That's the key point. The supposedly better players are not delivering, time and time again, and yet Fellaini is being slammed. I think that nothing he does will help with this type of posters.
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It's only games like this that Fellaini gets praises but when you look at the game he did nothing more than the basics and in the end should have been sent off.
Take him out and put anyone instead of him, would we have played worse? Can't imagine we would have. Could have done better as he fluffed our 2nd best chance of the match.
West Brom were just too physically capable for him to cause problems. He preys on the weak and the disjointed.
Take him out and put anyone instead of him, would we have played worse? Can't imagine we would have. Could have done better as he fluffed our 2nd best chance of the match.
West Brom were just too physically capable for him to cause problems. He preys on the weak and the disjointed.
Why the feck you bunch of lunatics having a go at Afroman,he is good at something and at other things he is not so good. You play him in 4-3-3 a bit further and he will be more then ok,you play him in fecking 4-2-3-1 next to Carrick as someone who will build our play to break defensive set up team and he will do feck all in that regard,not his fault.
Maybe were sick of you all crying about Fellaini when you should be murdering martial for doing nothing all season?
i would rather have fellaini next to me in a battle than 90% of the soft supperstars.
He played well today, won lots of balls and worked bloody hard. I wanted him to get into the box more since he was the only one that had the aggression and ability to use any crosses..but he obviously had intructions.....
I thought he was very good today. Motm with Lingard.
Fellaini did well today. You pick a player to do a specific job and Fellaini did his fine. Not his fault the wingers/#10/forwards couldn't do their's they had plenty of opportunity
He was decent, did fluff one of our best chances though.
I forgot that Rojo is also in my candidate of motm.
He won back plenty of balls, and it shows he's playing with more confidence than after that fan booing incident.
When Fellaini is your best player, you know your attacking players have had a bad day.
Indeed, i thought he played well enough today. Came on here to give him a bit of praise, i see the usual suspects are going overboard though.
He was good today. His play was very sharp. His passing especially was very good. He held the ball under a lot of pressure and released it quickly with some good forward passes. He was basically doing what Carrick is normally good at, though Carrick was ropey at best today. Some good tackles and interceptions too.
Possibly could have scored, but Mkhi, who had just been sandwiched between two West Brom brutes, was in the way a bit. From the angle of the replay, it didn't look easy to put the ball on target and not hit Mkhi.
Possibly could have scored, but Mkhi, who had just been sandwiched between two West Brom brutes, was in the way a bit. From the angle of the replay, it didn't look easy to put the ball on target and not hit Mkhi.
Are you for real? We had our first choice CMs suspended which is probably why he played. And he didn't even play badly.
You are moaning as if Jose benched pogba for him and he missed a penalty, scored 2 own goals and then got sent off in the game.
I'm not talking about this performance only but a player in general. Why are you acting so shocked ? 4 years of Fellaini is enough for me. We could play Mensah or Blind and they would add more attributes to the midfield so don't pretend we didn't had options at all.
Playing him as a centre midfielder is a shot in the foot but doing the same for so many years and expecting different result is indeed insanity.
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It's always interesting to see a game, form an opinion, and then come on here and see other views.
I thought he played very well today, certainly for him, and most of the rest of the team didn't deliver.
I always think if we'd got him on a free, during a successful period, he'd probably have been a cult hero. As it is he's tainted as a Moyes-era signing, very overpriced, and is emblematic of a period of failure in United's history. You have to give him credit when he play's well, though, he can't do any more.
I thought he played very well today, certainly for him, and most of the rest of the team didn't deliver.
I always think if we'd got him on a free, during a successful period, he'd probably have been a cult hero. As it is he's tainted as a Moyes-era signing, very overpriced, and is emblematic of a period of failure in United's history. You have to give him credit when he play's well, though, he can't do any more.
Solid contribution, excellent squad player. A shame we didn't get the reward today for his industry.
He was a hero in Moyes' Everton. When I think a club's cult hero but more in mood of a squad player, I think about someone like Nicky Butt or pre illness Darren Fletcher but I would never even entertain a thought of comparing Fellaini to their status or contribution to the club.
Some people just arent capable of saying he played well, good effort.
He's the epitome of average. Being just solid is a medal of honour to such limited player
One of the better players on the day for me. In hindsight I wish Jose would have played him further up the pitch with the lack of attacking options available.
I'd maybe have a slightly different definition: a guy that's probably not really good enough to be a regular for your team but actually pops up now and again with big goals etc.
Man Utd should never be relying on a guy like Fellaini. Bringing him on with fifteen minutes to go, when you're desperate for a goal however, and him popping up with a last-minute header in a semi-final would see him loved.
Being the centre piece of a brave new era, however, then holy fcuk yeah that's not ever going to be good.
Kiko Macheda and Manucho were almost that type of players but in the new era I can only think about Lingard who can suddenly show up in places like Wembley and take silverware by a storm plus he actually still got chance to exceed an unexpected hero bracket.
This is how I would see him then:
He did played well. Moyes would be proud.
Yeah generally he is a squad player and a decent one at that. Had Herrera and pogba been available he probably wouldn't have started.
Fellaini played because of that and he even played well (even you said so) so I don't understand why you would want him not to play in favour of fosu mensah? It literally makes 0 sense. There's nothing so far to suggest that TFM is going to be a Midfielder. Neither LvG nor Jose have used him there.
Basically your point would have made sense if Fellaini was the reason we drew yesterday but since it is clearly not, your post seems a bit stupid. It would be like complaining about ibra after scoring a league cup final winner
There does seem to be a pattern that when he plays (and him playing decent / well) it seems to be at the expense of players around him.
IMO he needs to be used much higher the pitch against teams we struggle to break through due to the nuisance he will cause and the spaces he will create for others. Playing him deep negates this and id be happy defending against him if hes away from the goal and being used as a dictator of play to set the tempo.
IMO he needs to be used much higher the pitch against teams we struggle to break through due to the nuisance he will cause and the spaces he will create for others. Playing him deep negates this and id be happy defending against him if hes away from the goal and being used as a dictator of play to set the tempo.
Played well. He was even, surprisingly, passing it well through the lines. There was this time where Carrick tried to search of a passing option but failed and then just gave the ball to Fellaini next to him and Fellaini immediately provided an accurate through ball. Took me by surprise.
He had to cover a lot of ground because he had to both support Carrick and jog up to the goal because our forwards were restoring to hoofing the ball quite often and were unable to break through the middle and he was the only one who could provide some height to get at the end of those terrible crosses. He got tired towards the end and that was when I felt some fresh legs in midfield would have been welcome.
Still not good enough to be a starter. I expect a Manchester United midfielder to do much more and even be capable of providing an X factor when things are looking tough. He can provide good support but breaking up a packed defence with exquisite skill cannot be expected from him. If he had that in him, we would have won yesterday. Good squad option though.
He had to cover a lot of ground because he had to both support Carrick and jog up to the goal because our forwards were restoring to hoofing the ball quite often and were unable to break through the middle and he was the only one who could provide some height to get at the end of those terrible crosses. He got tired towards the end and that was when I felt some fresh legs in midfield would have been welcome.
Still not good enough to be a starter. I expect a Manchester United midfielder to do much more and even be capable of providing an X factor when things are looking tough. He can provide good support but breaking up a packed defence with exquisite skill cannot be expected from him. If he had that in him, we would have won yesterday. Good squad option though.
Did you also read the white text ? He played well by his standards which you probably think is enough for United when it's clearly not. I was not only talking about yesterday's performance but player in general after watching him 4th year in the club.
Our midfield with him always looks flat and too predictable for a team slightly better than Boro. West Brom had all time in the world to prepare for our buildups which was mainly slow and not passing forward.
Normally I would 100% agree with you, however on saturday he was trying and putting the effort in whilst those around him didn't.
"Trying" and "putting effort in" has now become enough to qualify as a Man Utd player? I'm looking forward to José giving me a call.
Jesus wept, reports that José wants to extend his contract again. Unbelievable.
Ah Good Lord .. you're kidding me!
No. Can't be true. Please. No.
Whoscored's match stats rate him our best player v WBA, with Carrick our worst. That sure does seem at odds with the majority of (biased-to-feck) opinions on here.
Hey stats aren't reliable compared to people's eyes. I mean not like people can be biased like squawka and whoscored are right?
Nothing is more indicative of our slide towards obscurity than the number of supporters lining up behind this court jester and the others of similar quality in the current team.
Based on his performance Saturday, he should start tonight's game.
He's already played more games overall this season than in any of the previous three. I don't have information about his minutes but in terms of games - he's getting a bigger and bigger role each season, it seems. He played the least under Moyes, oddly enough.
Just something I found interesting.
Edit: Maybe one for the "Signs of Progress" thread. Heh.
Just something I found interesting.
Edit: Maybe one for the "Signs of Progress" thread. Heh.
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I can't get my head around comments like this where you basically critisize people for not joining in on complaining about how shit some of our players are. I've yet to see one single post that states that Fellaini should be locked on as a starter for Man United for the forseeable future, and I doubt I ever will. I think most people are just giving credit where credit is due and some are just standing up for him because they are tired of other "fans" competing about who can come up with the most cynical way of bashing him.
Doing that is hardly the same as being fine with the position the club is in at the moment.
Yes, and credit to us for still being on this unbeaten run, no matter the number of infuriating draws. It can be both. He could have played to the best of his abilities and it still be apparent that those abilities were more befitting of the team we were playing against.
It can be both what?
and what has the draws and the unbeaten run got to do with any of this?
It can be both, he's put in a solid performance as well as: his solid performances aren't worth the money he's paid nor the position he holds at an elite club. Neither of those are his fault, and I understand he's doing what is asked of him. However, the normalizing and congratulating of someone doing the absolute bare minimum of what any Manchester United player was asked to do over the last 30 odd years is indicative of a drop in expectations from the fans and the club. That his influence has grown over his 4 years might indicate we are still not going in the right direction.
Our unbeaten run can be both impressive, and not impressive at all depending what your expectations are.
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