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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
The Cambridge game certainly didn't hurt my impression that Smalling-Rojo should be our first choice partnership by some distance.
 
Amar__ said:
I probably like him more as a fullback than as a CB. He isn't half bad attacking wise(I will ignore those two shit crosses because he has proved he has good cross in him).
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He's better at CB, although he can play resonably as full back, he's wasted at LB. He explores his full potencial at CB. And like i already said multiple times, he has expressed that he feels more comfortable at CB as it suits him better and his characteristics.
You have a highly rated player in Luke Shaw for LB but have clear problems in the center of your defence. It's better to have Rojo settle as CB and move him occasionaly to the LB position to cover some absence rather than play him regularly in that position.
 
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Sly said:
He's better at CB, although he can play resonably as full back, he's wasted at LB. He explores his full potencial at CB. And like i already said multiple times, he has expressed that he feels more comfortable at CB as it suits him better and his characteristics.
You have a highly rated player in Luke Shaw for LB but have clear problems in the center of your defence. It's better to have Rojo settle as CB and move him occasionaly to the LB position to cover some absence rather than play him regularly in that position.
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Yeah, I know we have Shaw there who I rate very highly, I am just ignoring it and talking about Rojo in general. I am not really fan of Rojo type of defenders, that's why I don't rate him that highly on CB, but I like him on fullback.
I am not sure van Gaal would buy him if he wasn't that good with the ball at his feet, and I hate when central defenders are rated mainly on their on-ball abilities. Saying that, I like Rojo in general, I like his mentality, his determination, few other things too, and considering he is here just for few months he is more than good, but I think he should improve defensively.
 
Pundits have started calling him "Rokko" He'll always be "Roho" to me.
 
Bill.s.preston said:
Pundits have started calling him "Rokko" He'll always be "Roho" to me.
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Really don't get that. Where have they picked up this pronunciation? Argentine's actually have a pretty soft form of Spanish. I think they're getting mixed up with the sound the 'o' makes of 'jo' when it precedes it. Its not Rokko. The first 'o' sorta comes out of the throat which makes it sound pretty hard to Englishmen, but the jo is 'ho' not 'ko'. His name should be said 'rOho'.

Back to the subject, Rojo's been immense since returning. At the moment seems to be the best centre-half we have and the most able to play out from the back while being solid. Turning out to be a bit of a bargain.
 
sincher said:
Danger of overhype here.

Has made a reasonable start at United but he seems to be forgiven all manner of mistakes due to his attitude.
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You're right. If Smalling, Jones or Evans made some of the same mistakes he made they'd get a lot of stick
 
Water Melon said:
Jose is actually Portuguese, and they pronounce it differently to the Spanish, don't they?
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Yes. That's not the point. If you pronounce either name in either language, non of the letters would be silent. Silent means not pronouncing the letter at all, not pronouncing it differently.
 
Snow said:
It's not silent if you pronounce it. Otherwise it would be Ro-o and ose.
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You're being too technical, you get the point yo. Its Roho, its Hose (Jose), its Halapeno peppers. Phonetically the J will sound like an H but its still correct to say its a silent J.
 
West Ham 1:1 Man Utd
What in the name of feck was he doing just then?
 
Just when he has a couple of games where it looks like he might have improved on the important things, he has a ridiculously poor touch and lack of composure on the half way line. Its so annoying watching Rojo and Jones risking the points for the most minimal of gambles - even if he had managed to take the touch and get past Sakho, whats the point? A couple of yards gained. Instead he should have been getting rid of it first time.
 
Rojo and De Gea the best United players in the first half. Really liking him.

Little too much of the McNair and Jones style heavy first touch when being closed down.
 
Feel sorry for him and Jones because they are being strung out to die in this type of formation. Just letting the west ham players get free runs at them whenever they get the ball back.

LVG needs to take off a striker and throw on another midfielder to shore up our possession. It will take the pressure off our centrebacks.
 
Thought he had a good half apart from the yellow card incident. Wasn't impressed at first but I'm warming to him.
 
Said in the matchday thread but that yellow was hilarious. The best we'll get all season.

Took out two players on a break. Both yellow card offences but would have been harsh to show both.

Apart from that he's been our best defender, if not best player on the park excluding De Gea.
 
Playing with Jones is like playing on your own.

Poor bastard.
 
Poor today, there's no way you can pair him and Jones, both require a calmer head alongside them.
 
Yeah, I thought he was a bit reckless today. On a scale of 1 to Jones, I'd say it was about a Three Quarters Jones.
 
Poor touch for that error in the first half, but he was blatantly piledrived into by the opposition striker while Rojo was the one trying to play the ball. If Clattenburg wasn't clinically stupid it would have been our free kick so can't hold it against him too much. Other than that did pretty well against a tough, physical opponent in Sakho.
 
A disappointing performance I thought, after his decent few anyway. Should have played with Smalling I think because of Smalling's height. Jones was a bit all over the place too.
 
Not his best game but still the best of the CBs. Coped well with endless long balls to West Hams powerful and fast forwards and was there to cover Jones going walkabout a few times.

His mis-control moment was poor but i like the way he made damn sure if the ball was through one on one there was no way the player was going past him.

Definitely needs a calming influence next to him, but otherwise our best defender.
 
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