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2023-24 Performances

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5.5 Season Average Rating
Appearances
50
Clean sheets
12
Goals
3
Assists
5
Yellow cards
7
Red cards
1
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criticalanalysis said:
Again, these are subjective opinions but what you've said about AWB and Darmian is basically blasphemy to me. You say you don't watch much of other players in the league but without being condescending here I'd question how much of Utd have you watched this season or in general?

AWB had a really good debut season and periods of form under Ole but it's clear as day that his overall footballing intelligence is lacking. He's a very capable ball carrier and passer but it's almost always in circumstantial instances i.e when a single opposition player is pressing him, he has an 'easy' outlet to pass or when the ball/play is in movement or transition as he has good instinctive awareness. However, when the ball is set, when there are pressing traps, when the time calls for more nuance both with (e.g passing between lines, pass choices, press resistance, angles etc) and off ball (e.g reading off the ball runs, keeping opposition offside, runs off his blind side etc), he is markedly bad. There's not really a debate when it comes to defensive nous or overall consistency over the two imo. I've been impressed with AWB at times and I've kept willing him to find that 'intelligence' but time and time again, he's shown he just doesn't have 'it'. See his part in the Brentford goal for case in point. Now I understand I may be harsh and it's unfair to extrapolate Dalot's form of this year compared to AWB's injury hit seasons of the past 2-3 but Dalot's overall peak and awareness is ahead for me. They're not really comparable at all if you actually want a team to play progressive, attacking and expansive football so for you to personally 'prefer' AWB when you've been criticising Dalot's lack of attacking output and how we are a such a poor team, is a bit contradictory.

Darmian had a good period of initial form under LVG and I think had good defensive and even some attacking instincts. It's stereotypical to say but he just had that Italian defensive reading of the game. You can tell he had some thought and nous to his play but he just wasn't athletic enough to really be dominant or effective on his own terms. He's closer to the Lindelof of right backs and in no way comparable as a 'variant'. It's like saying Lindelof and Van Dijk are similar players because they are both standoffish, are comfortable with the ball and like to read more of the game than make sliding tackles/get really aggressive shoulder to shoulder. On the surface that is true but VVD is twice as athletic (aerially, pace) with a way more composed and stronger mentality to play on his own terms with passing and dominating opponents. The difference between Lindelof to VVD is closer to the gap between Dalot and Darmian than those two are similar imo.

As for Valencia and Rafael, I don't really have a strong opinion because I thought they were both good players in their own times but Dalot is more rounded and therefore I would take him. However, that's unfair to compare as he's come 10 years later playing a much different game i.e playing out from the back, inverted etc.
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Agree. Dalot is one of the few of our players who’d be a certain starter for many other top teams as well. POTY for me.
 
odd flash in pan assist and people are dripping. this prick is not good enough
 
Typical, still no brain or IQ to save his life. Foul the fecker from outside the box if he's beat you. Same mistakes over and over, he'll never learn.
 
Don’t care how many players we have injured, you deserve dropping for that
 
Why not just take the guy out before he got into the box. He has been very consistent this season but then decides to shit the bed now of all times.
 
Desert Eagle said:
For me too before this game. He cost us tonight by being a fecking moron
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The way he was chasing Madueke, I knew he would give away a pen. Similar to how I knew our players were too thick to give a tactical foul to stop that final Chelsea counter.

We are just made up of shite players mostly with an equally shite manager compounding issues.
 
Idiot made it easy not to reverse the decision by doing the "Poor me" routine.

Protest, you stupid feck. Even if do a waist high leaping tackle, protest. Absolute clown.
 
Cutch said:
How quick the caf can turn. Be lads waiting months on that slip over ready to pounce
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Yeah, pathetic reaction towards who has probably been our best player this season after a massive improvement and he's found great consistency as well
 
Becks00 said:
Why not just take the guy out before he got into the box.
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You are right and he tries when he puts his arm on him. But Madueke is fresh off the bench and Dalot has been playing 80 mins against Cole Palmer taking him on. He's tired against a fast and powerful player. He put his arm on him and Madueke was able to push him off and go past. In the end its an unlucky and tired fall that does touch Madueke and its slight but at the speed Madueke is going its maybe enough to go down. I'd call it a 50/50 it wasnt a lot of contact
 
Neville said on Stick to Football recenly that this lad was a contender for POTS.... he's an absolute liability.
 
I sort of always felt that his season was a bit like when Willian shone for Chelsea in their bad seasons under Mourinho and Conte. He still wasn't a particularly great player but stood out and deserved credit for his level not collapsing like the rest of the team. He's not a bad footballer, he's decent technically, but he's very dodgy 1-on-1 defensively and overall is a pretty average player. For a good team he would be one of the worst players (like any of our best players he's miles off his counterparts at the top 3), for us he's probably been our best this season.
 
Some of the clowns here were making posts about worrying Madrid will take him from us after 2 decent games.

Go back to the Champions League games, he was just as bad as Onana.
 
The Mitcher said:
Why do people rate him? He's gash.
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Combination of the fact we've been poor all season, so any player who hasn't been woeful will rated alright and recency bias as he's been one of the better players recently (which doesn't say too much).
He was pretty poor earlier on in the season as well.
Very poor tonight.
 
Shane88 said:
Idiot made it easy not to reverse the decision by doing the "Poor me" routine.

Protest, you stupid feck. Even if do a waist high leaping tackle, protest. Absolute clown.
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This too...just casually accepting.
 
Valencia Shin Crosses said:
No kidding. Has a stinker while playing out of position and all of the sudden it's "he's a loser, will never learn".

Meanwhile Bruno gets afforded entire calendar years of dogshite performances because of a few assists
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He isn't a loser, he's an idiot though and that has always been the case.
 
Becks00 said:
Why not just take the guy out before he got into the box. He has been very consistent this season but then decides to shit the bed now of all times.
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Guy was going nowhere and we had players to cover. He just shat himself.
 
Utterly brain dead.
His brain thinks he's Ronaldo but his feet say Ronald McDonald.
People saying he's out POTY this season... Jesus wept.
 
MyOnlySolskjaer said:
Some of the clowns here were making posts about worrying Madrid will take him from us after 2 decent games.

Go back to the Champions League games, he was just as bad as Onana.
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Hopefully they do take him. But I wouldn’t trust us to replace him
 
I dont blame him too much on the penalty, that can happen to anyone who has been working hard against a player who played as well as Cole and a fast and powerful dribbler like Madueke off the bench

However for the rest of his performance today I think his decision making with his passing was poor. He worked hard and had some success, including a great cross for Fernandes' goal. But he also had some things which need improvement
 
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