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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 26
- Clean sheets
- 8
- Goals
- 1
- Assists
- 0
- Yellow cards
- 6
WTF! More of these pants!
Nice one LR7I'd never say such a thing on a dating site, they'd think I was a maniac!You do know this isn't a dating website right and that few of the other sex actually see what you write? But kudos to you both
I've never been so offended...
After Liverpool winning this has cheered me up.
One thing I don't like about Rojo at the moment is how he overcommits on his aggression and pressure when defending. I don't know if it's just him or if today's defenders are like this, but his overcommitment has had him caught out quite often. Yes, it can work well as you prevent the ball holder from settling on the ball, but then, you rely on others to plug in the gaps. When Kompany pushed forward, he had a midfielder or full back fill in for him. Either that, or he fouled the opposition to break up their play. Rojo can't do the latter whenever we face long ball or counterattack at the moment when he overcommits, and sometimes, it results in us conceding goals (1st Ulloa goal against Leceister was primarily Rojo's fault).
Rojo does have promise, though. His passing from the back is decent, particularly his long passing, though he needs to build up more composure. He's also a good tackler and man-marker. Aerially, he has had trouble against big strikers, but I'm sure that he'll get used to that.
Overall, we've got a good modern defender. However, I'd like to see him control his aggressive style of play (the same goes for many of today's central defenders nowadays).
Rojo does have promise, though. His passing from the back is decent, particularly his long passing, though he needs to build up more composure. He's also a good tackler and man-marker. Aerially, he has had trouble against big strikers, but I'm sure that he'll get used to that.
Overall, we've got a good modern defender. However, I'd like to see him control his aggressive style of play (the same goes for many of today's central defenders nowadays).
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When we signed Rojo I said the same thing, if we were going to sign a CB last summer it should have been a world class, established one.
Rojo ultimately didn't, and doesn't, offer anything much more than our other CBs and was simply another good prospect who could become excellent, or just become "good".
Rojo ultimately didn't, and doesn't, offer anything much more than our other CBs and was simply another good prospect who could become excellent, or just become "good".
There are very few established, world class defenders available. Two of the biggest names didn't want to move on, and the rest were either injury-prone or coming back from lengthy injuries. As a result, there were very few reliable options available. Getting Rojo after losing 2 central defenders isn't that bad given that Michael Keane's now out on loan. Rojo's more established than Keane, Blackett, and McNair, and he has the advantage of playing through the whole World Cup campaign up to the final whilst Evans, Smalling, and Jones haven't even experienced all of the Champions League stages as of yet, so we can say that Rojo's more established than all but Evans.
Rojo needs to get used to the league as he's never experienced anything like the Premier League in his career. Let's see how he does after a while.
I really think that if Rojo wasn't left footed, we'd have bought someone else. But generally I agree with your sentiment.
Fair enough. I would have gone all-out and tried to get someone like Hummels or Varane. Personally I was never in the "we desperately need a new CB" camp in the first place, and would have been happy for us to put our trust in Jones, Evans, Smalling and Blackett. Im a big believer that Jones and Smalling have the potential to be world class, and in both cases they development has been hampered by being played out of position and not getting consistent gametime at CB in the last couple of years (thats probably a topic for a different thread however).
I dont dislike Rojo or think he is a bad player, just that we didnt need another mid-twenties, "good and can perhaps become great but might not" type of defender". Before the world cup I cant remember Rojo being mentioned a single time as a top prospect.
And that's where you're wrong. Hummels specifically stated that he would like to stay at Dortmund and Dortmund said they won't sell, plain and simple. We can surely offer an absurd amount for Hummels to tempt Dortmund (like in the region of 50 million), but what will that change? Hummels, as good as he is, is rarely fit to help us. And Varane? You think Madrid would sell their top prospect who is destined to lead their defence in the next coming years?
The thing is - the game at the moment is in serious lack of world class CB's, there aren't many which you can choose from and combined with our lack of CL, well, it should have been expected.
No, they have been hampered by the constant injuries that they get. Granted, I think Jones is still amazing when he plays and he has the potential to be a world class CB still, but he plays so rarely that you just can't trust him with the position.
Our problem is not getting good defenders, IMO we have good defenders. Our real problem is getting defenders who can play regularly which each other and not get injured every second match. Rojo fixes that as, for the moment, he is immune to our defenders disease.
Wow, thats not a good look! I like slim fit jeans on a man but look in the mirror first.Luke Shaw disagrees.
His jeans are tighter than mine's.
Dumat aptly summed up our defensive issues here. Obtaining Rojo is a huge step towards moving away from an injury-prone defence as he can establish himself as a constant figure at the back. When we have that constant figure, our defence can become even more stable, and we won't face the repercussions of having defenders injured all the time.
My only gripe with Rojo has less to do with him and more to do with the style of modern central defenders who are all gung-ho in their approach (the only exception is Thiago Silva). Even Jones and Smalling are very much modern defenders in the way they play. The likes of Vidic (at his prime) and Thiago Silva nowadays are more balanced and controlled in their aggression and gung-ho style of defending. It is these sort of defenders that I prefer, and if Rojo can control his aggression and gung-ho approach, he can become one of the best defenders in the world.
West Brom 2:2 Man Utd
After a shaky start he's been quality this game I think. Stepping infront very well to win it back early and taking control a few times when Shaw's been caught out.
Composed on the ball once more too.
Composed on the ball once more too.
Really good game, love how up for it he is.
He was probably our best player today. Great pace to nullify Berahino at times to the extent that Berahino gave up trying to outrun him. Good on the ball, he always finds a pass to a teammate.
MOTM for me today, did very well I thought. Didn't have much competition though.
I thought he was absolute quality. Made up for Jones being a chicken head.
He was good, Jones on the other hand...
Likewise. Won the ball numerous times. Unlucky for the goal.
Started poorly. Got better.
Class performance, decisive when venturing out to snuff out attacks, good aerially and aware of his surroundings. Put a no nonsense defender like Shawcross next to him and we won't be half bad.
Did really well considering he was our only centre back tonight and also had to watch left back.
I think he has looked really good at CB, we just need someone solid beside him./
He was poor for their second.
Jones obviously takes the blame, because he's lost out going for the ball like that, but when he sees his defensive partner going to pressure the ball he has to drop. If anything, he took a step forward and tried to play offside, but you just can't do that.
Jones obviously takes the blame, because he's lost out going for the ball like that, but when he sees his defensive partner going to pressure the ball he has to drop. If anything, he took a step forward and tried to play offside, but you just can't do that.
Good perfromance I thought. We have no one to partner hi with though
He struggles under aerially balls, like he can't judge them and lets it bounce. On the deck though, he was solid and didn't put a foot wrong.
Bit of nervousness in the first half but looked great otherwise. He does need someone good in the air alongside him though. Jones - Rojo isn't a good partnership I feel.
He started poorly, but he was class at the end.
With Shawcross we'll be getting penalties every couple of games, no thank you.
Don't think he was at fault for the goal anymore than Rafael.
Getting criticised by Carra for Berahino's goal
I thought Rafael was playing onside, irrespective of Rojo's position.
Extremely unconvincing defending his goal. Slow to react to danger like Sessegnon's goal today. He's good at reading passes into forwards and stealing the ball further up the pitch though. Plays a lot of long balls with few of them making it to the player.
Poor in the air today, looked uncertain and let balls bounce in behind him.
Started poorly, poor for their 1st goal but after that he was good.
Strange one for me. Did some good things but then at other times didn't look good at all. Seems to be the general reaction I have to most of his performances, there is not a lot of middle ground.