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2016-17 Performances

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5.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
29
Clean sheets
12
Goals
0
Assists
1
Yellow cards
3
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I'd barely heard of him before he joined but i was encouraged by his first half dozen games. He still didn't offer much going forward then but looked solid defensively.

Now he still offers nothing going forward (albeit not on his 'natural' side) but he's also a walking yellow card.
 
Yesterday even underused bench player like Young proved to be more useful than him. Not looking good for Matteo at all.
 
I would be happy if he never plays for us again. He is a complete coward.

I think he must have really bad stamina issues as he rarely sprints at full speed, he's always either jogging forward if he does, or if the ball is loose and he's going for it he basically walks after it until it's too late. I really don't see what Mourinho likes about him, he's just completely awful.

He suits a slower tempo and clearly England is just too much for him. Pack him back to Italy.
 
Lawman said:
Think Blind is among the slowest players I've ever seen for United albeit he is much better than Darmain.
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See, I think if they had a 100m race, Blind would win... because whilst he may be slow as feck, he would have the intensity and drive to go faster.

That, and Darmian would probably stop around the 50m, mark, turn around and run backwards.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
See, I think if they had a 100m race, Blind would win... because whilst he may be slow as feck, he would have the intensity and drive to go faster.

That, and Darmian would probably stop around the 50m, mark, turn around and run backwards.
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Lol I still think Darmain even after running and turning again could still turn and beat Blind. I think Mata would out sprint Blind in fact I think Fergie would!
 
hes not with the squad for the saint etiene game hopefully it means he's finished forever and his place goes to Young/TFM/Blind/Rojo/Riley/CBJ who are all comfortably better
 
m1y2 said:
hes not with the squad for the saint etiene game hopefully it means he's finished forever and his place goes to Young/TFM/Blind/Rojo/Riley/CBJ who are all comfortably better
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If it were up to me I'd buy out his contract and stick him on a RyanAir flight to Livorno.
 
I can understand why he won't be risked tomorrow. The EL is a great trophy to win.
 
Damien said:


Looks like he still likes Darmian.
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Thanks for the tweet.

seems like he likes his second fullback to be shit, if so it's worrying.. still think it's just encouraging words towards Shaw, he's said pretty much the same about Mhkitaryan but using different words earlier in the season
 
He's terrible one-on-one, but I think Mourinho likes him because of his positional discipline when playing LB.

He can tuck in and balance out Valencia who bombs forward a lot. We can do much better though, and I expect him to be shipped out this summer.

Either Shaw gets a chance, or we buy a new LB.
 
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In my eyes he played well, didn't stand out (for better or worse), he did his job and nothing else.
 
He was a passenger, should have been taken off instead of Mkhitaryan.
 
He was just a body out there. Hasn't worked out at all here and needs to be first out of the door in the summer.
 
He's a level or two below the standard we are aspiring for. Can't see him lasting the summer.
 
Devil may care said:
The task he was given suited him and he did fine at it.
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Yeah suited him down to the ground. Two centre backs to his right, one in front and Young to his left almost playing left back for him. In a defensive set up and zero expectation of contributing anything going forwards.

And considering all that yeah he was just fine, which says it all really.
 
I've tried to give him chances and benefit of the doubt, but he just isn't very good unfortunately.
 
Gerardo Islas said:
In my eyes he played well, didn't stand out (for better or worse), he did his job and nothing else.
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Zoo said:
He was just a body out there. Hasn't worked out at all here and needs to be first out of the door in the summer.
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stevoc said:
Yeah suited him down to the ground. Two centre backs to his right, one in front and Young to his left almost playing left back for him. In a defensive set up and zero expectation of contributing anything going forwards.

And considering all that yeah he was just fine, which says it all really.
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This.

Mourinho 'trusts' him because the way he plays, he's not going to be the direct cause of a mistake. It's the lowest common denominator but our game suffers massively indirectly because of him. Can't pass, can't carry the ball, can't overlap, can't keep a player occupied (i.e he's no threat) etc etc.

Blind and Shaw must be fuming.
 
He did a job for the defence. He wasnt bad or anything. But kinda hard to judge based on the fact we hardly saw him.
 
His best game for us since his first few games. All the heat was coming his way as Sunderlands tactic was clearly get the ball to Anichebe to try to strength it to goal, Darmian owned him all match.
 
Turns out that if you play a RB at RB and not LB he's not that shit. Handled Anichebe who is probably twice his weight very well today.
 
I am of the opinion that he's one of our worst players but I thought he did well today.
Kostur said:
Turns out that if you play a RB at RB and not LB he's not that shit. Handled Anichebe who is probably twice his weight very well today.
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I've seen him play I don't know how many bad games at RB, too. Credit where it's due, though.
 
He was a lot better today, but the way we play, i.e. very narrow wingers, it means our full backs need to bombing on at all times.

There were a few occasions today when one of our front three had the ball and either lost it or were forced to go back because Darmian wasn't always an outlet for us. This is why I feel Valencia takes us to a different level when he plays.

I do think he was better today, though.
 
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