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2015-16 Performances

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5.4 Season Average Rating
Appearances
45
Goals
7
Assists
5
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. Both Memphis and Rooney have been utter dross in every single game in the PL this year. They've done next to nothing. Yes, there is a big issue with Mata on the right but those two are our biggest drawbacks right now. Playing well against brugge means feck all as we've seen from their performances in the following games vs Newcastle and now swansea. We couldn't sign another attacker soon enough.
 
Looked like he downed tools in the second half to me. Was more interested in throwing himself on the floor and moaning at the ref.
 
***Glass half-full head on***

He's a youngster finding his feet in a new league, and has shown plenty of flashes of ability. So some leeway should be given.

But he needs to be less selfish if you ask me. Currently Nani-esque with his ability to go from the sublime to the frustrating in the blink of an eye.
 
For a #7, he depends so much on Luke Shaw making a forward run and creating space for him to do anything meaningful. His lack of pace is rather concerning.
 
Simply gave up in the second half, I don't usually do this but what kind of idiotic character did I just watch, the team was down and all he could do was moan and throw himself to the ground at any slightest touch. Stupid.
 
gonna have to be patient with this guy, ignore all the going to ground and wasteful possession.
it is criminal he'll have to be such a key player already for us.
is the sort we should have spent a season easing in
 
Wednesday at Stoke said:
For a #7, he depends so much on Luke Shaw making a forward run and creating space for him to do anything meaningful. His lack of pace is rather concerning.
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He's been incapable of taking players on and making space for himself. He basically just let Shaw do his job for him. His passing is also horrendous.
 
He's been like this practically every game in the PL so far. All his magical moments have come in the two legs vs Brugge. He's yet to have above a 4/10 performance yet in the league for me, and the same goes for Rooney. I would be very very surprised and disappointed if we go in to the season without buying another attacker. And a very good one, at that. Yes, he's young. Yes, he's got buckets of potential and Yes, he's been absolutely abysmal in the league so far. I'm not going to dress it up just because he's young and shows an odd exciting moment here and there. He should be a second option to an already established attacker. I don't understand how we can have any hope of winning the title with him as our main creative/attacking outlet. Rooney as our main goal scoring option gives me no comfort as well.
 
Not sure why he stayed on ahead of mata. Definitely a promising player but we should have got in another established attacker do we didn't need to rely on him this much.
 
I'm a big fan but he was pretty rubbish today, wasn't in the match at all really apart from the first 15.
 
RonaldoVII said:
He spends half the match on the floor. Young did more when he came on
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Young also had plenty of space and many 1-on-1 situations that he didn't handle well. Memphis was constantly faced with two guys cutting all of his lanes off. Nonetheless, he has to find other ways to be effective then, especially make runs off the ball, even if it's just to open their defense up. He couldn't do anything with the ball today so he started being lazy and that's poor.
 
An awful day from him, he's young and will learn but needs to be dropped for a couple of games to wise up.

He fell on his arse today more than falcao did last season, kept losing the ball and failed to cover properly for shaw, he's too casual and needs some hairdryer treatment asap.
 
He is a young talent, but I think even he would agree that the BPL is a different standard than the Dutch league. He is showing the desire to improve but at this point he is only potential.
 
Got to say I'm a bit surprised by the slating he's getting on here. Wasn't great by any means, and had some poor moments, but he still looked about the most likely source of something happening. Kept trying stuff, even if not much came off... are you all turning into LVG "keep it safe" clones?

To be clear, I'm not saying that he had a good game, just that nobody did, and at least he was trying.
 
I thought he got fouled a few times today, but nothing doing from the referee. You need to get back up if you don't get the decision, rather than slapping your hands on the ground.

Did well in spells, especially the cut in and ball to Herrera which Mata pulled wide. Some of his crosses were good too, which we're pretty terrible at attacking. But he can look very lazy when we don't have the ball.
 
Get used to it, he's a kid and has loads to learn.

The problem is no one else in this attack can give him a breather. The team don't look to the other side because they know they'll create nothing and turn back.

Not good that MUFC are almost relying on a kid to spark us into life.
 
Sir A1ex said:
Got to say I'm a bit surprised by the slating he's getting on here. Wasn't great by any means, and had some poor moments, but he still looked about the most likely source of something happening. Kept trying stuff, even if not much came off... are you all turning into LVG "keep it safe" clones?

To be clear, I'm not saying that he had a good game, just that nobody did, and at least he was trying.
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What did he try? He deferred to Shaw all day long.
 
Sir A1ex said:
Got to say I'm a bit surprised by the slating he's getting on here. Wasn't great by any means, and had some poor moments, but he still looked about the most likely source of something happening. Kept trying stuff, even if not much came off... are you all turning into LVG "keep it safe" clones?

To be clear, I'm not saying that he had a good game, just that nobody did, and at least he was trying.
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What on earth game did you watch?

He didn't try anything, he was routinely stuffing up 2 yard passes and falling over. In fact, the most disappointing aspect of his performance was that he was so utterly useless at doing the simple things.
 
acnumber9 said:
What did he try? He deferred to Shaw all day long.
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Gave him little support too, on or off the ball. He gave the ball to Shaw on the left, then ran into the box. The pace of Shaw and Memphis against the full backs could be dangerous, but we rarely see them attack in tandem. Memphis always comes inside and Shaw is mostly isolated.
 
Hed Zitin said:
Get used to it, he's a kid and has loads to learn.

The problem is no one else in this attack can give him a breather. The team don't look to the other side because they know they'll create nothing and turn back.

Not good that MUFC are almost relying on a kid to spark us into life.
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Yup, not his fault that we are depending heavily on him. No wonder we are looking absolutely woeful going forward with Rooney declining and Memphis still finding his feet.
 
He's still young, first season at United and has lots to learn. No he's not going to be our next CR7 just yet. Probably has a lot of talent but stepping up to the Premier League is a whole new ball game. Really needs to find some consistency quickly and cut out all those poor decision making, else he might even up like Nani. Hope not.
 
He's going to have lots of games like this I imagine, it's not fair to criticise him as he's so young and new to the league though. I said before the season started I was surprised so many people had him in their strongest XI because I thought it would take time for him to settle. I think he's going to be a Nani-esque player, hot and cold.
 
Sir A1ex said:
Got to say I'm a bit surprised by the slating he's getting on here. Wasn't great by any means, and had some poor moments, but he still looked about the most likely source of something happening. Kept trying stuff, even if not much came off... are you all turning into LVG "keep it safe" clones?

To be clear, I'm not saying that he had a good game, just that nobody did, and at least he was trying.
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Agreed, people want risk taking then when a young player who is going to be inconsistent just by the virtue of being a young player tries to make an impact he gets hammered.

If we played fast football in a 4 3 3 and took some risks hed tear it to bits and get a few goals. Its just him on his own most of the time trying to cut in and make stuff happen, hes a good player but you cant expect him to be Hazard in his first season.
 
Perhaps it's tactics, tiredness or something else but it strikes me that he doesn't have much 'battle' in him - almost as he gives up when he's not getting the ball and things aren't going right.

Probably reading too much into a bad performance...
 
He's new to the league, young. Deserves a lot of time to get settled properly. He tried but the game seemed to passed him by. Am sure he will come good. He's got talent. Just needs to know when to dribble and when to pass. Seems to take a lot of time on the ball.
 
Haven't bothered to read everything, but for goodness sake, this guy has a raw talent, but has only played in the Dutch league. He will learn so much this season about what it takes to play in the EPL. It's not going to happen this season, perhaps marginally better next season, but he has the raw talent to make it work.
 
izzydiggler said:
Perhaps it's tactics, tiredness or something else but it strikes me that he doesn't have much 'battle' in him - almost as he gives up when he's not getting the ball and things aren't going right.
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Picking your post purely as en example, but this sounds all too like the Nani haters. If he's treated the same way, I can see a similarly frustrating 6 years or so. Just give the guy a chance, and judge him by standards that are appropriate to how he plays.
 
He should be here, with time to develop, and work his way into the team.

But because our attack is so piss poor, he's been thrown straight into the deep end, and expected to perform miracles.
 
He needs a bloody rest. People forget hes only 21, and hes played what, 5 games in something like 12 days? I knew it wouldnt happen, but he should have been rested for Young today (or even the Brugges match).

LVG is doing to him what Moyes did to Januzaj. Relying so much on him and you could see he was tired. No reason why he played the 90 minutes today when you could see he has been tiring for a game or two now.
 
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