Looking back to the RVP of old
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
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- Goals
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- Assists
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- Yellow cards
- 5
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Ran out of gas a bit in the second half. Was very good in the first with his holdup and linkup play. Should have had a goal and made some delightful runs which Carrick picked out superbly.
Obviously he should score that chance in the first half, had a quiet game apart from that but his link play wasn't as good as normal. Him and Falcao were nowhere to been in the last half an hour.
Totally non existent in the second half. Maybe didn't help that there was nothing to feed off from.
For all the shit Falcao is getting in his thread RvP wasn't much better, both wasted the chances that fell to them and RvP picked the wrong pass on a couple of occasions.
Very frustrating today.
Pretty terrible today too. I'm going to put it down to fatigue and hoping that he's not reverting to the old RVP again.
I'll say it over and over again...he is past it. Only gonna get worse next year. You simply cannot be that slow and laborious in the PL. I think it's funny how everyone thought we had the best strike force around...but now our best forward is playing midfield (quite well though) and our two strikers look past it. Falcao not worth the money at this point. Time is running out for him.
Very disappointed with him in this match...
Someone should remind him that taking an extra touch that close to goal is criminal. On that 1v1 chance he missed, either you smash it first time or you bulldoze your way in with a charging header.
cannot stress this enough, we have an attack that is based heavily on reputation rather than performances, which is quite unfortunate to say the least
Co-leading the team with 8 goals this season. Sure, he had a bad game today; against Villa LvG was getting killed for substituting RvP, as he was our in-form striker.
I thought he played quite well. Two bad misses (especially the one in the second half) but his all-round game was sharp enough. Cnut of a referee gave him no protection either.
He is looking better now, but still not the lethal top striker RVP.
If it was RVP at his best then he gets 2 or 3 goals this game.
If it was RVP at his best then he gets 2 or 3 goals this game.
Agree with this. Currently, after 19 games, we have the 4th best goals for record, and the 4th best goals against.
Have to agree. Based on this season's performances, neither RVP or Falcao should be starting.
We have an attack who have scored a very good number of goals from the chances we actually create. Today was the exception as we have been very efficient in front of goal of late. Our problem in scoring goals is the laborious way we pass the ball around at the back.
His performance wasn't bad but he's just not at a clinical striker. For someone so good, he always misses an awfully high number of sitters. Nowhere as good a finisher as Rooney. Neither is Falcao at the moment though.
He is moving around well, his finishing is just not there. But neither is Falcao's, who was worse than him today and it's not as if we have many options left.
We score three at home and we have the best strike force in the league. Two days later the same exact team gets shut out and RvP along with Falcao should be sent to the glue factory. Makes sense.
This place is rather knee-jerk.
He posted this on his Instagram.
To be honest, he is still missing important chances quite regularly, despite improving his all round game from the beginning of the season. Even with than under consideration, there's only really been 2 or 3 games in which he's played like the RvP of old, one of them being against liverpool in which he was fantastic. His finishing has generally been poor until now by his standards and his performances not consistent whatsoever. I would have him moved on at the end of the season if it were up to me or at least not playing as a starter.
His composure was non existent
He knows he fecked up today, he even posted a insta photo of himself falling over after that 1v1 against Lloris.
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I have been very critical of RVP this season but I thought he was alright in this game. Yes, should have scored and could have done better in a few situations but I thought the effort and the intent was there, just didn't happen for him. That's life.
There are far too many ridiculous posts in this thread. We missed a ton of chances against Spurs, it was just one of those days. People are so over the top when we fail to win a game.
I like that.Thought his overall holdup play/target man was good. Bad day at the office in terms of finishing.
That Instagram pic
That Instagram pic
I thought he was decent - finishing aside. Better than Falcao I thought.
Totally agree. I get confused with the amount of love Falcao gets and the willingness to jump on Van Persie after a poor game. Not one game this season has Falcao performed well enough for me to say "bench RVP, play El Tigre". Yes, he's had a nice few assists but his touch has been awful, has had barely any shots, and while his movement has been good so has Van Persie's so he is not adding much to the team (say what you want about Van Persie's finishing lately, but his movement has been excellent). I really hope we can get the Van Persie - Falcao partnership up and running -- and glimpses of it has shown -- but I'm so much more confident of Van Persie turning the corner than Falcao.
RVP has played poorly enough at times this season to warrant that statement.
To be fair to him though, he has improved greatly over the past month.
I think he's one of the most selfish players we've had. Not saying its bad - but not very useful when we are playing two no.9s
I'd argue that when people we saying that, it was because we hadn't seen Falcao play yet so were basing our opinions of him based on his pre-injury best, which evidently he has not come near recapturing. If we knew then what we've seen now, people might be less inclined to bench RVP so quickly when his backup isn't as good as previously made out to be.
I do agree though that the RVP at the beginning of the season was playing poor enough to justify questioning his place in the first 11.
Definitely. He will score next match and become great again.
He's clearly knackered. Man's been playing like almost every game for us this season.
Against Aston Villa he was substituted and everyone was going to kill LVG, today he missed some great chances and he's past it.
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