Jonny Evans | 2011/12 Performances

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Did well with that last header, and the tackle to stop Ruiz or Dembele from running into the box.

Nearly made a massive cock up when he let the ball ball fly over his head which Dempsey just missed.

Overall it was an easy night for him, as Fulham didn't really commit anyone forward - Don't remember De Gea making a save in the second half.

Don't get the player of the season comments, Valencia has been a lot better for one.
 
decorativeed said:
Good again tonight but again - at 1-0 up, I don't want to see a centre back making runs into the opposition box leaving just Ferdinand and Rafael behind him.
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Am fine with it especially in a game like today when they have 11 men behind the ball and we need extra options. Don't think he ever really left us exposed today. Him carrying the ball forward when teams sit back trying to close off options to other players really helps.
 
It was wonderful to see the amount of headers he won last night. Great composure to set up Rooney for the goal. Most players would have tried to score themselves for sure.
 
I do take pride in laughing at the gimps on here who constantly critizised him and said he wasn't good enough for this club.
 
According to whoscored he made 12 clearances (the 2nd most is Rio with 5)... I imagine most of those were with his head too, which is even more impressive when you consider he was largely up against Pogrebnyak and Dempsey, who are both tall and both very good in the air.

Truly excellent performances from the lad. Dare I say it was Vidic-esq...
 
I'm glad Fergie had faith in this lad when so many of you clearly didn't.

Being the one consistant player in a defence chopped and changed all the time - I was impressed with his start to the season, City-game aside. And the last four months his performances have been better and better, to the point of him becoming one of our key players this season.

That game last night was towering.
 
Cina said:
David Luiz, duh.

To be fair, Skrtel has been immense for Pool, so has Coloccini for Newcastle.
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true - but those two don't play in "the biggest match of the other teams week" week in and week out. running out of the tunnel for united is far different than for those two at the clubs they play for.
 
I know he can defend. I was more impressed by his assist for Rooney. How many other people would have just smashed it towards goal. Its the time when you always hear the cliche "it fell to the wrong guy" or "it needed to drop to a striker" or something along the lines of that. When it fell to Evans, his pickout of Rooney was superb. Good finish mind, but Evans is such a smart player and im happy hes proving critics wrong and rising above even some of his fans expectations. Glad hes got a run in the team and is proving his worth.

Its great how people wanted him gone especially as we bought Jones and Smalling recently. Evans has held our defence together and I love the way he gets angry at some of the stupid stuff our team does. Future captain.
 
Sylar said:
I know he can defend. I was more impressed by his assist for Rooney. How many other people would have just smashed it towards goal. Its the time when you always hear the cliche "it fell to the wrong guy" or "it needed to drop to a striker" or something along the lines of that. When it fell to Evans, his pickout of Rooney was superb. Good finish mind, but Evans is such a smart player and im happy hes proving critics wrong and rising above even some of his fans expectations. Glad hes got a run in the team and is proving his worth.

Its great how people wanted him gone especially as we bought Jones and Smalling recently. Evans has held our defence together and I love the way he gets angry at some of the stupid stuff our team does. Future captain.
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Agreed.

Currently it looks like Evans is first choice.And considering the age Jones has a huge task in front of him to get ahead of Evans and Smalling in future if he makes CB as his position.
 
He's definitely done a lot of work in the air. That has been his main weakness in recent times but he's been titanic in that respect of late. He's in some great form now, at a perfect time for our season.
 
Cold_Boy said:
Currently it looks like Evans is first choice.And considering the age Jones has a huge task in front of him to get ahead of Evans and Smalling in future if he makes CB as his position.
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I don't think the pecking order of Evans and Smalling is set in the same way it was for Rio and Vidic both when they were at their peak. Jones can take advantage of injuries I'm sure.
 
mu77 said:
true - but those two don't play in "the biggest match of the other teams week" week in and week out. running out of the tunnel for united is far different than for those two at the clubs they play for.
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So? I'd argue that Skrtel and Coloccini have more work to do in a match then Evans does.

Narrow minded view there.
 
mufcwarm92 said:
He's definitely done a lot of work in the air. That has been his main weakness in recent times but he's been titanic in that respect of late. He's in some great form now, at a perfect time for our season.
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Wanted to mention the same. He has been beaten too often in the air, nowadays, its very hard someone to do so. He added some physical presence to his game
 
vuc said:
So? I'd argue that Skrtel and Coloccini have more work to do in a match then Evans does.

Narrow minded view there.
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I think you're wrong about that vuc. The pressure of playing at the back for United means you have to be a class above the second teir teams defenders, who although they may seem to be having as good a season don't have anything like the attention on their every touch. It's quite a similar situation to GK's who look great at smaller clubs pulling off amazing save after amazing save, but then looking crap at a top club because they make a few mistakes.

FlawlessThaw said:
That's why I don't think it is a mammoth task for Jones who is only 20 as well.
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I think Evans and Smalling are both well in-front at the moment, but isn't it great that we have these three to battle with each other for places and keep each other on their toes!
 
Irwinwastheking said:
I think you're wrong about that vuc. The pressure of playing at the back for United means you have to be a class above the second teir teams defenders, who although they may seem to be having as good a season don't have anything like the attention on their every touch. It's quite a similar situation to GK's who look great at smaller clubs pulling off amazing save after amazing save, but then looking crap at a top club because they make a few mistakes.
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But at the same time you could argue that a player at a lower tier club has more pressure on them because they have more work to do due to the lack of quality around them. I just think it's wrong to dismiss the performances of other players outside the top 4 just because they aren't as big as a club. I think it's a narrow minded view.
 
The last time Evans had a great season, he followed it up by having a thoroughly average one. The injury to vidic and the arrival of Smalling and Jones has definitely pushed Evans to become a much better player, and that's great. Hopefully he won't rest on his laurels and continue working hard.
 
I doubt the reason for him slipping back last season was resting on his laurels or failing to work hard.

I'd imagine it was for the same sort of reasons that young players generally will suffer spells of poor form - a couple of mistakes causing a drop in confidence that becomes self-fuelling, maybe a few niggling injuries, opposition players knowing a bit more about you and targeting your weaknesses, that sort of thing. As well as perhaps some specific factors like Carrick and Evra having poor seasons, meaning he was exposed more often.

More than anythig I suspect it was Chris Smalling turning up and looking like an absolute beast of a player, exceeding him in height, pace and touch. That's bound to affect the confidence of even the most self-assured player.

Jonny seems an exceptionally solid lad, and bright too (9 As/A*s at GCSE). He knows what he has to do to have a chance of being a fixture at Man United. I very much doubt it was a result of character failings.
 
I agree about the strengthened comments without him having noticeably bulked up, he seems finally able to make proper use of his frame this season. I felt most of his problems in the past came from him not seeming assured in challenging with a player, so that at times last season he was straining to get to the ball in front of the attacker, occasionally putting himself off-balance or going for things that weren't there to be won early. Now he seems confident in winning the ball at any point, it's clicked together with the rest of his game which has always been excellent. He's also looking as comfortable bringing the ball out as his ability promised. I agree that hopefully we'll no longer see him be bullied by average strikers.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
If you didn't lose the rag so dramatically every time someone takes the piss chances are it would happen a lot less frequently.
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Bit rich that, coming from a drama queen. If it was banter I wouldn't care, but it's not, so it annoys me. Unless he wants to address what is wrong with my post, he shouldn't even make a comment.
 
Plechazunga said:
He still rushes out and dives through the back of players far too often though. Needs to cut that out. You'd hardly ever see Rio do that.
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Yeah, I think that's what we've seen in terms of progression though, I think he's cut down on that a load this season. It's what I meant in terms of him maybe not being comfortable in taking the ball at the last moment which means challenging with an attacker. He was superb at that against Fulham. A lot of times last season he was left on his backside or giving away many careless fouls for trying to win the ball before it got to him (part of that's probably bad starting position too). I think that's slowly being completely eliminated from his game.
 
Plechazunga said:
I doubt the reason for him slipping back last season was resting on his laurels or failing to work hard.

I'd imagine it was for the same sort of reasons that young players generally will suffer spells of poor form - a couple of mistakes causing a drop in confidence that becomes self-fuelling, maybe a few niggling injuries, opposition players knowing a bit more about you and targeting your weaknesses, that sort of thing. As well as perhaps some specific factors like Carrick and Evra having poor seasons, meaning he was exposed more often.

More than anythig I suspect it was Chris Smalling turning up and looking like an absolute beast of a player, exceeding him in height, pace and touch. That's bound to affect the confidence of even the most self-assured player.

Jonny seems an exceptionally solid lad, and bright too (9 As/A*s at GCSE). He knows what he has to do to have a chance of being a fixture at Man United. I very much doubt it was a result of character failings.
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yeah, that's all great, but here's what the lad had to say about his dip in form...

"If you look back over the years a lot of youngsters have come into the team and had a good season or two, then taken a little dip," Evans said.

"Sometimes you do think you are immune from it and maybe I took my eye off the ball a little bit.

"Maybe I relaxed a bit too much and thought it was going to come as easily as the previous two seasons.

"All of a sudden it hits you. You just have to regroup and have a word with yourself."
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My impression from our record of conceding without Rio in the line-up [now that Vidic is out] is that Rio is still better than Evans, when he's fit of course. You might rather have Evans if you had to choose just because he's always available.
 
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