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2019-20 Performances

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5.8 Season Average Rating
Appearances
43
Clean sheets
15
Goals
0
Assists
0
Yellow cards
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He's been protected very well by Maguire, AWB and Shaw so his involvement is way less than before and in those moments, he has been mostly good.

It would be nice if he started improving his composure on the ball, distribution, command of the box and coming off his line...but sigh it may be too late at this stage of his career.
 
criticalanalysis said:
He's been protected very well by Maguire, AWB and Shaw so his involvement is way less than before and in those moments, he has been mostly good.

It would be nice if he started improving his composure on the ball, distribution, command of the box and coming off his line...but sigh it may be too late at this stage of his career.
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You would not swap him for anyone surely. Do you remember the Bartez, Tiabi and Carroll times?
 
MikeeMike said:
You would not swap him for anyone surely. Do you remember the Bartez, Tiabi and Carroll times?
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Last season he was every bit as bad as Bartez and arguably Carroll were, and he pretty much single-handedly cost us top 4 with his mistakes in the last few months of the season. This season he's picked up his game a fair bit but he's still nowhere near as good as he once was.

De Gea was a fantastic goalkeeper, one of the greatest pure shot-stoppers of all time. But even at that time his all-round game wasn't all that good, with his ability under the high ball, distribution and his organisational skills (from what we could see) all being average at best. Because of that there was always a worry about how long he would stay at the top as athleticism and reflexes tend to be some of the earlier things to decline. I don't think anybody expected it to happen quite as early as it appears to have, but it was always a worry.

We're now in a position where we have to decide what to do going forward. Do we think these last 18 months is an outlier and De Gea will get back to his best? Do we think he won't get back to his best but he will at least be able to maintain this seasons form which has generally been an acceptable level? Or do we think this will be as good as he'll be going forward, and he'll slowly decline as he ages over the few seasons? And while we're making those decisions we have to factor in that we have a very promising young keeper on our books who is already arguably outperforming De Gea during this time. Everybody will have their opinion, but it's impossible to know what the right option is for sure.
 
Everton 1:1 Man Utd
Utterly braindead mistake. Hopefully doesn't cost us top 4 again like he did last season.
 
Terrible mistake at the start of the game, good save at the end.

He hasn't been anywhere near as bad this season as he was last season but he still hasn't been good enough. Just when he gets a run of solid clean sheets going, another error.
 
Not good enough. Been saying it for months (possibly longer) but was criticised for it. Time to face facts, if he isn’t making super saves, he is nothing but average in every other aspect of goalkeeping.

Too bad there will be zero takers in the summer as most of Europe realise he isn’t good enough anymore.
 
Massive balls up, followed by point-saving wonder stop. Symbolic of the team really.
 
Terrible error, but did play well after that. Just not seeing us getting top 4 with him giving away goals like last season.
 
Needs dropping. Everton away is a hard enough game without another gift from calamity Dave
 
How many points has he cost us this season? Definitely not the first time today.
 
Maguire shouldnt need to be making as many of those headers as he did.

Teams have such an advantage against us on corners by basically ignoring De Gea.

We need a proactive keeper.
 
Bar the mistake he made some very good saves.

But it was a terrible mistake. Really poor. I can't remember the last time I saw a keeper's clearance blocked and for it go straight in. Keepers at all levels are sharper than that. Just so casual.

Thought he should have come and claimed some of those corners that were being put right on top of him. Maguire and Matic were covering for his lack of aerial presence there.
 
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fecked up and after that saved 3 clear chances. So hardly that he cost us today.
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That's his job. We drew 1-1, so he cost us 2 points.

Plus, going 1-0 down early on like that changes the game entirely.
 
Also how many times did we want to let Everton pump in corners into the 6 yard area before Dave finally decides to come out for them? No wonder we're so shite at set pieces
 
Please stop with this bullshit that he saved us a point at the end. He made one of the worst cock-ups ever seen from a United-goalkeeper which fecked up our gameplan from the first minute of the game.
 
I hate when people use excuse of "making up for things". If we didn't go 1-0 down in third minute because of his stupid mistake it's a completely different game.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
fecked up and after that saved 3 clear chances. So hardly that he cost us today.
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Embarrassing post. It is amazing how people just dig their heels and refuse to admit that they were wrong. He had 1 great save today. That doesn't make up for the idiotic blunder. He is paid to make great saves; he is not paid to essentially kick the ball into his own net.
 
MikeeMike said:
You would not swap him for anyone surely. Do you remember the Bartez, Tiabi and Carroll times?
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My post last night was more 'DDG has needed to do less because he's been less exposed but in those times he has been needed, he's been good'. I was happy to keep him as the no.1.

However, times like today make me question my trust of his ability and 'loyalty' to him. That's why I said, what I said afterwards in that he still needs to improve. He's having a really easy time at the moment because despite all his mistakes, the manager is still backing him up but OGS is not holding him accountable by asking him to clear his box more or be more decisive with his distribution.
 
TheGame said:
Saves at the end? He made a number in the match, including one straight after the mistake.
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All the saves he made could've been made by most good keepers, it shouldn't absolve him of the shocking blunder he made. Or do you think those saves were impossible for another Manchester United keeper?
 
billybee99 said:
Embarrassing post. It is amazing how people just dig their heels and refuse to admit that they were wrong. He had 1 great save today. That doesn't make up for the idiotic blunder. He is paid to make great saves; he is not paid to essentially kick the ball into his own net.
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You are talking about embarrassing posts?? He is still great gk. And yes he had 3 excellent saves.
 
Making saves is his job and the least I'd expect from a 350k pw keeper.

Fact is he threw the game in the first 5 minutes, throwing all preparation out the window.

He cost us top 4 last season.

Most errors leading to goals in the league since the start of last season.

Time to go.
 
Adnan said:
All the saves he made could've been made by most good keepers, it shouldn't absolve him of the shocking blunder he made. Or do you think those saves were impossible for another Manchester United keeper?
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Can you gurantee another keep would have made those saves? No. It was a stupid mistake for the goal but another OTT reaction on here as always.
 
Born2Lose said:
Needs dropping. Everton away is a hard enough game without another gift from calamity Dave
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Ya. Let's put Romero in who botched up that goal in the first leg against Brugge. Let's make an example of de Gea. Keepers make mistakes and their mistakes are always big mistakes. Just look at this Schmeichel video.

 
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