Was excellent yesterday!
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Very pleased to see him unleashing the cross field balls. He's growing in confidence.
If he keeps up this level of performance, he'll be our best midfielder by the time the seasons out.
Agreed. Started the season slowly but you can really see his confidence growing.
De Gea, Smalling and Schneiderlin should be the first three names on the team sheet imo.
I really hope with the somewhat easy fixtures coming up that he will be able to truly dominate the midfield and get into great form for the second half of the season.
My thoughts exactly. He can dominate the opposition.
Starting to find his form now and imposing himself a lot more, also showing his passing range which he wasn't doing at the start of the season.
I'd agree with that.
At Martial to that list and those 4 should automatically be on the team sheet with how important they are to the overall performances.
Absolutely. All very young, too.
Shaw too.
Yep we really do have a quality spine establishing themselves in the team.
I would agree about Martial but he is only young and don't want to burn him out.
Crystal Palace 0:0 Man Utd
Love the steel he's added to our midfield, thought he combated Palace well in there.
He's started to show a bit of form recently. He's probably been the standout the last few weeks.
I thought he started a bit slowly. Was pretty solid after that though.
He's our best midfielder at the moment.
He's played well recently, can't believe people doubted him after 2 months 
.. I'd honest label him the most consistent player in the league in the past 2-3 years.
.. I'd honest label him the most consistent player in the league in the past 2-3 years.Every now and then hes making a questionable pass, other than that he's playing extremely well.
His contribution can't be ignored, we're defensively solid and that's thanks in turn to his fantastic holding midfield skills.
He's totally pointless without a dynamic box to box midfielder next to him, you can't have two players that can't get up the field of play. Schweinsteiger and Carrick can't run, we need another midfielder.
He's totally pointless without a dynamic box to box midfielder next to him, you can't have two players that can't get up the field of play. Schweinsteiger and Carrick can't run, we need another midfielder.
funny how good our midfield all of a sudden look with him.. very solid nd superconsistent player who I am sure will get even better if get rid of this possession shit and try to press higher. If this happens he will win the POTY award
he¨s not pointless at all, we are pointless without him, but he would certainly thrve in higher tempo game with someone with a movement at least slightly better than Zombie, I think Herrera and Schneiderlin with Mata as 10 is a good shout but Mata as 10 will never happen it seems..
Okay, I accept this was the wrong choice of wording, he's not pointless but playing a player of his style does mean we need a more dynamic style of play. He's been fantastic in his role, we just need to find the best option to play alongside him.
With that I agree. I actually get your point but sometimes I just need to corerct everything to be perfectly sure people mean it the right way. Let's try Herrera as no8 and give run out to Lingard as the second no8 which will be his better position centrally further in midfield or Pereira but he doesn't seem to cut it at Van Gaal's head no matter how well he plays... I think it's the part of the balance philosophy.. LVG would rather have someone like Akinfenwa there than creative little palyer who would be a little lightweight...
He certainly loses concentration sometimes for a split second and makes a sloppy pass, but he's actually better on the ball than I expected. This is probably the most he has ever been on the ball before, at Southampton he would basically intercept then play it forward as quick as possible, it's obviously a little different with us now.
Seen on Twitter that he's apparently injured. Anyone know anything about it?
He didn't always play as the DM at Southampton. He showed alot more ability on the ball there than he has for us so far, still more to come.
He didn't train today. Wait for the press conference for more updates.
Whenever Wanyama was out they switched to a 433 with Davis and Ward Prowse ahead. He can certainly play the number 4 role very well, but yes he did mainly play as a box to box.
feck feck feck.
He missed training for personal reasons.
As in a family reason?
I believe it came out the other day that he was just sick. Hopefully that's all it was!
He's been immense for us this season and is a big reason why our defense has been so tidy to this point. Along with De Gea and Smalling, I think he's one of the most important players in our squad. Looking forward to seeing him back in the team against Watford after the break.
Agreed. Our defense Looks really settled - even with Shaw injured.
What a shame that our offense cannot match that Quality Standard.
Watford 1:2 Man Utd
I really like the added physicality he brings to our midfield and his composure on the ball in defensive areas today was very good.
Was my pick for man of the match. I thought his use of the ball was great and he was everywhere when off it.
Coming into some really good form!
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