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2014-15 Performances

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5.4 Season Average Rating
Appearances
29
Goals
10
Assists
3
Yellow cards
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Why don't give this guy a break. He is still a top player and hasn't lost his ability over night. One of his last games for us was hattrick against Olympiacos in CL to get us through.

He just need to find his form and playing in a team who is not yet on top is not helping. I am confident that he will become one of the most important players for us by the end of the season.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I was kind of hoping we'd find out he wasn't fully fit. The alternative is more worrying.
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Yeah, same here, but I was also hoping someone will reveal us that our whole team wasn't fully fit, because van Persie isn't the only one who was playing like he was. Anyway, we'll see him tomorrow, he can't have easier game to come back into form.
 
Jerch said:
Why don't give this guy a break. He is still a top player and hasn't lost his ability over night. One of his last games for us was hattrick against Olympiacos in CL to get us through.

He just need to find his form and playing in a team who is not yet on top is not helping. I am confident that he will become one of the most important players for us by the end of the season.
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I've tried explain that before but once the Caf gets something into their head there's no converting them back.
 
Give him a bit better service and he'll still smash them in. He's still got it. Also I think the added competition for starting places will spur him on imo.
 
Jerch said:
Why don't give this guy a break. He is still a top player and hasn't lost his ability over night. One of his last games for us was hattrick against Olympiacos in CL to get us through.

He just need to find his form and playing in a team who is not yet on top is not helping. I am confident that he will become one of the most important players for us by the end of the season.
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Exactly. I can imagine it is not easy to play the striker role when the rest of the team has been playing shite for a long time.
 
Sammyjunn said:
You know what's more frightening, that match and in the world cup vs Spain are like the only two matches he has played really good/excellent in the past half year.
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Lots of great players have bad world cups, Rooney is a fine example of that or both Ronaldo and Messi failed the score in South Africa. As for last years club football he scored 12 goals in 18 starts and 4 goals in 6 UCL starts, that's no where near a bad record. Not to mention he was plagued with injuries, was in the worst United season in the PL era and he had the likes of Cleverly, Young and Valencia supplying him.


Change the manager and those players with Di Maria, Januzaj and Herrera you'll see the best of RVP again. As for injuries it was often said that Moyes training was too tough so that could've been a problem with RVP's injuries not to mention he probably raced him back as soon as possible because we were losing so often.
 
SirAF said:
Exactly. I can imagine it is not easy to play the striker role when the rest of the team has been playing shite for a long time.
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He contributes to the shite play.
 
Big fan of him, but he needs to be dropped for a while. He is playing worse than Rooney.
 
RVP is still a class player but he needs better service and our play has been so poor so far he just hasn't had it. Expect him to start tomorrow with Rooney and mata in the 3-5-2 but how much longer those three will start will be interesting to see, they just dont work together because there isn't enough pace and movement. Wouldn't be suprised to see him start scoring and keep falcao out of the team for a littler while at least.
 
Roboc7 said:
RVP is still a class player but he needs better service and our play has been so poor so far he just hasn't had it. Expect him to start tomorrow with Rooney and mata in the 3-5-2 but how much longer those three will start will be interesting to see, they just dont work together because there isn't enough pace and movement. Wouldn't be suprised to see him start scoring and keep falcao out of the team for a littler while at least.
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I can't go through another game watching us try to play 3-5-2, especially after the players we've aquired.. We need to get away from it, NOW. :P
 
REJE said:
I can't go through another game watching us try to play 3-5-2, especially after the players we've aquired.. We need to get away from it, NOW. :P
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I know I can't wait to see the back of it either but I think we could be using for at least another few weeks.
 
People probably don't realize that only played 2 games for us this season. The likes of Mata and Rooney played 9-10 each.
 
Yeah he's been really quite again, he better start improving soon else he will find himself on the bench.
 
He's not been poor...just a bit uninvolved which is usual for him. A goal would do him a world of good though
 
He desperately needs a goal I think. If we absolutely tonk these (and I swear to god it's been ages since we've carried on after a good lead and got 5/6/7) and he misses out then he'll get even worse.
 
He must be dying for an easy goal by now. Something to get him back on the scoresheet again.
 
He just needs a goal to get on a spell again. He had a period like this with us in Fergies last season.
 
I think he got better as the game went on which is promising. Got involved a lot more. Badly needs a goal I think though.
 
He improved as game went on.but I'm thinking he will be the odd man out once Falcao is up and running
 
Thought he looked a lot sharper then he has so far this season.
 
Was anonymous in the first 60 mins or so. Looked much better when Falcao came on.
 
Certainly looks a bit better with his fitness and sharpness, held the ball well, but he's still not at the standard we'd expect. I'd bench him for Falcao next match.
 
Kag said:
He's a brilliant player but I don't see a place for him in this United team.
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Oh come on ffs. If he had put away that pass from di maria in the top corner like we know he can do, then you wouldn't be posting that. Fine margins...
 
Sorry but he needs benching now, he seems to lack effort and desire. He didn't do anything of note in this game.

Falcao to start against Leicester
 
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