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2015-16 Performances

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5.8 Season Average Rating
Appearances
39
Clean sheets
20
Goals
1
Assists
1
Yellow cards
10
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@Snow

Appreciate the effort but I still think he could have cut that pass out.

Not the only time in the match where he inexplicably just let the ball role past him either...
 
Whoa was he crap against Leicester. His technique is awful at times, his passing erratic and he is awfully sluggish from a standstill. Both he and Memphis looked fast when they arrived, and now both look leggy as hell. There is no doubt that Valencia would be a better option at the moment.
 
snk123 said:
So where is the Valencia bashing brigade who thought that every cross from a fullback should result in a chance? Getting some perspective now i think. Awful performance from Darmian and he had the most space in the attacking third.
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Is anyone here defending his poor crossing? So don't understand your point about Valencia's bashing. Valencia got all the stick he deserved for his crossing just as Darmian is getting now.
 
Not his fault at all for the goal, but he looks lost and doesn't quite know what he's supposed to be doing. I think the step up from Torino is hitting him and he needs to get his head straight. He's shown he has the ability earlier in the season.

As bad as his crossing was, lets not forget it was still better than Valencia's average day at work.
 
We vastly overrated him at the start of the season didn't we?

I still think he has the ability to be good for us, but right now he's makinge mistakes at the back and is worthless going forward.
 
devilish said:
Where was the reincarnation of Maldini/Baresi/Moore/Rio/Vidic/Jesus/Buddha/Moses when Vardy found himself with the ball in front of goal? At least Darmian and Young (who also messed up terribly) were actually in defense
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I was home watching it on the TV, what does that have anything to do with the goal?
 
devilish said:
Where was the reincarnation of Maldini/Baresi/Moore/Rio/Vidic/Jesus/Buddha/Moses when Vardy found himself with the ball in front of goal? At least Darmian and Young (who also messed up terribly) were actually in defense
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:lol: Are you being serious?
 
Really needs to work on his crossing, we are so impotent from the right wing. One of the reasons why we don't score is because we create nothing from that side.
 
He was uselless yesterday...but asking a player with very limited ability on the ball to be the main attacking outlet for the entire team was just really fecking stupid. It's not Darmian''s fault if the manager asks him to do something he is very obviously no good at.

If you put alll your money on a two legged horse to win a horse race, it's not the horse's fault when it doesn't win.
 
horsechoker said:
Really needs to work on his crossing, we are so impotent from the right wing. One of the reasons why we don't score is because we create nothing from that side.
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Never mind his crossing, he needs to sort his first touch out. It was embarrassing yesterday.
 
noodlehair said:
He was uselless yesterday...but asking a player with very limited ability on the ball to be the main attacking outlet for the entire team was just really fecking stupid. It's not Darmian''s fault if the manager asks him to do something he is very obviously no good at.

If you put alll your money on a two legged horse to win a horse race, it's not the horse's fault when it doesn't win.
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I agree, Noods. When you play wing backs, they need to be good on the ball. It was frustrating how often the ball landed with Darmian and he completely fecked it up. To a large degree, though, injuries have forced our hand.
 
Feed Me said:
I agree, Noods. When you play wing backs, they need to be good on the ball. It was frustrating how often the ball landed with Darmian and he completely fecked it up. To a large degree, though, injuries have forced our hand.
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Injuries didn't force our hand though. We didn't have to play 3-5-2...in fact the players we had fit made this more of a problemm than playing our normal formation would have been...and every time we have used 3-5-2, our wingbacks have been our main attacking outlet, so it was obviously what was going to happen. It was either a deliberate (and baffling) tactical choice or a worrying lack of forsight from Van Gaal...and if it was the later he'd have surely changed it

The thing that annoys me with Darmian though is his defending is terrible as well. Leicester's goal was absolutely pathetic. Both him and Young would literally have been more use if they weren't on the pitch, because at least then Vardy would have been offside. It is some achievement to make yourself even more useless than nothing.
 
Van Gaal always seems to switch to 3-5-2 when he doesn't have enough suitable centrebacks or wingbacks fit to play 3-5-2. It's like he deliberately wants to create his own problems.
 
noodlehair said:
Injuries didn't force our hand though. We didn't have to play 3-5-2...in fact the players we had fit made this more of a problemm than playing our normal formation would have been...and every time we have used 3-5-2, our wingbacks have been our main attacking outlet, so it was obviously what was going to happen. It was either a deliberate (and baffling) tactical choice or a worrying lack of forsight from Van Gaal...and if it was the later he'd have surely changed it

The thing that annoys me with Darmian though is his defending is terrible as well. Leicester's goal was absolutely pathetic. Both him and Young would literally have been more use if they weren't on the pitch, because at least then Vardy would have been offside. It is some achievement to make yourself even more useless than nothing.
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The shift to 3-5-2 was definitely a mark of respect to Leicester. One could argue that we shouldn't be adjusting our tactics so much for such a relatively average team, but there we go.

With Darmian, I'm hoping it's just a lack of confidence / lull in form, because no one had any complaints about his defending in the first couple of months, he looked excellent.

Young fecked up the offside trap a couple of times yesterday, always a risk when you play players out of position.
 
I hadn't seen anything of Darmian before we signed him but plenty on here were telling me he's a far better player than Coleman. Not a chance.
 
Feed Me said:
The shift to 3-5-2 was definitely a mark of respect to Leicester. One could argue that we shouldn't be adjusting our tactics so much for such a relatively average team, but there we go.

With Darmian, I'm hoping it's just a lack of confidence / lull in form, because no one had any complaints about his defending in the first couple of months, he looked excellent.

Young fecked up the offside trap a couple of times yesterday, always a risk when you play players out of position.
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It's a big shift of tactics...because every time we use 3-5-2, our main attacking threat is from the wingbacks...so effectively we were asking Darmian to win the game for us going forwards...is this clever? If I told you before the game Darmian would be our main attacking outlet, would you have told me "that's a good idea"?

Not only that but our centreback trio consisted of two players who are used to playing as a pair and one who'd barely featured all season...which showed with our disorganised, clown like defending. It also seemed to make us extrmely exposed on the counter...every time we lost the ball Leicester seemed to outnumber us going forwards. Smallling bailled us out twice...Leicester fecking up easy passes bailed us out twice. De Gea bailed us out once.

The only thng we (eventually) did effectively was keep the ball...which we do just fine with four at the back anyway.

It was just odd as usual. We had about 70% of the ball but you're watching thinking "they look like scoring more than we do"...because of our sillly set up.
 
I bet those that said he was better than Clyne/Coleman are feeling a little foolish now.

Both are 1000x better in attack and better defensively.

They're the RB we should've gone for.
 
Typical overreaction as usual. He's in his first season in England, he started well but now is going through a difficult patch. It is way to early to be slating him as much as some of you are.
 
In the modern era he is nowhere near good enough on the ball to be playing rb for us. I think he is a weak enough defender also.
 
dannyrhinos89 said:
I bet those that said he was better than Clyne/Coleman are feeling a little foolish now.

Both are 1000x better in attack and better defensively.

They're the RB we should've gone for.
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And when they feck up and have shit games like every other player under the sun, we will look at other players, and collectively wish once again that we had them instead.
 
Jagga7 said:
Typical overreaction as usual. He's in his first season in England, he started well but now is going through a difficult patch. It is way to early to be slating him as much as some of you are.
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He cant get the basics right. You can go whistle dixie if you think you can make an excuse for that.
 
He was woeful yesterday. I'm quickly changing my view on him. He looks rubbish both defending and attacking.

Get rid - or try and get rid.
 
Jagga7 said:
Typical overreaction as usual. He's in his first season in England, he started well but now is going through a difficult patch. It is way to early to be slating him as much as some of you are.
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Yup. This is common theme across football fans nowadays though. Very quick to elevate someone and bring down based on just handful of games.
 
Going through one of those spells .We've seen what he can do so no reason for him not to find form again.
 
kr0nix said:
And when they feck up and have shit games like every other player under the sun, we will look at other players, and collectively wish once again that we had them instead.
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They are both better and always were. Darmian isn't a bad player but nowadays fullbacks need to be better in attack than defence. Clyne and coleman would've been much better options.
 
dannyrhinos89 said:
They are both better and always were. Darmian isn't a bad player but nowadays fullbacks need to be better in attack than defence. Clyne and coleman would've been much better options.
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Coleman yep Clyne not for me. Darmain is going through a rough patch but he'll come good. We should have signed or tried to sign Coleman as we really need someone to give us a threat against the teams that park the bus.
 
He's very good at defending but we really need more going forward from him. We created so many good openings for him yesterday which deserved better delivery. It just messes up really good moves.
 
He is in poor form but he's still a good defender. What I dont undertand is why not have him stay back but instead "overload" the right wing with an additional attacker
 
Jagga7 said:
Typical overreaction as usual. He's in his first season in England, he started well but now is going through a difficult patch. It is way to early to be slating him as much as some of you are.
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This. Judging by these standards, Evra and Vidic would have been gone after a few months as well.

Not saying he's a sure thing to come good, but a new player - who's a very humble, shy individual by all accounts (which might explain his low confidence whilst settling into a new team/language), to a new league....etc.
 
People overreacting massively on here.

People who have seen him for Torino and Italy know his quality, he's still adjusting to the league.

He's a very good fullback, he just needs some time to bed in.

After the way Evra's time went at United, you'd think some people would learn to be a little patient.
 
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