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2015-16 Performances

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5.1 Season Average Rating
Appearances
33
Goals
4
Assists
1
Yellow cards
6
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Dirty Schwein said:
I was starting to warm to Fellaini but the way he is used is really getting on my nerves. The minute he comes on, you know our play will become that of the Stoke under Pulis. It's embarrassing to see that in the UCL.
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That's an insult to Stoke under Pulis though... 'cos at least when they did it it they had the right players for it to be effective and it was an actual strategy that everyone on the pitch bought into.
 
Bin him. Hoofball to a guy who was losing headers to players half his size last night (and other games too) is entirely pointless and completely ineffective.

We would have far more success giving a player like Pereira a chance off the bench. He can actually pass and beat a man, and is obviously a lot more pleasing on the eye than just launching hopeless balls into the box.
 
He's giving me hopes of becoming a professional football player.
 
I want to just point out that if we were putting in good crosses like Young has in the first 45 mins here, and decent balls from corners, Fellaini could actually be effective, rather than just lumping long 60 yard passes from deep.
 
I am not fan of his and his performance in midweek was one of the worst performances I have seen from a sub in a while but this is a game to bring him on, there is lots of space and they can't defend set pieces, if you aren't going to play him now then there is no reason for him to be here.

Mata and Rooney are both anonymous and look like they are moving in slow motion so I think there is nothing to lose in throwing him on at half time.
 
Roboc7 said:
I am not fan of his and his performance in midweek was one of the worst performances I have seen from a sub in a while but this is a game to bring him on, there is lots of space and they can't defend set pieces, if you aren't going to play him now then there is no reason for him to be here.

Mata and Rooney are both anonymous and look like they are moving in slow motion so I think there is nothing to lose in throwing him on at half time.
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I wish he came in.
 
Man Utd 0:0 West Ham
Fellaini as a #10 works pretty well against 70-80% of the teams in the league. He should be used more often. Throwing him on as a Plan B with 10 mins left doesnt help anyone.
 
Causing some issues. Certainly done more than Rooney has lately. And we aren't even playing hoofball! shock.
 
this is weird I actually think he was one of the worst, he is slowing the play the most, unable to control ball and make an easy dribble.. we suffer a lot with him on the pitch don`t understand how can we start him over Pereira
 
A team like United should never have such a limited lumberer at #10, but on the bright side he's less shite than Roioney and actually competes in one on one situations.
 
Are you serious? He's been terrible for me, absolutely no vision and way too slow on the ball for that role.
 
Unless he's winning back possesion he's a horrible player to watch. So slow and cumbersome in possesion. Reminds me of a tree-trunk.
 
He's been involved, I will give him that, however he messed up two opportunities by being selfish and then butchered that simple chance.
 
Fellaini will always give his 100 percent. Whether that is good enough is open to debate
 
You see the problem with him there. A real striker takes that on the half turn and tries to create a shooting chance. Fellaini just holds it up and passes it backwards, and the chance is gone.
 
11101 said:
You see the problem with him there. A real striker takes that on the half turn and tries to create a shooting chance. Fellaini just holds it up and passes it backwards, and the chance is gone.
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And again. Gets it stuck under his feet and is closed down.

If we wanted to see what we could do without Rooney we needed to replace him with someone other than Fellaini.
 
Pretty much any of the other outfield players would have scored the chance Martial put on a plate for him, but he just lumped it without looking into the keeper. Had half an empty net, or a chip, or any 'finishers' finish and we're ahead.

Sigh.
 
Not good enough, we will be a better team once he is sold and replaced in the summer.
 
He did his best, he's a very mediocre player when you are tying to use him as a ground based #10, did better when simply tasked with competing in the midfield, although I'd have took him off instead of Schweini who offered more quality supporting the attack.
 
He was pathetic in the air today.. Didn't even bother to challenge at times.

Then again, he's not very good in the air unless the ball is pinpointed to his head, so it shouldn't be surprising.
 
He does well as a midfielder - running at defenders for headers and hassling players. He did that in the first half and was much better than what he has been this season.

For most of the second half, he was awful. He can't play with his back towards goals and is slow on the turn.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
He was pathetic in the air today.. Didn't even bother to challenge at times.

Then again, he's not very good in the air unless the ball is pinpointed to his head, so it shouldn't be surprising.
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That cross that Carroll won despite Fellaini having prime position had me raging. He just had to win that header!

I disagree on the 2nd bit though. Fellaini is good in the air, but sometimes he just can't be arsed to go for it. When he wants to, he can be so hard to beat. He won a lot of aerial balls in the first half with ease. Then he just seemed to decide he'd had enough.
 
I'm beginning to think he's the opposite of Rooney...

He is a midfielder that is best ghosting forward. Rooney is a forward that is best ghosting into midfield.

Neither man appears to have the consistency within them to be able to reverse that when needed.

And I backed him to do better as a 9.
 
I thought he did ok but he is a limited player that offers zero creativity which makes him a huge hindrance if he is one of the attacking four.

He and Mata were the chief culprits of slowing our play and dragging the team backwards today.
 
Time to sell him this summer. Has a nice little run last season, but over the course of 2 and a half seasons now, he's simply not sort of player Manchester United can afford to be fielding. When he's bright he can be a pain to play against but when he's, and for most of his United career under 2 manages he's not been bright, he'd downright unfit to play for this club.
 
Hard to be mad at him. He's doing his best and he does have decent link-up play now and again but he's not a forward. Never has been a forward.

He's a midfielder. Not good enough of a midfielder to start but that's what he is.
 
Surprised so many thought he was one of our best today, think that might say more about the quality of players around him right now than Fellaini's actual performance.

He did ok today but he does frustrate the feck of me when i watch him, i've seen elephants on youtube with a better first touch. Seriously though how does someone train with a ball for a few hours everyday for years and still have such an atrocious first touch.
 
He should have scored but I didn't think he was too bad. In the grand scheme of things he isn't good enough. But within his own parameters of performance, that was actually one of his better games this season.
 
I was happy for him last season and he did well but I'm back to where I was before then. Has to go, I just don't like seeing him on the pitch at united.
 
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