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2018-19 Performances

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5.1 Season Average Rating
Appearances
38
Goals
1
Assists
0
Yellow cards
12
Red cards
1
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Gives the ball away like a man having a kick about in a park. Worst part of his game.
 
Mixed bag, some good interceptions but sloppy with the ball and his lack of speed and mobility got him into trouble a number of times, lucky not to be sent off as well, as was Mendy.
 
He's being overplayed again, didn't have any gas left in him after 60th minute, we desperately need someone to take some load of him. Was OK.
 
Slowly seeing the old matic return where he is so on the ball. But he ran his lungs out today. Looked very tired along with harrera
 
Had some good moments but far too careless in possession. Fortunate the ref didn't see his high challenge in the 2nd half.
 
I thought he was vital today in getting out of there with the 3 points and was motm.
 
Not really due to him that we couldn't keep possession. Our attackers needs to position themselves in a way that makes it easier for our team to get our shape back. Our attack was found countless times but got dispossessed easily, that makes it much more difficult for the midfielders as they has to do the same thing over and over, seemingly with no end in sight. He had a lot of sloppy passes but he also did tremendous work all over the pitch. You contribute that much to winning a match, you can't really complain.
 
Excellent covering and workrate although his passing seemed a bit off today. Still played a massive part in our clean sheet
 
His start to the second half was atrocious. He basically gave the ball away nearly every time he touched it, and it culminated in a cross from the edge of the left hand side with so much time and space that nearly went for a throw-in.

But think he did better after that but dont know if he was tired or what? his legs seemed gone at one point, then another he just sprinted to win the ball back after giving it away.
 
Truth be told he was class today apart from a sloppy period of 10-15 minutes after the half time break. Of course for a lot of fans that is clearly all it takes to have your performance called awful. The reality is he was much closer to MOTM today than he was to being poor.
 
Defensively very solid today, very important in us getting 3 points. Having said that he did give the ball away a bit and looked gas towards the end.

We really need to manage his minutes better, especially with an important run of games coming soon.
 
Mixed bag for me, had great moments, important moments and then he was giving the ball away left right and centre, at one point he did show a burst of pace that I haven’t seen from him since he moved here.

Totally lost Slabhead for that corner he headed back across the box.
 
He was awful. Extremely poor in possession and needed to be carried by Herrera defensively yet again.

Passing accuracy.
Herrera 85.3%
Matic 75.0%

Key passes.
Herrera 2
Matic 0

Dribbles.
Herrra 3
Matic 1

Dispossessed.
Matic 2
Herrera 0

Tackles won.
Herrera 5
Matic 1

Interceptions.
Herrera 4
Matic 1
 
Did his job, again. Herrera being on the pitch allows him to forget about pressing and concentrate on his positioning so opponents have to play around him. Stats can't show that bit.
 
IAmAWinner said:
I thought he had a good game, was my MOTM actually.
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Shaw was excellent, Lindelof very good and Pogba basically won the game with a perfectly weighted through ball, Matic struggled more than any of them too.
 
Fulham 0:3 Man Utd
Good game today, some nice passing, but stupid yellow card which iirc means he'll be suspended for the next game. Was hoping that Ole would take him out to rest him for PSG game.
 
He's excellent in this role where he can sit back and keep a constant pace. He doesn't have the legs for the constant chasing and pressing, leave that for Herrera.
 
Fracture90 said:
Good game today, some nice passing, but stupid yellow card which iirc means he'll be suspended for the next game. Was hoping that Ole would take him out to rest him for PSG game.
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He’s only got 5 bookings. The cut off for five bookings was ages ago.
 
Fracture90 said:
Good game today, some nice passing, but stupid yellow card which iirc means he'll be suspended for the next game. Was hoping that Ole would take him out to rest him for PSG game.
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Don't think he'll be suspended for the next game. He doesn't have enough yellows.
 
Yeah you need to accumulate 5 yellows in the Premier league by the 26th of December to receive a suspension so looks like Matic is ok thought he played well but hard to judge giving how bad Fulham were.
 
We really need another DM. He has played the full 90 minutes in 10 of our 11 games under Ole. Then consider the fact he usually played every game under Mou.
 
Had a good game. All 3 of our midfielders looked head and shoulders above Fulhams. Brings a lot of composure to our play. Since Ole has come in has been making lot more forward passes as well.
 
To be honest other than the yellow card I didn't notice him much today one way or another, they gave up in the second half so there was no real pressure in midfield.
 
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