It's amazing how some players can do no wrong while others can do no right.
Robin van Persie | 2012-14 Performances
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No, you look at a players net contribution. As simple as that.
Loads of people think it was a chance he should have put away going by this thread so I'm not sure where you get the "can't do wrong" bit from.
Your pro-Rooney/anti-van Persie agenda is so see-through and so bizarre. Young fecked that up with a crap ball. He could've either rolled it to him so van Persie could walk right onto it and pick his spot or he could've fizzed it in for the first time shot. He did neither and van Persie had to readjust his feet with a defender closing in on him (thanks to Young delaying the pass for so long) so he couldn't get a clean strike.
Maybe I am pro Rooney but I'm hardly anti RvP. Yesterday was just one of many games this season where RvP has missed some complete sitters and pointing that out doesn't really mean there's an agenda to my post. And if I did have an agenda, then yes I'll mention that Rooney would have got bucket loads of criticism and even abuse if he'd been constantly missing sitters and had gone through a run of 1 goals in some 11 odd games even if he was playing well enough overall.
There's no maybe about it, you're the biggest Rooney fanboy on here and that's without even mentioning your username.Walk in.
See the best finisher in the league being criticised for poor finishing.
Walk out.
See the best finisher in the league being criticised for poor finishing.
Walk out.
Your pro-Rooney/anti-van Persie agenda is so see-through and so bizarre. Young fecked that up with a crap ball. He could've either rolled it to him so van Persie could walk right onto it and pick his spot or he could've fizzed it in for the first time shot. He did neither and van Persie had to readjust his feet with a defender closing in on him (thanks to Young delaying the pass for so long) so he couldn't get a clean strike.
It truly is bizarre. I wonder what these sitters are..........
I'm not criticising RvP. He's been absolutely wonderful for us this season and one of the main reasons why we're in the position we are in but it doesn't change the fact that he's missed a lot of easy chances all season. He puts away the difficult ones but tends to mess up a lot of easy chances.
Lots of them in many games even when he was in free scoring form.
I think you're expecting to him to put away every chance wr8. Even on
the good chances he works the keeper.
the good chances he works the keeper.
Well when you watch him put away the really difficult chances with ease, you sort of expect him to put away the easy chances that he does get tbh.
He should have scored, but I wouldn't have even said the chance yesterday was a sitter. Young played the ball a bit late in my opinion, and not fully in the stride of Van Persie. I don't want to criticise either player for it, but Young could have done better and Van Persie should still have scored. It wasn't a sitter for me though.
But it doesn't always work like that. Just because he makes the difficult often seem effortless it doesn't mean he'll put every not so difficult chance with ease. I think expectations are a bit too high. Rvn used to miss one easy ones too. The important thing is to score enough and the other times to at least test he keeper.
Note that I'm not saying his finishing has been quality the last 5 or so starts. But that's football.
Same. Good chance which he should have put away, but not a sitter and made harder by young.
Going by the posters here you would think RvN never missed an easy chance in his whole Man Utd career
I thought he snatched at it a bit. Maybe a bit too eager to get a goal.
Whilst RvP did miss that chance at the end, which he did snatch at (though the ball to him was a little slow) he also carved out only goal of the game out of absolutely nothing, getting ushered onto his weaker foot, but then still managing to wriggle back onto his left. It was credited as a Bramble OG, but you could see the way that RvP celebrated that he didn't care, and he made it happen when it looked like Sunderland were too compact to get anything from. Overall yesterday, his hold up play and movement were all very good, and there's just so much more to him than goals.
Think he might get a bit of a rest today, just in time for the derby. Another winning goal in that will have him back to untouchable hero status in no time, I'm sure.
Think he might get a bit of a rest today, just in time for the derby. Another winning goal in that will have him back to untouchable hero status in no time, I'm sure.
Young was more at fault for that missed chance than RVP. The pass was on for a long time, and if he'd played it earlier it was a straightforward one-on-one chance, just the goalie to beat. Instead RVP had to snatch at it under pressure from the defender.
Have to say I don't remember too many of them. The game he got injured in and the Reading one, that's about it. Played well v Sunderland and Norwich, played well in the Madrid games, MOTM v Everton, played well v Fulham and Southampton and then before then he had a run of 6 goals in 5 games.
Newcastle away would be one of the rare ones
This is the kind of stuff van Persie's been doing when he's been off-form so it can't be all bad.
His season has been tailing off bigtime...
RvP has a tendency to miss easy chances. Madrid and today will stick in memory.
Ok, that was a horrible miss.
He's been playing like turd for a month and a half or so now. I don't know if it's his conditioning or what, but he's been really shite.
Don't think today's was an easy chance. Split-second reaction for a hip-high volley?
It's not like he's the only one.
Another one to add to his list of poor misses this season.
Early in the season, he would've buried that chance.
He has missed some good chances to score goals this season, especially in Madrid. However, even the best players miss chances, and I'm sure RVP will use this as motivation to improve, if not this season then certainly next season.
He has missed some good chances to score goals this season, especially in Madrid. However, even the best players miss chances, and I'm sure RVP will use this as motivation to improve, if not this season then certainly next season.
Lost his finishing boots just as the business end of the season began. He's won us the league but cost us in both cups.
Wasn't the easiest chance today but anyone blaming Young for that miss against Sunderland needs to get heir head checked
Don't care what anyone says but he should have hit the target with that volley. Had a bit of time too really.
I do think his performances have dipped, especially in front of goal.
I do think his performances have dipped, especially in front of goal.
His finishing could've (should've) kept us in the CL and FA Cup. He's gone missing at the worst possible time of the season.
He thinks he's playing for Arsenal and his season ended in March.
No idea why we brought him on. He was crap coming off the bench v Chelsea last time, why would it be any better this time with so little recovery time knowing his fitness?
Been poor for a few weeks now
He's been shit for a while now, and it has cost us. I'm not saying that he hasn't been good for us this season since, if it wasn't for him, there would be a higher chance of us not winning the league this season. However, he has cost us in the cups.
Still should have scored, he's a class player.
That's a bit harsh, we should have finished Chelsea at OT.
What's wrong with him ? Turned into Robin Van Nearly in recent months.
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