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2014-15 Performances

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5.4 Season Average Rating
Appearances
29
Goals
4
Assists
5
Yellow cards
2
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Movement and all that was great in the first half, but really uncharacteristically poor finishing today. He doesn't put enough power in his shots.

Looked absolutely knackered after 50 minutes though. Sometimes I think we should have a winter break.
 
Starting to not want him on a permanent basis. His record before coming here can't be argued with, I always thought he was really quick but that doesn't seem to be the case. May just be one of those forwards who aren't suited to the pace an physicality of the premier league.

Still like him, he seems to give his all. Just a shame I don't see many signs of him taking the next 19 games by storm.
 
Revan said:
Very bad today. Clearly he isn't ready to play 2 games in space of 2 days. No idea why EPL does that though.
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I thought he was fantastic today in the first half, he opened up loads of space for Mata and Rooney and he worked well I partnership with RVP. I agree that he shouldn’t have been playing two games in two days, that may have taken the shine of what I thought was a very impressive few days for him.
 
Don't know where the criticism of him in the first half comes from, it was a decent centre forward display just lacked a goal. Anonymous in the second but so were most of our attackers.
 
Getsme said:
I thought he was fantastic today in the first half, he opened up loads of space for Mata and Rooney and he worked well I partnership with RVP. I agree that he shouldn’t have been playing two games in two days, that may have taken the shine of what I thought was a very impressive few days for him.
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"Fantastic" might be a little too much considering the chances he missed.
 
Yorkeontop said:
Not the mort balanced runner is he. He's still at about 65 percent I'd say(in relation to his absolute best) .
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Could it not just be a case that the injuries have taken there tole.

I remember for years people talked about Torres being out of form, realistically he just wasn't the player he was and never would be again.

Not Saying Falcao has declined to Torres level but I think a combination of not being suited to the league and injuries are the issue.
 
Wowi said:
"Fantastic" might be a little too much considering the chances he missed.
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Fantastic is too much, but shite is also too much. He was average. Less of the kneejerk reactions the better imo. Although, I don't think his move will be made permenant.
 
What I don't get is why he is playing on the left and rvp on the right. Surely it would be better to have them both shooting on their stronger foot
 
While he was unlucky not to score the last game, he brought the 'unluck' on him today himself. He's had two very, very good chances that you'd probably expect him to finish given his finishing ability.

Ixion said:
Don't know where the criticism of him in the first half comes from, it was a decent centre forward display just lacked a goal. Anonymous in the second but so were most of our attackers.
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Not really a 'just' though, he's had two very good chances to put it in and he didn't, thus the criticism. Same can be applied to RVP. Good runs, Mata picks them out but they've fluffed everything today.
 
Crazy to throw him on for the 90 minutes in a 2 day turnaround. Absolutely poor management really.

Or are we trying to "play" him into form like RVP? :lol:
 
He looked a downgrade on Welbeck today tbh.

Shit control, shit balance, silly needless fouling and most worryingly of all shit finishing.
 
A bit much playing him twice in 43 hours, considering he wasn't fit to play more than 20 or 30 minutes a couple of weeks ago, according to LvG. Was poor today, but Wilson hasn't shown much more. Having Di Maria or Herrera fit would've solved a lot of problems.
 
Doing a lot of things right. Work rate, movement, etc is top notch. Touch needs to get better though.

Thought he was alright overall, a 6-6.5 performance.
 
Didn't look ready to play two games in quick succession. A decent first half followed by a laboured second half. I was disappointed with him and RVP. The second half in general was just poor, no penetration at all.
 
He was like a wobbly womble toy on the ball at times today, some great movement as always though and was constantly looking to get involved, no worse than RvP, neither did the job they are paid for today.
 
Never really felt confident he was going to do anything when he got the ball, the total opposite to the form he showed at other clubs. Hopefully he gets sharper as this wasn't fatigue like the rest of the lads.
 
Does anyone else find his reaction to being challenged a bit embarrassing? I know lots of players do it to win free kicks and get the opposition booked, but Falcao is a bit much for more liking in this respect.
 
Momochiru said:
He is missing chances and that makes him similar to Welbeck? So a goal or assist per 90 minutes of play is not enough? He is our most productive player at the moment - if he keeps the same way I will be more than happy.
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He is missing to much, again today we could see it. Goal or assist per 90 minutes is good, but when you had enough clear chances to score 2 goals per game (again, QPR, Everton, Hull, today, enough chances to have a much better statistic) and you don't have it even close, then it's a problem.

How much more does he have to miss so that some people admit that he is near the player (goal danger) we are expecting him to be?

And all this discussion because of a comment which can even be proven with stats (take just the Welbeck's stats from last season where he played as a striker) and where I even said TILL NOW.
 
Getsme said:
Maybe, but his overall play is being underestimated on here, IMO he was only behind Mata for MOTM
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Nah, cmon. DDG had a good game, Rooney was fantastic in the first half and an engine throughout, Young was busy and effective in the first half.

Falcao was a long way off 'good enough', let alone a MOTM performance.
 
DevilRed said:
Or are we trying to "play" him into form like RVP? :lol:
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That's poor if any. We were somewhat lucky with RVP, but we might not be so lucky with Falcao.

The chance he missed with almost a gaping goal is something I just can't give him any excuse to be forgiven with.
 
He looked really tired, has played 3 games in a week for the first time since?

Sadly, we had no options going forward on the bench. This guy will score a lot of goals for us.
 
Looked fatigued, especially in that second half. His general play and movement was pretty good at times. All was let down by some poor finishing from him. We know he's better than that at taking chances. However Van Persie looked like that earlier in the season and was given the chance to play himself into form.

At least he's match fit though, i'd like to see us continue giving him opportunities to find his sharpness. Our whole attack just ran out of steam too early.
 
Don't care about past reputations. He looks pretty bad. Certainly not worth the asking price or weekly pay. Him and RVP look so slow together it's just silly.
 
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JUPITER said:
Nah, cmon. DDG had a good game, Rooney was fantastic in the first half and an engine throughout, Young was busy and effective in the first half.

Falcao was a long way off 'good enough', let alone a MOTM performance.
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I think his work off the ball is being ingored here, in the first half he was opening the Spurs defence, I agree he wasnt as effective in the second half and as a result either was Mata, Rooney or Young
 
I think this was his first really bad game for us. Has been impressed with him before apart from that he has scored far too little for us (and he was signed for mainly that so..)
 
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