He's really coming into the game now. Ireland should really have been sent off. Nobody was catching him.
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 17
- Goals
- 2
- Assists
- 0
- Yellow cards
- 3
Which has squandered two goals for us. Outrageous decision making from both of them. Hope Van Gaal has a chat with them.
Out of curiosity. Which two of our strikers have best partnership?
None of them?
Sadly yes..
Not since we flogged the one striker who looked most capable of forming a partnership with Rooney anyway.
I reckon Rooney and Falcao might be a very good combination. Rooney drops deep whereas Falcao will stay as an out and out number nine.
It will wind up being Falcao and Rooney once everyone is fit.
I love his runs, very breezy and glides past people.
Poor guy can't hit a barn door whilst in the first team.
On another occasion he should've won a penalty and got a red card for Ireland.
He's had one chance really and he created it himself tbf.
Awful decision not to pass to van Persie but greed in a striker isn't the worst thing I suppose
Should've played in RVP but other than that he was good. Has a nice burst of pace.
Meh to him. He shouldn't be keeping Falcao out of the team. I like how quick he is and how well he closes down though.
He did outperform Van Persie indeed.
Strange decision to take him off when the game had opened up and his pace was our main outlet on the break.
Also he needs to play as the main number 9 but RVP stayed central today while he was doing leg work behind.
Nonsense
He's unlucky not to have scored this season already from the few chances we have made for him but the goals will come.Would have do with handling Stoke at set pieces.
Luckily he created something in the second half, otherwise you would see million posts in this thread about how he is not ready for the first team, how he will be sold to a Championship team after a few years etc (just have to look at the match day thread in the first half).
Mate in the first half for Anders miss, RVP took an age to get the ball in position and if he had of been quicker it would have been an easy tap in for Wilson
Don't worry, I was pissed off when they sold Macheda too.
There was enough there to see that the lad has some talent.
His pace and ability to dribble at speed are something we really miss in our 'established' strikers.
His pace and ability to dribble at speed are something we really miss in our 'established' strikers.
Thought he got pushed off the ball far too easily. But he has pace, which is something different to our other strikers.
I think his skill set is brilliant and he'll score a lot of goals due to his pace. He ended brightly, too. He really should have passed the ball to Van Persie, however. You would assume the game would have been over had he done so.
We'd be absolutely livid were it not for Young and De Gea's heroics. I was fuming at the time and still am. There can be no room for that shit in a game like that, fair enough if it's a match like the Hull one but they were threatening.
Doesn't change the fact that Wilson should've passed it to RVP.
He's usually very good in one on ones and at that pace he might not have seen him really. Pretty much he goes head on for goal once he gets going.
On the other hand in the first half RVP was clearly looking across but took ages to not pass to him for a simple tap in.
On the other hand in the first half RVP was clearly looking across but took ages to not pass to him for a simple tap in.
That's rubbish. Wilson should have scored. Where do you get the idea he should have passed to RVP? He was 18 yards from goal with a great opportunity to shoot. It blows my mind you're trying to make out a striker in that position isn't entitled to shoot. 9/10 he would score that but it wasn't to be. It's completely different to the situation in the first half where Robin took an age to get into position to pass it - so much so he had to pass it back to Ander to sky over.
Should've passed to Van Persie.
I thought it was an encouraging game.
Looked nervy at the start, struggled to get into it and was perhaps over-awed a little but grew into it, good couple of runs showing his pace and should have bagged a goal.
Nothing to write home about, but encouraging enough for only his second start.
Looked nervy at the start, struggled to get into it and was perhaps over-awed a little but grew into it, good couple of runs showing his pace and should have bagged a goal.
Nothing to write home about, but encouraging enough for only his second start.
He could've passed to Van Persie but he was well entitled to go for goal himself. He should've scored.
Nice to see someone with a bit of pace playing up top.
Nice to see someone with a bit of pace playing up top.
He had a quiet first half but it's very encouraging the way he played in the second. Some great shows of pace and confidence. I'm not arsed he didn't pass to RVP, as he could just as easily have finished that himself (or RVP could have just as easily missed) and it shows the lads self-confidence which I think he only found in the second half. Mind you, the whole team was playing better for most of the second half, so that obviously helped.
And yet if he did pass it and Van Persie missed you'd all be on here saying how it was an awful decision to pass and he should of had the confidence to take it on himself.
People are so quick to judge and write off players. Inside 45 minutes of one single game the usual people were saying he clearly wasn't ready for the first team. The guy actually played well, had some really good moments in the second half and showed good bursts of speed for his chance on goal and the Ireland foul. No complaints for me.
Despite everyone being pleased and getting hyped up with him getting a chance tonight , he did virtually nothing for the entire game apart from run around a lot. Bad decision not to pass to Van Persie and when he took it on himself he should have buried the chance. But, having said all of that: I like him a lot, he clearly has a lot of potential, and I think he has the potential to be great in the future.
Nothing wrong with not passing to RVP, he made himself a great chance, which he should have scored.
RvP wouldn't have passed to him in the same situation.
It was promising but clearly shows a few areas that he needs to work on when playing grown mens football rather than in the reserves
That's incredibly harsh. The bit where he was too selfish he more or less created for himself and he did brilliantly when Ireland should have been sent off for hacking him down.
feck this "Should have passed it" shit, he created the chance and had the confidence to take it on, I want to see that in a striker after RvP's sloth mode malarkey. Wilson was anonymous in the first half but got into it in the second with a couple of really good runs, I wish LvG had left him with Falcao.