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2024-25 Performances


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4.6 Season Average Rating
Appearances
28
Goals
4
Assists
2
Yellow cards
1
Shouldn't be passing to a centre-back in the last minute imo, same with Hojlund they just really lack confidence in front of goal atm. It's costing us.
 
I’m pretty sure when Amad equalised that he told him to end his celebrations and go on to win it. Good to see that attitude.
 
A bit cowardly to pass a centre half when you have a decent chance yourself.

A striker should be ruthless there considering what's at stake.
If he shoots and doesn't score from there people like you would be moaning that he should have squared it.
 
He did everything right when he came on tbh, made good decisions and made good passes.

Not sure he would have even known that it was fecking Maguire in the number 9 position. It was still the right choice regardless of who it was
 
I’m pretty sure when Amad equalised that he told him to end his celebrations and go on to win it. Good to see that attitude.
Noticed that too. Great to see him recognise we shouldn’t repeat the mistake of the first goal.
 
Given that a penalty is 0.76 xG, it’s fair to say that chance wasn’t 0.99.

I’d be surprised if it was more than 0.2 given the height of the cross, defenders and keepers in the way.
FotMob has it at 0.33
 
He’s shit
But the booing was unnecessary
Sadly he just doesn't look a Prem player. He is too slow for the high pace of the league. It's not his fault we paid £30m plus for him. Even for the Maguire chance to win it, it really is a simple pass on the ground but he mishits it, it bobbles in the air and Harry skies it. If he just completes a simple pass Maguire scores and we win.
 
Wish he would have taken that last chance on himself. I would not have faulted him at all.
 
The run for the chance was good. Probably offsite and the pass was not clean enough.

Maybe the pass wasn't super clean, but surely at this level we should expect someone to hit the target from 5 yards out regardless

The fact it was Maguire mitigates it a bit, obviously not a natural finisher
 
Came on with a point to prove and I think he did that very well. Used his strength and technical ability on the ball to keep it in tight spaces. Shame it fell to Maguire, it was the right option.
 
Came on with a point to prove and I think he did that very well. Used his strength and technical ability on the ball to keep it in tight spaces. Shame it fell to Maguire, it was the right option.
Hopefully that Newcastle game has lit a fire in him. I don't rate him, but equally want him to succeed like I do all our players.
 
The idea was great but yeah that pass was not. Just needed to focus and get that smoothly over and we prob get the full 3 points
 
He might have been offside but either way it was a really poor pass to Maguire, made it a much harder chance than it needed to be. Other than that he did alright when he came on, he held the ball reasonably well and played one lovely switch of play. It was also nice to see him get a good reaction when he came on, Monday was pretty tough and must have been really unpleasant for him, unfortunately the reality is though that if you combined the best of our 2 strikers then you would have 1 really good striker but both of them are way too limited.
 
A player at this level should be able to aim for the far post with that much space and time on the ball.
 
Nice little cameo but hopefully just encourages the interested clubs to follow through with the interest.

Would have loved for him to take that chance on himself and score though, would have been the perfect response to what happened against Newcastle.
 
Of course you're gonna pass it to Maguire there ffs.

Pleased with the reception he got anyway.
 
Did more than Hojund in 4 minutes and only had 6 starts and people are already have their agenda's saying his pass was poor, even though the pitch conditions were terrible and Maguire messed a sitter. If Zirkee started and put in the performance Hojlund did, everyone would be screaming to get him out of the club. The double standards is deafening
 
Once again he's much better when he comes off the bench. He's struggled badly whenever he's started games (bar a couple of his first matches), but it feels like more often than not he's done quite well when coming off the bench. It shows that there is something there, albeit it looks unlikely he'll make it here.
 
Hopefully that Newcastle game has lit a fire in him. I don't rate him, but equally want him to succeed like I do all our players.
He's a weird player, I do rate him in terms of his technical skills but it is a bit hard to see how he fits our team. But then we're such a hard team to come into and play well, it's hard to really blame him that much. Easy to forget he's only 23 too

I get why he may be sold back to Italy, but I'd be a bit disappointed. I think he's got game but we just haven't really utilised it. Plus being subbed off and booed was really harsh and he didn't deserve that
 
Did more than Hojund in 4 minutes and only had 6 starts and people are already have their agenda's saying his pass was poor, even though the pitch conditions were terrible and Maguire messed a sitter. If Zirkee started and put in the performance Hojlund did, everyone would be screaming to get him out of the club. The double standards is deafening
Pitch conditions were also poor for Hojlund mate.
 
Really was hoping he'd score, didn't like what happened to him last week - even if he isn't great.
 
Wasnt a very good pass for Maguire but I think he's right to set his mate up in that position. Yes its possible to score yourself but its an easier chance if you set someone up
 
No it isn't. Not at this level. He has an advantage over every defending player for half a second. That's enough at this level.
We going to ignore the angle he was at?

Of course it was the best option to pass.