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2015-16 Performances

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5.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
54
Goals
11
Assists
11
Yellow cards
7
Red cards
1
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Aside from the Villa game it's been the same old story. Looks good but does absolutely nothing only to be relentlessly praised on the caf for his mythical link up play.
 
Absolutely shocking today really. Sloppy passes, and then refusing to shoot when getting the chance and just passing it on. One of his worst games for us I think. In his #10 position too, which everyone on here was calling out for.
 
Heart of a pea! Looking forward to Rooneys return!
 
Today just reaffirms why he plays on the wing. He plays on the fringes of the game, he's an impact player. Always has been which is why he's spent most of his career out wide.
 
Gets the ball, turns inside and plays a pointless pass. Repeat.
 
Akash said:
Aside from the Villa game it's been the same old story. Looks good but does absolutely nothing only to be relentlessly praised on the caf for his mythical link up play.
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Spot fecking on.
 
Really a nothing performance from him today and he completely fluffed a chance that BFS served up for him on a plate. I'd prefer to start Young and Memphis on the wings and play Herrera behind the striker.
 
I been saying it from the start; our RW is a cause of alot of our problems. It's not mata's fault either but he's pretty useless there unless he plays in his natural position.

Without a RW like how depay plays on the left our attack is lopsided and very easy to mark out.
 
He rarely does anything. He's hugely overrated on here. Chelsea robbed us of £37.1 million. He's so slow and dithers on the ball like David Moyes in the transfer market. In an ideal world he'd be a bench option at best. Or sell him.
 
An absolute passenger, and has been for a while, and fecked up every time he got near the goal. Absolutely dreadful tonight.
 
Another unjustified criticism on here, typical Caf. The truth is what he really needs is Messi, Ronaldo and Robben around him. Then he will really flourish…

Seriously though, play him on the right or don't play him at all. People need to accept his limitations, which I believe LvG already knows and that’s why he spent majority of pre-season and EPL so far looking for solution in no10 position.
 
Santiago_KinderBueno said:
I been saying it from the start; our RW is a cause of alot of our problems. It's not mata's fault either but he's pretty useless there unless he plays in his natural position.

Without a RW like how depay plays on the left our attack is lopsided and very easy to mark out.
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He was playing as a #10.
 
We're a possession team that struggles to scores goals. I'd have thought a player who keeps the ball well while also getting a lot of goals/assists is pretty much the opposite of pointless.

Obvious that this thread ain't going in that direction though.

Definitely don't get the notion that he doesn't get criticised here mind, he has plenty of doubters.
 
People saying we don't have the strikers upfront to score goals, but how much of that 'lack of a cutting edge' comes from Mata fannying about on the ball?
He's fecking useless. Not fit to lace David Silvas boots.
 
What a shocker Mata had tonight our worst player for me can't remember him doing anything right.
 
If you look at our goalscoring rate under Moyes before Mata arrived, then look at our goalscoring rate with him on the pitch and then our goalscoring rate when he's been missing, the obvious conclusion is to wonder why on earth we spent £37m for him.
 
Terrible performance, but some of the overreaction is delightful.

I mean "he rarely does anything for us" really? That's factually incorrect.
 
Should have buried BFS's fantastic pass. What a let down his attempt to control the ball was.
 
kundalini said:
If you look at our goalscoring rate under Moyes before Mata arrived, then look at our goalscoring rate with him on the pitch and then our goalscoring rate when he's been missing, the obvious conclusion is to wonder why on earth we spent £37m for him.
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Do you have these stats? I'd be interested to see them.

I wanted to see him as a #10 and like many others on here was excited by today's line up. Shows what we know.
 
Wasn't his best game but the reaction on here is crap. He was always trying to create it just wasn't coming off.

A bad day in the office for him. The Schweinsteiger pass summed it up. He should of came off for Morgan to help kill the threat of PSV on the counter and push Ander further up the field.
 
Just confirms that he can't play as a number 10 in a possession system.

Maybe he can play there in a counter attacking system with more space, but not in a possession system. He's best out wide then.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
Terrible performance, but some of the overreaction is delightful.

I mean "he rarely does anything for us" really? That's factually incorrect.
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Pops up with a goal now and then but its not that far off the mark, after his first season where he still had some cutting edge
 
Decent performance in the first half. Abominable in the second. What he does at the end of the Schweinsteiger pass is criminal.
 
Ekeke said:
Pops up with a goal now and then but its not that far off the mark, after his first season where he still had some cutting edge
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It's a bit more often then every now and then when you look at goals and assists.

But I mean, its fairly obvious that this was an off day... I mean, look at that chance in the second half, are you telling me that Mata normally wouldn't a) control that ball and/or b) bury it?
 
He was asleep today. Taking touches when he needed to pass, too slow to shoot, not shooting when he had to, just a very strange performance. You need to be more alive and aware to the situation when you're chasing a game.
 
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