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2014-15 Performances

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4.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
17
Clean sheets
9
Goals
0
Assists
0
Yellow cards
1
jonny jonny. comfortably our worst defender this season.

like someone said we need a world class CB and smalling, rojo and jones are performing much better than evans. if someone is going to be show the door out of OT then evans is a big favourite now.

you got a united career to save jonny.
 
His back passes could've cost us dearly. If we can keep all our defenders fit plus add one maybe two more then we can show him the door.
 
I actually liked Evans much more then Jones today and the back pas was more Carrick's fault (whom I love by the way). He did better then before this season and i don't really see why people blame him so much.

I have much bigger problems with Fellaini, then with him....
 
IrishLegend said:
Apart from the back pass (which was truly terrible), he played well.
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Agree with this.

I'm not sure what's happened to his ability on the ball this season. Gone from being our best ball playing CB to looking shaky with it.
 
About that back-pass, wasn't Carrick just as culpable?

I thought both of them did okay, Carrick more than okay, apart from that one.
 
Still decent on the ball, but he is just prone to one or two brainfarts per game that can lose us points. Having Smalling out makes us realize how good the big lad really is. I can't wait to have him back. If we are to play with three at the back, Jones, Smalling and Rojo are perfectly suited with Carrick in front of them.
 
DanNistelrooy said:
Agree with this.

I'm not sure what's happened to his ability on the ball this season. Gone from being our best ball playing CB to looking shaky with it.
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I think part of it is the whole back '3' thing. Some of it is due to last season. Some of it is because of injuries. Some of it is form.

He's a good player who once he regains his composure and form. He'll be all right.
 
Kraftwerker said:
Agreed.

This level of criticism is insane after a clean sheet. I think opinions are really clouded by the back-pass (which was pathetic).

Reckon he's next in line to prove a few doubters wrong.
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Having watched that 'back pass' again it seems like Carrick let it go back to De Gea, however it's hard to tell how far he was from the ball when it passed him.
 
Jev said:
About that back-pass, wasn't Carrick just as culpable?

I thought both of them did okay, Carrick more than okay, apart from that one.
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I was thinking about that. Not sure why he decided to let it go.

Evans looks rusty as hell to me, as he hasn't been playing football for half a year. Generally speaking, this is our B Centre Back pairing I think.
 
I can't believe people are blaming Carrick for Evan's casual stupidity. If that was a pass to Carrick it was a very, very poor one. Even worse if it was intended for De Gea

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Kounan said:
I actually liked Evans much more then Jones today and the back pas was more Carrick's fault (whom I love by the way). He did better then before this season and i don't really see why people blame him so much.
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Agreed here.
 
BigDunc9 said:
I can't believe there are still people on here who think he is good on the ball.
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He has proved himself as a fantastic ball player over the past few years. Even last season in a year or mediocrity he was still brilliant on the ball.
 
Loublaze said:
I can't believe people are blaming Carrick for Evan's casual stupidity. If that was a pass to Carrick it was a very, very poor one. Even worse if it was intended for De Gea

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Even worse is how slow he was react after the error on that one. You'd expect as soon as he realised he wasn't getting the ball, he'd have sprinted towards the attacker and try to shut him down. De Gea bailed him out big time.
 
Cheesy said:
Even worse is how slow he was react after the error on that one. You'd expect as soon as he realised he wasn't getting the ball, he'd have sprinted towards the attacker and try to shut him down. De Gea bailed him out big time.
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Unfortunately that is Evans sprinting
 
BigDunc9 said:
I can't believe there are still people on here who think he is good on the ball.
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He has been very solid in the past but I think of all our defenders he seems to be the most uncomfortable and unsure in a back line with 3 centre backs. As @Locka said rightly on our show, he's only played in that system because of the timing of injuries whereas Rojo, McNair and Smalling have all had the opportunity to play in a 4 and have looked better for it.
 
Loublaze said:
I can't believe people are blaming Carrick for Evan's casual stupidity. If that was a pass to Carrick it was a very, very poor one. Even worse if it was intended for De Gea

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Evans has had a season to forget. He cocked up against MK Dons to give them the lead. We have been guilty for years of passing it back to the goalkeeper an obscene number of times. There's no excuse for it. Stop it.
 
Kraftwerker said:
The way Carrick reacts to that is very strange. Look at him, what's he doing?
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I mean when he kind of randomly backed away for a moment after the ball sailed past him, instead of chasing it immediately.

Edit: I've confused Evans and Carrick here. Ignore me.:lol::lol:
 
Absolutely terrible on the ball, which is the same as all the CB at the club. None of them can pass the ball 5 yards. The difference is Carrick can and is prepared to pass the ball forward when the teams press as oppose to lumping it forward when under pressure. We need ball playing defenders.
 
Kraftwerker said:
The way Carrick reacts to that is very strange. Look at him, what's he doing?
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He's confused because he knows theres no way someone trying to pass to him would play that ball. So he has to believe that De Gea is right behind him where Evans bent the ball.

Even if Carrick slides he probably can't get to it. Not that he should have to
 
De Gea blasted Carrick as well, obviously Carricks error is no where near Evans' stupidity levels but he shouldn't have let it go or react so slowly.
 
Third or fourth suicide pass from him this season.
Last week i've said he's Tottenham level.......i change my mind to QPR level.

I really can't see him at Old Trafford next season.
"You can single out as many players as you want. Yes, Michael Carrick did well in defence. I said it was an all-English defence today but then Jonny Evans corrected me and told me his is from Northern Ireland. So a British defence."
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Oh Louis...i love you :lol:
 
Let's be honest here, anyone Blaming Carrick for that Evans fail needs a word with themselves. Maybe you can criticize his reaction to the stupid ball, but even if he sprinted towards Sterling he was never going to stop him from getting the ball. 100% Evans fault
 
If Rojo had been fit he'd not have got the game to begin with, he's never looked capable of adjusting to a 3 man defense either. At least even the youngsters like Blackett and McNair were making an effort to fit in.
 
Wednesday at Stoke said:
If Rojo had been fit he'd not have got the game to begin with, he's never looked capable of adjusting to a 3 man defense either. At least even the youngsters like Blackett and McNair were making an effort to fit in.
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Except he would have.
 
When everyone is fit, he won't start. Just a shame that he has not become the top top defender we hoped he would get some years back when he really had a great spell
 
He was terrible today. That back pass could have cost us and then later he allowed Balotelli on a very good chance.

This season he has been very bad and as soon as Rojo is fit, he'll go to bench.
 
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