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2014-15 Performances

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6.0 Season Average Rating
Appearances
26
Clean sheets
8
Goals
1
Assists
0
Yellow cards
6
Isn't it possible to dislocate your shoulder and be completely fine only a week or so later? It would be a massive boost if he were to return early. Not only do we need centre half's but we could do with him at left back given Shaw's absence.
 
Kag said:
Isn't it possible to dislocate your shoulder and be completely fine only a week or so later? It would be a massive boost if he were to return early. Not only do we need centre half's but we could do with him at left back given Shaw's absence.
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I dislocated my shoulder and was back on the pitch in four weeks. "Completely fine" takes a little longer than a week, but I would think four weeks should do the job, especially for a top athlete who has access to the best medical care in the world.
 
Surprised to see Rojo starting today. He recovered very quickly.
 
Took this many games for him to get booked (feel free to correct me if i'm wrong). This clearly is Van Gaal's influence on him. Very surprised with his disciplinary record so far.
 
Good performance, especially after coming back earlier than expected. He seemed oddly composed in contrast to his early season appearances where he seemed nervy and lacking confidence.
 
Sly said:
Took this many games for him to get booked (feel free to correct me if i'm wrong). This clearly is Van Gaal's influence on him. Very surprised with his disciplinary record so far.
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And it was smart yellow on top of that.
 
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Sly said:
Took this many games for him to get booked (feel free to correct me if i'm wrong). This clearly is Van Gaal's influence on him. Very surprised with his disciplinary record so far.
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He actually seems to be quite mature, at the moment at least. I don't get why people say they're nervous when he's playing, he tends to look pretty solid to me, and made some very good forward passes today.
 
Great game from him. He's a shoe-in for one of the CB positions, and for me the best option we have there. People say he worries them, but other than looking a bit nervous in his first couple of games he hasn't done much wrong... certainly compared to the others who seem to have a bet on who can get injured/sent off/dropped the most in one season.
 
He had a great game today. Was a little worried first half when he kept pushing forward a lot, but he seemed to fine with Carrick pulling in.
Him and Smalling if they can continue this partnership will be great.
 
Honestly neither he nor Smalling came under any real pressure all game. He looked decent enough but lets get a bit of perspective on it, we were in control all game and had very little defending to do.
 
Crackers said:
He had a great game today. Was a little worried first half when he kept pushing forward a lot, but he seemed to fine with Carrick pulling in.
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I think he will form a good understanding with Carrick, kinda like the one he had with Carvalho at Sporting since Carrick and Carvalho are very similiar players.
 
He is a good ball player. It's when he has defending to do that scares me.

Today he had to do none. Looked very good.
 
I think he's a good player to have in the squad but I wouldn't draw a line under his name as the answer to the LCB position, I'd like to see some true competition brought in for that spot as opposed to just Blackett.
 
I like him very much! Good thing he has recovered quickly.
 
Immense today, makes so much difference to have him at the back imo, he's damn good with the ball and always tries to play it forward/keep it low when starting building from the back.
 
Sly said:
Took this many games for him to get booked (feel free to correct me if i'm wrong). This clearly is Van Gaal's influence on him. Very surprised with his disciplinary record so far.
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Got a yellow against West Brom I think
 
Rojo didn't look out of sorts at all in this match. His defending, whenever he was called upon to it, was very good and composed, and he looked settled in defence alongside Smalling. He was also very good at passing the ball around, and he played much better than he did at the beginning when he looked somewhat shaky.

He still has those one or two moments where he presses too hard and loses his man. A couple of times, Aluko went past Rojo too easily because Rojo pressed Aluko too hard. The yellow was also a result of that. van Gaal has done a great job controlling Rojo's aggression, and I give credit to Rojo for playing less instinctively. However, he still has those very few moments of over-aggression that I'm sure he can eradicate, especially under van Gaal.
 
Can't remember anyone having to do any defending today so can't really comment on that side of things but he brought the ball out from the back beautifully today.
 
Devil may care said:
I think he's a good player to have in the squad but I wouldn't draw a line under his name as the answer to the LCB position, I'd like to see some true competition brought in for that spot as opposed to just Blackett.
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Isn't Evans a LCB now?
 
He's strangely the most confident player on the pitch but he gives me a heart attack every time he gets the ball.
 
I thought he was a bit shaky on 1v1, overall still a decent performance, especially he might not fully fit.
The good new is our CBs looked comfortable playing the ball forward, no more bizarre backward pass to De Gea.
 
that is when defenders like him get praise.. I ve said it elsewhere. Van Gaal is really clever applying this passing style as our defense can be really shaky at times with a lot of changes in the line up of the back for. He knows that if we keep the ball the opponent will have less time to threaten us get tired. We have good defenders but still they need a lot of work to develop some understanding between each other. Its obviously hard when we have so many injuries in that resort but they are all very good on the ball which is why we play this style and of course its because we dont have the perfect players for counters. I mean Van Persie and Mata are not those types. Even Rooney is quite slow to counter attack. Fellaini. So we play this and we are getting better at it and players like Rojo benefit from it and gaining confidence which is what we need atm.
 
Him and Smalling is probably the best CB pairing we can put out, even when everyone's fit. They compliment each other quite well and i'm excited to see them develop together.
 
JohnnyLaw said:
Him and Smalling is probably the best CB pairing we can put out, even when everyone's fit. They compliment each other quite well and i'm excited to see them develop together.
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I think so too. Smalling is a very calm and composed and can be a good influence for Rojo when he is beside him. Neither were really tested defensively today but was still a good performance from Rojo.
 
It was a good game for him to come back into. Thought he looked sharp and composed. Big test for him during the week though (if he plays).
 
I thought he looked a bit shaky against Aluko at times but generally did a fine job. He's definitely not a "safety first" defender and will never give you the feeling of security there was when Vidic was there but he seems very talented, unpredictable and completely mad. He reminds me of Heinze but without the elbows. He's great.
 
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