Hard to believe that he is getting criticism after that performance, but then nothing on the caf should surprise me anymore.
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Terrible analysis of his performance. You'd think he put out a Wayne Rooney 15/16 special going by this which wasn't the case one bit.
Good goal, tried things. But his decision making is terrible at times. Needs to act faster too. But he will improve slowly but steady.
Is it better than scoring and putting your teammate through on goal?
Certain people's agendas on here are worse than some English papers political bias.
Worked hard, tried to be unselfish, scored a goal. Yong and lernin'.
Scoring and playing for the team? Yeah thats obviously better.
If they had as many chances as Depay they'd have likely done more with it. Watford's strikers lost the ball 5 times combined and didnt have any chances from 7 yards unchallenged like Depay had
Yet Ighalo won a penalty against the team with the best recent defensive record in the league and arguably the best CB in the league, Deeney scored and had a couple of half chances
What were the other 6 occasions when Depay was in this glorious situation?
Depay didn't stand still the entire game and by chance the ball fell to his feet. He has these chances because of his movement, you can't refuse to credit someone because there isn't a stat for it. You keep forgetting to mention when he put Lingard through on goal with a perfectly timed reverse pass too.
Had a very good game imo
Sky gave him man of the match...
First half I thought he was really lively, linked up well with the other forwards and took his goal really, really well. 2nd half he did tire a bit but he held the ball up pretty well and played Lingard in nicely. He does need to be a little more instinctive though when he gets his man 1 v 1, he takes a little too long to shift the ball and make his mind up what he's going to do.
That will come though, hopefully he will play against PSV and get to continue this good run. Unfortunately with Herrera being injured it leaves us with another lack of options.
That will come though, hopefully he will play against PSV and get to continue this good run. Unfortunately with Herrera being injured it leaves us with another lack of options.
He's really dangerous in and around the box, definitely looks better in the number 10 area rather as a winger IMO. He still needs to work on his team play, there were a couple of occasions when he'd decided he was gonna go for goal and that was that regardless of what was developing around him.
Was a typical Memphis performance.Dangerous when he got space but decision making a bit effy.After that terrible patch of form it's encouraging.
I thought he showed a lot more good today than poor. That is a real step in the right direction. He was called upon and took his chance pretty well I reckon. He's been got at in the press, not had an easy time. This is not an easy league to join, and perhaps his attitude hasn't been totally right. I think most players underestimate the Premiership. But this was a much better performance and certainly showed his talent is there. He'll learn and I predict will become a brilliant player for us.
Scored first goal, set up Lingard with what should have been second goal, worked his socks off for whole 90min, if that's not good game what is?
Very good performance especially considering he's been frozen out both at club and country level recently. Always nice to see an under-performing player come in and show they want to fight for their place. Think the goal gave him confidence and it showed. Tracked back better too except towards the latter part of the second half where we really started losing control of the game. Hopefully he can keep building on from here.
Played well. Won't suddenly start playing well every game but hopefully finds a bit of form. Saw this stat on BBC as well
"Memphis Depay had 67 touches - Wayne Rooney has had more in only one of his 11 Premier League appearances this season (68 at Arsenal)"
"Memphis Depay had 67 touches - Wayne Rooney has had more in only one of his 11 Premier League appearances this season (68 at Arsenal)"
His confidence started returning after the goal. Offered us much more than the current Rooney, in his twin partnership with Lingard. Its a pity Mata slept through most of second half.
Slept through most of the first too tbf. Expect more from the senior forward.
Memphis was decent. Overall it was an encouraging performance with frequent instances of good movement and solid passing (particularly in those windy conditions). When he got the ball in dangerous areas he did mostly look threatening, and the venom/technique in converting those shots into goals should come with confidence, time and match fitness. The concerning parts of his performance (decision-making, chance creation, lack of control) didn't outweigh the positives from him. If he handled those better and didn't look 10 years older compared to Lingard in terms of pressing and defensive efforts, it would have been a fantastic comeback.
I had him MOTM. He clearly can do more with a pacy winger like Lingard next to him. Some of his decision-making was still off but his abilities are without question.
He has zero football intelligence. Despite his obvious talent, unless he can learn to release the ball quickly at the appropriate times, he'll never be good enough for us.
You should probably get on the phone to van Gaal and tell him.
How about we just give him a break, he was under a lot of pressure today and scored the all important first goal, not so sure many of our other players would have done if in the same position.
It does seem to me that some fans are ready to pounce on him at the first sign of a mistake, he is clearly talented as you say and has every chance of making it at United.
Yep, he can't win.
Indeed he can't.
Bizarre conclusion to arrive at after todays game.
But I suppose Memphis bad-decision making is the trending topic these days.
Much better today, looked a lot sharper and less laid back. Bit selfish at times, when others were better placed, but you'd expect that of a player his age.
Took the goal beautifully well too.
Took the goal beautifully well too.
He looks like such an intuitional player, but he seems to overthink his play since coming here. He took every chance he had at PSV, shot from anywhere, which he can't afford doing here (yet at least..). Hopefully he is under a transitional phase under LvG and will come out combining tidiness with impulse.
Louis on today, does he mean striker?
It's funny, most of the talk before he arrived was about how we should be patient with him.
That hasn't happened, heh.
That hasn't happened, heh.
Was kind of like a half striker, half wide player. Had the freedom to roam and move around like Lingard did, with neither really being a striker. Basically we played with two false 9's.
Philosofee!
Goal with a pretty difficult finish, very good pass to set up a chance Lingard should have taken, couple of decent shots. Much better today. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but I'm not sure why that seems to be the expectation?
For a player who's been widely considered disappointing by all, he still somehow manages to have the same number of goals and more assists than everyone's newfound darling Anthony Martial. At a similar stage of development and PL experience. Without being a striker.
You can't help but feel that if there hadn't been any hype, or a huge transfer fee, he'd be considered to be doing alright.
You can't help but feel that if there hadn't been any hype, or a huge transfer fee, he'd be considered to be doing alright.
Looked much better today especially in the first half, looked a little jaded towards the end but that is to be expected with him mostly sitting on the bench for the last month hopefully he can build on this and become a mainstay in ourstarting eleven.
I think it's more of case of some of his performances being really conspicuously awful. Overall he's probably doing OK and will get better, but when he's bad he really stinks the place out.
I think its mainly that Memphis has had some games where the basics have fallen to bits. Even in the build up to Rooney's goal against CSKA he was tackled and the ball squirmed to Carrick, rather than him actually intending to pass to Carrick.
That's why I was pleased by what I saw from Memphis today. The A's and B's of his game were back. His control looked assured, he was running with the ball rather than over-running the ball, and his shooting was mainly on point (not just for the goal - I remember him taking a shot from distance that bounced just in front of Gomes and could've gone in).
Comparing him to Martial, the main difference seems to be that Memphis is a more sensitive soul. When things haven't gone well for him early in games his confidence has visibly dropped. I hope he can work that out because he has the talent to do really well at United.
I'm not for a second trying to pretend he's been as good as Martial or anything, more that what the Caf currently considers apocalyptically bad isn't actually, objectively, that bad at all. I mean, even if he doesn't improve his game at all this season - which he's bound to do - and just continues this current rate of return, we're still looking at a 10+ goal debut season, which is fairly decent. Not amazing, but definitely not deserving of the kind of batshit attitude directed at him throughout most of this thread.
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