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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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Speak said:
Lewandowski for me.
I don't know what the club did or didn't do with regards to signing him, but he'd have been great. Had we signed him and Kagawa, we'd have been laughing - to this day.
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Something that may interest people talking about van Persie's goal scoring this season is that Lewandowski currently has 7 goals in 17 games for Bayern but only had 2 after 10. Van Persie has 3 in 10 at the moment.

Obviously that just some numbers and doesn't say anything about the overall performance and Lewandowski has 5 assists as well this season but it just shows you it can quickly turn around if van Persie has 3 or 4 good games in a row.
 
sullydnl said:
We were pretty poor in that regard during his first season too (zombie football in all its glory) yet he still managed to look far, far more dangerous than he does now.
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We created a lot of chances in that season, he's not setting the world on fire but the constant cry for him to be dropped is becoming silly now, who do we play there if he is dropped? Wilson might not be up to the mark yet, Mata hasn't been stellar, Falcao is injured. People just keep saying, drop him , drop him, have they really looked around and considered what the options are?
 
legball said:
We created a lot of chances in that season, he's not setting the world on fire but the constant cry for him to be dropped is becoming silly now, who do we play there if he is dropped? Wilson might not be up to the mark yet, Mata hasn't been stellar, Falcao is injured. People just keep saying, drop him , drop him, have they really looked around and considered what the options are?
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Rooney up top, Mata at #10.
 
legball said:
We created a lot of chances in that season, he's not setting the world on fire but the constant cry for him to be dropped is becoming silly now, who do we play there if he is dropped? Wilson might not be up to the mark yet, Mata hasn't been stellar, Falcao is injured. People just keep saying, drop him , drop him, have they really looked around and considered what the options are?
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I'm not a huge fan of him, but I agree - there's nobody to realistically drop him for now Falcao may not be fully fit, and because van Gaal doesn't want Rooney as a #9.

Next season, I'm not against buying a new striker. Though that's probably wishful thinking, as van Gaal probably plans for van Persie to be a mainstay for the next few years.
 
Why can't he still take our corners?
In his first season, we went from being impotent from them, to scoring and looking dangerous, when he took them.
Better free kicks than Di Maria too.
I'm sure a flood of assists would help him to up his strike rate too.
 
There was a breakaway v City when RVP appeared to be wading through mud. And work-rate is poor for me, too, and he's missed some chances.

Not having a good season.
 
We're not seeing peak RvP at the moment.

On the other hand, which one of our players is playing consistently well?

I still think that RvP will improve as/when the team as a whole do.
 
We're not fashioning enough chances for him. We've got 'nice' possession, but it counts for nothing if we're just knocking it sideways around their box whilst they have 10 men camped in there.
 
I think we need to play more short passes around the top of the box. RVP is always looking for one-twos. The goal Mata scored came from that sort of play and the nice pass Rooney gave RVP in the second half also came from on top the box.
We need to centralize our play and our wingers and midfielders need to concentrate on feeding our strikers instead of constantly going for glory themselves.
It is rampant in a lot of teams. Strikers are there for a purpose. Their role is to score the goals yet in many teams you see players looking to score rather than feed them. I saw the Arsenal game earlier and was impressed with how wellbeck, after making a nice turn in the box, squared a ball to Sanchez for an easy goal. In our team a player in Wellbeck's position would have tried and scored.
Maybe its because no one feels secure of their place in the first team so they try to go for glory alone.
 
markhrad said:
I think we need to play more short passes around the top of the box. RVP is always looking for one-twos. The goal Mata scored came from that sort of play and the nice pass Rooney gave RVP in the second half also came from on top the box.
We need to centralize our play and our wingers and midfielders need to concentrate on feeding our strikers instead of constantly going for glory themselves.
It is rampant in a lot of teams. Strikers are there for a purpose. Their role is to score the goals yet in many teams you see players looking to score rather than feed them. I saw the Arsenal game earlier and was impressed with how wellbeck, after making a nice turn in the box, squared a ball to Sanchez for an easy goal. In our team a player in Wellbeck's position would have tried and scored.
Maybe its because no one feels secure of their place in the first team so they try to go for glory alone.
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Not going to be many one-twos or give and goes with this formation. Van Persie isn't playing well but he's also taking flack for a system that doesn't work for him. Lets remember when we played the diamond he had what, two in three?
 
What will annoy me is if he's played alongside Falcao when Falcao is fit again. Falcao needs to be up there on his own, doing his thing.
 
I think i'm the only person who thought he played quite well against Palace. Thought he looked much sharper. His touch was on point every time the ball was played into him, even when the passes were difficult to control. He dribbled well and made a few openings for himself and his hold up play was decent. I think he suffered from our safe passing game against Palace(no one willing to play the early pass to him just like against city). He played more like the RvP of 12/13 imo
 
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Not going to be many one-twos or give and goes with this formation. Van Persie isn't playing well but he's also taking flack for a system that doesn't work for him. Lets remember when we played the diamond he had what, two in three?
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QPR, Leicester, West Ham, Everton - so 2 in 4.

I agree that 4-1-4-1 is less than ideal for RVP as he doesn't have the pace to get himself away from the opposing central defenders. Best he can really hope for is that they both leave him, assuming the other is marking him.

Not easy finding a system that does work for him though. With the diamond he and Falcao were asked to track opposing fullbacks when they came forward. It soon became clear that neither had the fitness to do so in the 2nd half of games.

The big problem RVP has is that the dominant player is now Di Maria, whose strengths and weaknesses are a terrible match for RVP at this stage of his career. The only solution I can think of would be use the diamond but limit RVP's playing time to the extent that he can actually perform the defensive side of the role.
 
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I think he should be benched for the next match, but since it is Arsenal, he wont be I guess. He knows a few things about them and the way Wenger setup his team. Slightly off topic here but I think Fellaini is a very important player in this match. We need a little 'troublemaker' for this occasion.
 
He still has a very good first touch and is able to beat a man and get off a shot with either foot. So it is really quite simple. Look for him and give him the ball.
 
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Not going to be many one-twos or give and goes with this formation. Van Persie isn't playing well but he's also taking flack for a system that doesn't work for him. Lets remember when we played the diamond he had what, two in three?
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He hasn't really worked in any of the formations we've used so far this season though. The goals he's scored have been in spite of his performances, even when the team looked most cohesive he's looked like the odd one out. He really doesn't seem to connect with any of the players in the team and at this point I don't even know which system he'd benefit the most from. Besides, shaping the team to facilitate his strenghts could be a futile endevour considering the form he's in and the limitations to his game which are becoming more and more apparent. Also, you have to question wether a player who's showing such dependance is actually fit to be the star player of a team with Uniteds aspirations.
 
Would be a fantastic option from the bench. He can come up with a bit of magic and use his brilliant hold up play to help see out a game.

Rooney needs to play as striker and Herrera needs to be in midfield. Would love it if RVP could do the Olé role but won't happen.
 
legball said:
Because Mata has been stellar, hasn't he?
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He's been better than Rooney or van Persie so far this season.

Since from those three RVP seems to have the biggest drop in form then it seems rather logical to move Rooney to #9 and Mata behind him.
 
RVP seems to lost his magic suddenly, he still has good ball control but he needs to reduce his amount of unnecessary fouls and put the ball into the net. I still can't decide whether Januzaj or RVP is worse at the moment as both does not link up well during plays. What I want to see is Rooney up top with Mata and Herrera behind him. I think that is more effective than what we are playing now.
 
Kostur said:
He's been better than Rooney or van Persie so far this season.

Since from those three RVP seems to have the biggest drop in form then it seems rather logical to move Rooney to #9 and Mata behind him.
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Not even true that
 
I would never be pleased about any injury to a United player (never know when you might need them on the bench) so wasn't being entirely serious.

That said, if RvP and Falcao are both unavailable that means Rooney starts up top with Hererra presumably taking his place in midfield. It's hard not to be pleased about that.
 
Its not like he's missing chance after chance has he even had more than 5 shots on target in any one game he seems to spend the majority of our games like the rest of us as the ball is played around the half way line. Dont think I've seen a team play more back passes since they stopped keepers from being able to pick the ball up as we play at the moment.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I would never be pleased about any injury to a United player (never know when you might need them on the bench) so wasn't being entirely serious.

That said, if RvP and Falcao are both unavailable that means Rooney starts up top with Hererra presumably taking his place in midfield. It's hard not to be pleased about that.
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My thought exactly. Sounds harsh, but I would not mind seeing that.

Although the press conference/article mentions a hamstring problem, it does not seem to be too serious. But then again, why would you say that, our Coach has tied his fate to the next competitive match anyways.
 
Kostur said:
How so? His general play was simply better, he didn't get himself sent off for three matches, one of which was highly important and even the statistics back up this claim. No idea what more he'd have to do.
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Because I tend to disagree with that statement right there. He played well vs Chelsea, but so did RVP.
I don't think any of the 3 have been great, out of the 3 I would say Rooney has been the best of them.
 
In Rooney's absence Mata had 3 games to prove himself to LVG but he was in large very disappointing. He played reasonably well against Palace and scored a good goal so now, in most eyes, he is playing better than RVP and Rooney. Sorry but one game is not enough for me to come to that conclusion.
Mata did not and has not linked up enough with RVP and that should be his primary job.
 
He's definitely lost weight since Sir Alex's last season.
It was clear anyway, but when he took his top off after the Chelsea goal, he looked really really slim.
 
Stadjer said:
He's ruled out just to get some rest for the important match against Latvia. Hiddink already announced that he will quit his job if we don't win against Latvia. A fit RVP will be a huge help to win that game.
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Balls.
 
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