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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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Watching Silva on Monday night made me realise once again what we're missing from Mata. I still think that he's the better finisher, but other than that there's no contest.
 
Wouldnt mind if it's Mata or Young, they're in the same category for me as in how much of a key player they are. Mata's more productive but Young is more likely to break the match open by passing a defender or his excellent link up play with Shaw. Pedro is better than both on the wing.
 
Very good so far. Hope to see him try more of these decisive passes.
 
Great pass for the goal. We need to see more of that, as he's often reluctant to play the pass and we haven't really seen a creative Mata since his arrival.
 
Was he instructed to come inside or was it of his own accord.

He needs to play in the middle with somewhat of a free role. He's played the last 10/15 mins in the role that David Silva plays for City.

The more of the ball he sees in the middle of the park, the better United can potentially be in possession.

His best attributes are basically wasted when pushed out wide. He's too predictable. Cutting inside every time. It's a waste of a position on the field the way I see it. If we had another pacey winger out wide, willing to take on his man, we would be so much more dangerous
 
unitedbhoy said:
Was he instructed to come inside or was it of his own accord.

He needs to play in the middle with somewhat of a free role. He's played the last 10/15 mins in the role that David Silva plays for City.

The more of the ball he sees in the middle of the park, the better United can potentially be in possession
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He's given some freedom. I think LVG once called him a 'false' winger
 
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For every one of those, there is about 10 of these.

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Has anyone worked out what was wrong with this yet? I've watched it a good 15 times now and I'm still baffled. He didn't take on three defenders to burst into the area with his natural dribbling skill? He didn't swing a Beckham like cross into a completely empty area? He didn't contort himself into a jellyfish or turn his marker invisible to slip it into the overlapping runner?... Answers on a postcard.
 
Assisted from the left hand side. Would be much better as a face up left winger, not an inverted right forward who plays extremely deep.

Nice little ball in for Memphis then as well.
 
Mockney said:
Has anyone worked out what was wrong with this yet? I've watched it a good 15 times now and I'm still baffled. He didn't take on three defenders to burst into the area with his natural dribbling skill? He didn't swing a Beckham like cross into a completely empty area? He didn't contort himself into a jellyfish or turn his marker invisible to slip it into the overlapping runner?... Answers on a postcard.
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You're reading to much into it, maybe football isn't for you? Perhaps, marine biology? For every take under pressure and turn inside there is a take under pressure with his back to space and dribble back 20 yards. Quite literal really.
 
I don't get why people kept calling for Mata to be taken off, he was our best player and everything positive and all of our creativity was through him.
 
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I don't get why people kept calling for Mata to be taken off, he was our best player and everything positive and all of our creativity was through him.
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I thought so too. Just once i would like him to play that number 10 role. With our wingers he would really come to life. His best stuff came when he drifted into the middle
 
He created two great openings but he was losing the ball for fun. He's far too easy to dispossess.
 
Yeah was a weird one... he conceded possession far more then usual, and yet was our most threatening person in possession by some distance.
 
He can have a poor game and still come up with a goal/assist while at least doing the basics decently.

Rooney's equally productive except for one big difference. He barely resembles a top flight footballer when he's having a stinker.
 
United again! said:
You're reading to much into it, maybe football isn't for you? Perhaps, marine biology? For every take under pressure and turn inside there is a take under pressure with his back to space and dribble back 20 yards. Quite literal really.
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Perhaps indeed. Maybe you can enlighten me as to what Mata should've done? It's the only way I'll learn.
 
He was sloppier than usual tonight. Set up our goal and our only other chance so can't complain too much.
 
Should have come away with two assists, with an AWOL centre forward that's a good peformance.
 
was actually my MOM. hes quite good that lad. Should have had two beatiful assists instead of 1
 
Very good game imo. Has done things we expect him to do. Lost the ball on few occasions but never gave up, been all over the pitch and got a nice assist. If Memphis had buried that chance he'd have 2.
 
Should have had 2 assists, wonderful passes from him. But elsewhere he looks pretty slow, and gets bullied off the ball quite a fair bit. Though, like the rest of the team, he improved when Schweinsteiger and Herrera came on. Soon as Herrera came on, he and Mata were already linking it up on the right.
 
Gets pushed over way too easily. Has obvious quality though.
 
Probably his most creative game since he joined the club. Hopefully it continues. You can tell what a difference having memphis actually running in behind makes though, always felt he had it in him to show that creative side if we just had players making the runs. Was good today for the most part though.
 
Created our two best chances (and goal) with completely left-field passes (figuratively, not literally. One was from the right) and if Memphis had slotted home his chance we could quite comfortably say we won that game because of Mata's vision. Yet that's cause for concern for some. Play so-so and create our best openings = not good enough. Play well and don't create enough = ditto. Some of you will never be happy. God knows what the Caf would've thought of Eric. The little munchkin did his job. Green tick on the scorecard for me.
 
Looks not fully fit to me. Some brilliant moments (great passes into the path of the runner, finally) coupled with some easy ball losses and weak defending. Still, deserves his place
 
I thought he was pretty rubbish except for those two brilliant passes, but those alone turned it into a decent performance. I'd like to see him given a couple of games in the number 10 role.
 
He should play at 10 with passing like that.
 
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