Loved RvP at his best but he was poor again today. Starting to wonder if he may be finished at the very highest level.
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Can he stay onside FFS? He's killing every chance of a comeback with his frequent offsides.
I thought he was alright today, but I don't think we can accommodate both RVP and Falcao in the starting XI other than in the easiest of easy fixtures.
Not been the same for a while, even during the WC he looked off the boil in a fair few of the games. Not sure why he stayed on & Di Maria came off today. Would rather see Mata start in behind against West Ham with Rooney & Falcao up top.
he was the worst player on the pitch, slowing the game down in final third messed up two chances, always offside, very slowly running nto putting pressure on their defenders. He should be on bench at best. But yeah he will play just because van Gaal and Van Persie lick each others balls. I am really furious about him starting. Rooney atleast stepped up his game..
Got a goal and thought he would kick on a bit in this game. The others (Falcao, Rooney, Hererra & Di Maria) really link up well together. Not sure if RVP is still finding his feet after the extended break he had, but he does look slower than them, not in terms of pace, I mean.
Got a goal and an assist, but poor overall play. Held the ball way too long at times and killed a lot of the momentum going forward.
I thought it was just about him getting a goal... but then he got his goal and was still crap, so god knows whats up with him.
Tbf, he hasn't had a full preseason, and players like RvP who've had a lot of injuries in the past probably need a good few games to get up to speed. He'll be his old self come October!
Correct. His whole game atm is incredibly sluggish and laboured.
He needs to be dropped and fight his way back into the team. Anything less is poor management of the player.
Rooney got a lot of the ball, still don't think he's the long term solution in that role.. nor is Mata in my opinion (i'd rather see a Barkley type player with vision, dribbling ability, energy and drive in that role) - nevertheless decent performance, good assist to Di Maria and involved in the game.
Falcao - similar to Javier Hernandez, not involved in build up play at all but good cross and nearly a magical goal.. but absent either side of those moments and won nothing in the air and poor hold up play.
RVP - excellent hold up play today, everytime he received it.. he held on to it and got it off to a team mate. Quite involved in our build up play and more presence than Falcao - easily in my opinion based on today. Negatives - slowing up play, sloppy touches in the box.
If you ask me only one of the three would ideally play as none of them are physically what they once were, but if I had to pick who was worst.. Falcao and then the other two much tougher to call.
Slowed the game down too much today, seems to be lacking from confidence. At least he got a goal.
That was annoying as feck that, so many times he got it on the edge of the box and just fecked around with it before passing it back to Rojo or someone else out wide.
Better than Falcao today
Not for me. RVP went missing for large parts of the game, he looks disinterested.
His movement for the first hour was excellent. After that he was completely anonymous, aside from doing his best Inzaghi impression by being permanently offside.
I wonder what is going on with him? Is it confidence or is he too sure of his position now that Van Gaal is here?
Destroyed so many moves. Berbatov would have destroyed Leicester with Falcao, Rooney and Di Maria running off him.
Destroyed so many moves. Berbatov would have destroyed Leicester with Falcao, Rooney and Di Maria running off him.
Assist? Unless you're saying for passing it to Di Maria before Herrera got the flick.
For some reason he looks disinterested.
Yeah, had a brain fart there.
I love RVP but for now our starters have to be Falcao and Rooney with Mata behind them.
Great that he scored today, but I really want to see us start a few games without him. I just don't think he fits the team at all.
Slowed it down again today, and barely contested for headers within his reach.
Slowed it down again today, and barely contested for headers within his reach.
He's become a bit of a passenger at the moment - it's funny because based on reputation, we all expected Falcão to be the goal poacher number 9 type of player, always on the shoulder, with RVP dropping back and getting more involved. As it turns out so far at least, Falcão's build-up and hold-up play have been much better than Robin's. Personally, I don't think this is a solution to the "shoehorning RVP, Rooney and Falcão into the same XI" problem; wouldn't mind seeing him dropped for West Ham.
If Mata can be dropped after scoring then RVP can also be dropped.
Doesn't look arsed half the time
Thought both Falcao and RVP had poor games today. Aside from their assist/goal, they were largely invisible, killing the flow of the game with either a poor first touch or touches back towards our own goal or simply being offsides.
Falcao has the benefit of the doubt, this being his first start for us, but I'm genuinely worried about RVP.
Falcao has the benefit of the doubt, this being his first start for us, but I'm genuinely worried about RVP.
Seen this before with Berbatov.
Over the last season (and the world cup) RvP has become a proper 'Rolls Royce' luxury player. It bothered me today that he started over Mata, and it worried me to see LvG trying to shoehorn RvP, Rooney and Falcao into the starting 11.
Over the last season (and the world cup) RvP has become a proper 'Rolls Royce' luxury player. It bothered me today that he started over Mata, and it worried me to see LvG trying to shoehorn RvP, Rooney and Falcao into the starting 11.
Yeah, none of them had a great game apart from the first goal. Hard to say who was better or worse for me, but I expect more from Robin whereas Falcao just looked plain old rusty at times, which I feel can be explained by being the new guy in a new team and all that. Robin on the other hand should be upping his game with all the competition for his place, but he just looks all sorts of off.
It's hard to find many mitigating factors for him as well. If he for some reason isn't physically fit he should be left out of the side, as we have fantastic options on the bench.
I have supreme trust in Van Persie. At the moment he is the scape goat, even after a game where he gets a goal and an assist people are still on his back. It's still early days.
He wasn't great today, but he was better then Falcao.
Where was this assist? I think you're imaging his contribution is greater than it was, perhaps this is what LvG does also, would explain a lot.
And I don't think he's become a scapegoat - in fact, I blame LvG for starting such an unbalanced 11 rather than RvP. But RvP has been poor for a long time now - including the world cup.
Falcao's shot that hit the post... 
I hate it when he keeps the ball too long and hesitates to make a decision
Playing with 3 Forwards is simply overkill now that the midfield has had a full overhaul with Herrera, Blind and Di Maria.
I don't know if it's shoe-horning since Mata isn't that much worse as an individual player. Perhaps LvG just wanted a different dimension on the pitch and hence went for the lineup he chose.
He just isn't as sharp or instinctive as he was at his best.
The chance when Di Maria fed him should've been buried. RvP at his best does that.
And he takes forever with his decision making at times, his one and two touch passing and link up are gone.
The chance when Di Maria fed him should've been buried. RvP at his best does that.
And he takes forever with his decision making at times, his one and two touch passing and link up are gone.
A yard to two short at the moment, also as others have mentioned above, seems disinterested. Maybe not being the main focal point of the team / fans?
Attitude seems to have changed since we went shit, hope it just a hangover from the Moyes era.
Attitude seems to have changed since we went shit, hope it just a hangover from the Moyes era.
Di Maria has slotted him in 3 times in 3 games and RVP has missed.
Assist? Our assisters were Falcao, Rooney, di Maria.
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