10-15 points this season.
Nothing to argue about standards, but have you seen some of his team-mates that are paid for playing football? Praising him is our little bit of silver lining now.
His saves are vital. They aren't always amazing saves, but he makes them and wins us points. I love him. Please don't go Dave 
All hail king Dave .
.I'd be inclined to agree with this. I don't think I've ever seen a goalkeeper save games the way this guy has this season. He's been good for over ten points and that's no exaggeration. Of course, that's his job, but he does it better than any other. He's tremendous.
If, and it's a big IF from me, he does leave within the next couple of years, it will go down as one of the biggest losses alongside Ronaldo this club has faced. He truly is a player that has won us points on his own, even in a game where he was called upon 3 times in big situations, and pulled up the goods every time. POTY 2 times in a row looks a certainty to me.
Unfortunately that will go to the likes of Sanchez off the top of my head, sure there are others more in contention but too tired to think.
Probably Hazard. Sanchez has been poor (tonight aside) for a while now. Hazard has been much more consistent.
If we do get top 4, I reckon he has a good shout at Premier League POTY. Arguably the biggest reason why we're still fighting for top 4.
What a hero! Wouldn't have surprised me if our other useless players managed to get him injured by being unable to defend when he had to make the earlier safe
I've lost count of the amount of MOTM performances he's got this season for us.
I agree. I think de Gea is probably the best keeper in the league (comfortably in the Top 2) but people go way over the top with his saves. If any of them last night results in goals I'd be disappointed. The one at the end was decent but you'd expected any premier league keeper to make it. It wasn't particularly a brilliant effort.
Fighting relegatin.
Being more serious, quite a few points behind Spurs (probably fighting with Stoke for the seventh place).
Am I exageratting to say that De Gea's performances this season have been the best I've ever seen on a season in EPL? I don't remember Schmeichel's early years but I would say the De Gea 14-15 has played better than Van Der Sar for us and Cech for Chelsea.
Should get player of the year award (league POTY) if we get top 4.
Should get player of the year award (league POTY) if we get top 4.
The save from the Cisser header was fairly routine but I thought the one where he injured himself was excellent. I do agree that people get a bit too giddy about every save he makes. It's actually quite a while since he made a really exceptional save. Which is a good thing, as it shows our defence is getting better.
Michael Owen giving him the MOTM award - in a game where Newcastle had just 2 shots on target - was just retarded. He's such an awful pundit. I'm really starting to despise the bland little turd.
Should, but I doubt he will. With the Players' Player of the Year award, voting is done around about now. A goalkeeper hasn't won it since 1978.
Not sure about when the Premier League Player of the Season award is decided. Schmikes was the last goalkeeper to win it in 1996.
Costa, Sanchez or maybe Hazard will probably win them.
United fans on here and Twitter also voted him MotM too though.
He was the only United player who did anything remotely outstanding. The save at the nearpost from very close range was very good, and kept us level. Not a patch on the save against Everton, but still a good one.
It was a bloody awful game. Someone had to get it.
Seriously?! I'd always thought United fans on twitter were a diabolical bunch but I've lost a bit of faith in this place too now. Absolutely ridiculous to make a keeper MOTM after making just two saves in 90 minutes (one of which was fairly routine) You have to wonder if it might have turned out differently had Mickey Owen not put the idea in people's heads.
Mind you, I'm aware that MOTM awards aren't very scientific...
Yet in the article there's no mention of any quotes from van Gaal about de Gea might want to return to Spain and hopes he can be persuaded to stay. Journalism, urgh. He most likely did say it, but why not include the actual quotes? Wouldn't be much effort by Sky to do so.
Did anyone else catch the celebration of LVG and DDG at full time? Was brilliant to see.
Yep! But according to the 100% accurate media, they hadn't talked to each other for months
Who should get it though, everybody was rubbish.
Easily our most important player and quite comfortably the most consistent player this season.
The amount of points he has saved us is incredible.
The amount of points he has saved us is incredible.
Indeed thanks. I know it doesn't prove anything but perhaps dispels the rumours that they hate each other/haven't spoken for weeks or months.
Not true at all.
Fellaini, Hererra, Valencia, Rooney, Blind, Rojo and Evans all played well and were considerably more involved than De Gea. Smalling too, apart from that one brainfart when they should have had a pen.
Actually, you'd be closer to the truth to say everybody played well than to say everybody was rubbish!
Yea a bit harsh on my behalf I guess but then again, who'd be your favourite as you can't really split it between 6 or 7 players.
Yeah, I agree there's no really obvious candidate. One of those games where nobody really stood out. With a gun to my head, I'd probably go for Valencia. His usual reliable self defensively, completed 97% of his passes, put in some decent crosses and a couple of great passes forwards (including the lovely dinked pass to Di Maria which he made an awful hash of right before he got subbed) De Gea wouldn't make the top five. Not because he played badly but because he was basically a spectator. For me, MOTM has to be the player who has the most positive influence on a game. By definition, that excludes a keeper who has just two shots to save in 90 minutes.
Still don't think he'll sign a contract with us again