What has pissed me about him for a while now is, how slow the game becomes, literally at walking pace when he gets the ball, there are plenty of times during the counter he gets the ball on the wing with several players making runs of him, he constantly ignores them and then passes it back to a defender. Its extremly difficult for us to play counter attacking football with him, he ruins every single counter like this. I thought his overall play was good, missed plenty of good chances, but there are days as a striker nothing goes for you it seemed like the kind of day for him.
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Stoke 1:1 Man Utd
Don't get why he's not coming deep rather than Falcao? Or they not even switching.
Falcao shouldn't come deep that often either. We struggle enough to get balls behind them as it is, we could be more dangerous with two strikers up top making runs.
Apart from doing well in putting pressure on the Stoke defender resulting in the the corner that led to the goal he hasn't been seen much in that first half at all.
Clearly he is playing at the point of our attack which is what LVG said would happen, with Falcao playing off him a bit deeper.
Not much service for him today but he has been active and making some decent runs. With the conditions the way they are it will be difficult to play him in with balls over the top. Maybe with the switch in direction for the second half we will fare better.
Him and Falcao are building a decent understanding together.
Not much service for him today but he has been active and making some decent runs. With the conditions the way they are it will be difficult to play him in with balls over the top. Maybe with the switch in direction for the second half we will fare better.
Him and Falcao are building a decent understanding together.
Only had 6 touches in the half, none inside Stoke penalty area
It really looks like we're going to have an RvP who will look excellent one game and have two games following at this standard.
Still one half to play!
Was absolute gash today. Why Falcao went off instead of him I don't know.
No change.
About the only thing he does right these days is those angled runs off the last defender for the ball over the top, contributes nothing else.
No service at all. Not surprising he struggled. Rooney doesn't create enough as a midfielder and most of his runs go ignored because no one has the guts to try a risky pass. The one time it worked we nearly scored.
Correct. Him and Falcao had nothing to work with, would have been a superb goal if he'd scored that flick.
This. Clearly need the midfield to see his run. Very often he was making runs and we keep passing the sideways or backward.
Very true, he wasn't good but he isn't helped at all by the midfielders' reluctance for a killer pass.
Rooney seems too happy to keep things ticking over with the odd cross field pass and lack of killer pass to a striker. That's one of the reasons I don't like seeing him in midfield. Mata is the same sometimes but against Tottenham and Newcastle he was much better at creating openings.
Lack of service from the wings. We just weren't able to get behind the stoke defence often enough.
We were missing someone like Di Maria to provide pace and service to RVP.
We were missing someone like Di Maria to provide pace and service to RVP.
What's with this 'no service' fed to him excuse?
His 1st season with us, he scored many of the goals all on his own, some half chances even...
It's clear he has regressed. Age had caught up with him
His 1st season with us, he scored many of the goals all on his own, some half chances even...
It's clear he has regressed. Age had caught up with him
Thought he should have went off for Falcao but he did have a nice effort which was unlucky to sail wide. Not really involved
Didn't see much of the 2nd half but I saw he got one half chance off a Mata cross pass, I don't think him and Falcao are truly comfortable as a pairing given they have similar leading the line tendencies.
Subdued but a great effort from Mata's pass, would have been an amazing goal.
How he is he supposed to make chances for himself or score if he's not given the ball by the midfield? There's only so much you can do in that situation and it's not as if he's not making the runs (which may have been a fair criticism earlier in the season). There's loads of times he's stood asking for the pass on the shoulder of the last defender but the midfielders play it safe and spray it out wide to Young or Valencia or turn back and keep possession instead. He basically had two 'half chances' the entire game today and he almost scored with one which would have been an amazing finish.
I'm not saying it was good performance today but he's being let down at times by others around him.
Anonymous today apart from the moment when he chested the ball down and almost scored. Not good enough looks like the Rvp of the start of the season is back.
Man Utd 0:1 Southampton
Rubbish again only seems to be playing because he's one of lvg favourite. I know this is bad thing to say but I hope he is injured because it's the only way he will get dropped.
He had zero chance and showed his frustration by making that stupid tackle.
Nonsense. No striker at this club is going to do better with the shite he was given to play with today.
Nonsense. He put Di Maria clean through twice. Not his fault that he gets the worse service in the league.
Yep, had one shot on target blocked he could have done better with but he combined with Di Maria for a few chances and his hold up play was mostly fine. The service to him has been sub par pretty much all season, can't do much if he's making the runs but people won't find him.
Must have been injured. I don't see why he would be take off otherwise.
Rooney has been more productive than him and he hasn't even been playing as a striker. RVP has been getting off very lightly this season, compared to the criticism Falcao and Mata have been getting. Think that's 8 goals in 20 appearances, any other striker would have been dropped by now with that sort of record at United.
For the umpteenth time this season that was a nothing performance. I'd flog him as soon as possible. Laborious, blowing out of his arse and a detriment to desired dynamic football. He and Rooney still cancel eachother out yet we still persist on cramming them both into the side.
From BBC: "More bad news for Manchester United. Striker Robin van Persie is to have a scan on a damaged ankle that forced him to limp off against Southampton."
Van Persie has been getting slaughtered on here this season. Unlike the others he has a little pedigree to fall back on at Utd. He's been living on scraps. How did Rooney do up front today?
Look the original point, which is the guy needs to be dropped which you originally refuted, the guy is clearly not performing and his numbers are showing it too, so why should we persist with him? Rooney only played 20 odd minutes upfront, if he had the minutes RVP has had this season uptop he would be outscoring and outperforming him. Besides that my opinion is based on his performances all season not just today.
We play with two strikers. It should be Rooney and Van Persie. Today isn't the first day we've barely created a chance. It's been a common theme throughout the season. None of the strikers have done as well as you'd like but instead of whining about how Van Persie is 'undroppable' I'd say it's more pertinent to be concerned with why great strikers are struggling to get chances.
Maybe he's not just good enough anymore?
All three? RVP, Rooney and Falcao are not good enough anymore?
Not sure how anyone could criticise him today. The poor fella was completely starved of service.
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