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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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I love the guy, and rate his ability, but theres no denying he has struggled to find a rhythm at united. isn't having anywhere near the impact i'd expect of someone of his proven quality.
 
His inaccurate passing has been surprising. Maybe it just seems that way, but he's botched a lot of passes that could've been more dangerous if they were more precise.
 
He's been poor most of the season. Either play him centrally or not at all.
 
He has been woeful, but I'm amazed how often him and Lingard had to come deep in the game.We didn't have enough players to attack in many occasions.
 
Wade3 said:
His inaccurate passing has been surprising. Maybe it just seems that way, but he's botched a lot of passes that could've been more dangerous if they were more precise.
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I never understood why people were oblivious to this side of of game. He destroys more attacking football done he creates. He has nothing to do with the movements of the attackers. He frustrated Chelsea and he has always frustrated me. What position can he really play? He is a sub at best in any of the top clubs.
 
Shit passing today and poor decision making overall. Very disappointed by him.

Wade3 said:
His inaccurate passing has been surprising. Maybe it just seems that way, but he's botched a lot of passes that could've been more dangerous if they were more precise.
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I'm sure you have this break in the second half where a poor weight on the ball completely killed off the counter. That sort of passes is what separates the real playmakers from the ones who aren't so good at it.
 
Like Fellaini he was not a good acquisition by Moyes. He doesn't get enough scrutiny because he is a nice guy.
 
He was a lot more involved today than usual, but for all the wrong reasons.

His passing was terrible. Either playing passes too early or too late. Most notably in the second half, when he played a pass out right to Lingard that killed our counter attack completely. A more composed head and he puts Lingard straight through to the goalkeeper.

That he needs to play centrally to play well is simply nonsense. He had license to roam all afternoon.
 
the hea said:
Our most overrated player by far.
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Indeed. He's a squad player at best. He's as slow as a tortoise and really has very little impact on a game. We were robbed of £37.1 million. At least the forum seems to be coming around to the fact he's really nothing special.
 
Dog shite. Slowed us down more than anyone else on the pitch today.
 
He was so slow today, not just playing wise i mean in his decision making. And his passing/finishing was way off today too.

Really bad day.
 
I can't remember the last UTD player to infuriate me as much as he does, he's so far from what I expect of a top UTD player it is unreal. Genuinely would be delighted if he never played for us again.
 
When the ball reaches him it's almost certain that he'll delay things long enough for the opposition to regain their defensive shape, he's mind numbingly sluggish.
 
He's turned into Wayne Rooney. You have 19 and 22 year olds driving us forwards while our so called stars keep giving us nothing. He was actually having a good season but over the month or so he's been completlrt pointless.
 
Ayush_reddevil said:
Is he the weakest player in the league in terms of body strength?
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I think he might just be. And it's strange because while he's never been the strongest, I remember him always giving us a torrid time and us struggling to get near him/the ball off him. I just don't remember him as timid as this. I thought he had more fire in the belly.
 
NinjaFletch said:
He's out of form. But its no coincidence his loss of form is coinciding with us not doing anything. At the start of the season when he was racking up goals and getting involved so were the team.
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Yep not his fault.... He's in there to be the creative force yet he plays 5 yard passes to fellaini and runs forward.
 
Very dissapointing in recent weeks at a time when we needed him to step up.

Not sure what to expect of him any more. Is he capable of match winning quality?
 
Completely invisible until he moved into the middle, at which point he became decent... Too little too late though
 
He needs replacing. Sick and tired of him playing wide. It's doing my head in.

Nice guy, but we can't have a player that goes invisible so often in games.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
Completely invisible until he moved into the middle, at which point he became decent... Too little too late though
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Every time he's been played through the middle from the start he plays even worse than he does out wide. He really isn't good enough to be one of our main attacking players.
 
Playing poorly in a side that's playing poorly generally.

Disappointed he isn't playing well but in a way I'm more disappointed that he seems to have lost his usual ability to produce goals/assists even when in poor form.

It's easy to live with his indifferent form when he's still our most productive player but if he's not producing....
 
In the obvious way - he wasn't, and isn't anywhere near as good as the general perception.
 
jem said:
In what way?
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In the way that he wasn't really as good as people made him out to be, particularly on here. Always is the case with certain opposition players - you notice their good performances but don't notice when they are anonymous. When they play for the team you support however, you do notice.
 
Fergus' son said:
In the way that he wasn't really as good as people made him out to be, particularly on here. Always is the case with certain opposition players - you notice their good performances but don't notice when they are anonymous. When they play for the team you support however, you do notice.
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Apart from the Chelsea fans presumably given they thought he was great?
 
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