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2024-25 Performances


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4.9 Season Average Rating
Appearances
31
Goals
4
Assists
2
Yellow cards
1
More useful than Hojlund right now , but that is not saying much , if we are honest neither of them would get a regular start in the vast majority of teams in the league , certainly none of the top half teams.
 
After being everyone’s favourite player against Southampton he’s suddenly not good enough. Hmm.
 
Good first half, and then faded in the second. If he can do the simple hold-up play like he did before the break, then he should start. Højlund is delivering the opposite of that.

He needs to stop dribbling entirely though. Every time he either runs into a defender or is caught from behind.
 
Amorim is poor to play a false 9 with bloody Bruno Fernandes.

Would he play Bruno Fernandes at LM/LW with Messi at a False 9? It was players like Henry and David Villa playing LW/LM not Iniesta.

I knew the game was lost from the starting tactics.
 
his shooting technique in the box is weird he always seem to hit a player in front of him. Still less of a donkey than Hojlund.
 
He's frustrating. He had some useful moments in that first half when he held up the ball and did a great job to win the penalty. Aside from that, he doesn't offer much of a goal threat. The only way to really get the best out of him is to have pacey players next to and around him. I feel like both him and Hojlund are half-players and both combined would get us somewhere a little bit closer to a real player.
 
Not his fault our forward line is dire. Bruno can maybe play as a left sided 10 but both he and Zirkzee need runners/wide forwards who can beat a man and we currently have no one except Amad who can do this. Also teams are getting wise to how good Amad is and beginning to overload that area.
 
His finishing is shite, but goodness gracious, he brings 10x more to the team than Hojlund.
 
Helps our team more than Hojlund does but is pretty average himself. Average PL striker compared to a championship level striker are our options right now
 
Nice link-up, some nice passing also. He's not pulling up any trees but he is involved in our attacks, something that Hojlund struggles with.
 
Played as well as you'd expect. Decent game by his standards but it's low bar as we've scrapping bottom of the barrel for all our performances.
 
Lacks the tenacity and intensity of our forwards of the past but he is technically a decent player.
 
Miles better than Hojlund and should stay in a team for a while, even though he is far from great solution himself. But at least technically he is on another level and can make his teammates look better.
 
Probably his best overall game for us. But, still nowhere near good enough. I’d have given the performance 5/10. Neat hold up play but zero goalscoring threat.

8/10 on the Zirkzee scale

5/10 on the Centre Forward for MUFC scale
 
Good first half. Invisible in the second half. I do wonder if he is simply not fit enough for the league. For that reason alone I would keep him and get him properly fit for next season. Not a huge fan, but there is something there.
 
Brings more to the table than Hojlund but is basically zero attacking threat. I like his neat little one two stuff but then I get frustrated when he gets space to run into and he's just runs point blank into whoever he's supposed to be taking on.

If he plays for me he needs to be in on of the 10 roles behind an actual striker.
 
Didn’t see the game but heard he did alright. Hope he can build on it.

4 goals in 31 games though. We’re really struggling up front between him and Hojlund. In fairness 19 of those were sub appearances but still, not great.
 
Didn’t see the game but heard he did alright. Hope he can build on it.

4 goals in 31 games though. We’re really struggling up front between him and Hojlund. In fairness 19 of those were sub appearances but still, not great.
Whilst I don't think Zirkzee and Hojlund are playing to the required standard, it's hard to look past just how shocking we are in build up play, there's just nothing.
 
Whilst I don't think Zirkzee and Hojlund are playing to the required standard, it's hard to look past just how shocking we are in build up play, there's just nothing.
Yes that’s correct. It’s been noticeable for years that we depend more on the wingers to score as well. Now we’re playing a system that basically has no wide players.
 
Not as bad as the other option, but zero goal threat

Basically this, he offers something to the team while Hojlund offers nothing. Neither are good enough number 9s currently for us and the fact that they are our 2 options is utterly horrendous.
 
Didn’t see the game but heard he did alright. Hope he can build on it.

4 goals in 31 games though. We’re really struggling up front between him and Hojlund. In fairness 19 of those were sub appearances but still, not great.

Even 4 in 12 is hardly great, our entire frontline at this point is probably being outscored in the league by Salah alone.
 
Even 4 in 12 is hardly great, our entire frontline at this point is probably being outscored in the league by Salah alone.

And 2 of those in a game where Rashford also scored 2 and most people here, and those at the club have decided he isnt good enough. Also in that game we had one of our only dominating performances against a team that were struggling.
 
On a normal day or season, his performance today would be a bad Martial game that people would be disappointed with. From what we’ve seen from him and our strikers this season, especially in recent weeks from Hojlund, this was a great performance.

That’s how bad the standards have been lowered.

You can see he’s talented but was the wrong profile for this team.
 
It’s not about better or worse than Hojlund, they’re both not convincing but ultimately they’re very different players.

If we are spending a lot of time in the opposition half and controlling possession, then play Zirkzee. But when we’re being forced deep like we were today, we have one less runner on the break in the spaces that open up.

He individually did well today but it just meant that it was only Dalot making runs in behind. Garnacho coming one added an option but by then we were losing and Brighton had dropped back a bit.

Brighton had very little to worry about in general as they pressed us high.
 
Trying to be the perfect fit in a dysfunctional team must be a nightmare.

But new signings should always get a year. So he did ok today. 5/10 which makes him one of the better ones in a red shirt.
 
He just needs runners man. Amad and Dalot were the only potential runners and every Dalot run ends in nothing anyways.

Also put a shock collar on him in training and buzz him every time he doesn’t shoot around the box. Just make him shoot

Problem is you can make the excuse for a load of our squad that they would be better with different players around them.
 
Decent 1st half but we’ll be lucky to get anything more than 8-10 goals from him in a season. Add in our wing backs who haven’t scored all season along with Ugarte and Mainoo the team has far too many starting players that are not a goal scoring threat.
 
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