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2014-15 Performances

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5.1 Season Average Rating
Appearances
12
Clean sheets
3
Goals
0
Assists
0
Yellow cards
3
Red cards
1
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Stood like a lemon, when overlap was on staring at Di Maria bum. Rafael should have come on.
 
The more I watch him in the first team the more I wish our group of promising defenders in the U18s can grow up faster.
 
Boycott said:
Sorry to say but he looks so out of his depth in the Premier League. Seems off the pace on the ball and off the ball.
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It was his first game for ages but he added nothing and it's no coincidence that Chelsea's attacks intensified down our left after Shaw went off.
 
Moriarty said:
It was his first game for ages but he added nothing and it's no coincidence that Chelsea's attacks intensified down our left after Shaw went off.
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I get what you're saying but i've always thought he is a very limited player. Granted hes young and learning i still expect more. Take McNair, hes not the finished article but i can definitely see promise there. Blackett not so much
 
I don't think he's good enough to make it in the Premier League, let alone Manchester United. He's a terrible left back and only looked half decent the few times he's played at centre back. If he can improve there, then maybe he'd be an option for one of the smaller teams in the Premier League, but I really don't see him improving that much. Surprised he was given a new contract when he's nothing special, nothing special at all.
 
Why was he brought in ? Weird decision by LVG chasing a game.

It was like he was still half asleep.
 
khoazany said:
Shaw was slightly injured and he's the only left back on the bench.
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Could have just put a more attacking makeshift one at LB (Even Di Maria) or just put on Rafael even.

We were chasing the game and they were pretty much bunkering.
 
FromTheBench said:
Could have just put a more attacking makeshift one at LB (Even Di Maria) or just put on Rafael even.

We were chasing the game and they were pretty much bunkering.
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I was thinking the same thing. Also, I didn't mind us playing an emergency 3-5-2 in order to grab that goal.

Back on Blackett... the more it goes, it's clearer he's Championship material. No disrespect, but I can't see him make in in the Premier League either.
 
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Looks to me like he could do with a full season on loan in the Championship playing 40 odd games at centre half for his development and to toughen him up. That league is pretty relentless.

Then review it in summer 2016. Would agree that he's not ready for us yet.
 
Not his fault.

To be expecting him to play like a LB was never going to happen. I honestly think we shouldnt have brought him on at all and brought on either Rafael or RVP and just changed shape. Instead he looked like a CB playing at LB.
 
Puzzling from LVG. As others have said, even if Shaw needed to come off, I would rather have seen ADM, Rafael or even Januzaj at LB. Its not like there was actually going to be much defending to do from that point in the game.
 
Very poor again. Brainless tbh, don't think he will make a PL defender let alone a United one.
 
Yeah, wouldn't be too sad if he left in the summer.
 
you can't judge him after this cameo, hasn't played LB for some time and with poor diMaria infront of him it's always going to be tough. Maybe you can't judge him after this season either, you would have to think Januzaj is shit too then.

Anyway he's defender who can't defend and I don!t see him being potentialy good at any other than LCB positions but we won't play with 3 at the back anymore.. I guess we should loan him and either he has a wonderful season to restart it here or we will sell him for some little money. McNair, Tuanzebe, Fosu-Mensah, Williams are better prospects I believe.
 
Put in a very good cross but otherwise anonymous. Not sure where the negativity is coming from, hardly had enough time to make an impression one way or another.
 
Bojan11 said:
Stood like a lemon, when overlap was on staring at Di Maria bum. Rafael should have come on.
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While it did look like he should have overlaped, Di Maria never uses that option so he would have only being closing Di Maria's space. You could see that he wanted to but it would have been a clear instruction not to limit Di Maria's space. Especially considering there is a 90% chance Di Maria will lose the ball.

So while frustrating, it was probably the right thing to do by Blackett.
 
Eric'sCollar said:
While it did look like he should have overlaped, Di Maria never uses that option so he would have only being closing Di Maria's space. You could see that he wanted to but it would have been a clear instruction not to limit Di Maria's space. Especially considering there is a 90% chance Di Maria will lose the ball.

So while frustrating, it was probably the right thing to do by Blackett.
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Well Di Maria waved at him once to push forward, so I doubt it was a instruction to be honest. I just don't think he's a very good fullback.
 
Bojan11 said:
Well Di Maria waved at him once to push forward, so I doubt it was a instruction to be honest. I just don't think he's a very good fullback.
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Di Maria probably is under instruction not to give it to the blue team but that doesn't stop him. He is a very instinctive player and so is the game, so no doubt that some scenarios call for a player to make their own mind up on the spot but in this case, I fully understood Blackett not going, even though I would have liked to have seen him go.
 
He wouldn't have limited Di Maria's space, would have rather pulled a defender with him to cover his run and give Di maria more space.. Plus it was so obvious that Di Maria was waiting for that overlapping run
 
Sylar said:
Not his fault.

To be expecting him to play like a LB was never going to happen. I honestly think we shouldnt have brought him on at all and brought on either Rafael or RVP and just changed shape. Instead he looked like a CB playing at LB.
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Why would expecting someone who has played most of their life at LB to play like a LB never happen?
 
Don't think he is going to be good enough for us even in 2 or 3 years time.

Mcnair on the other hand was superb and has been much better than blackett.
 
He's just not a very good footballer in all honesty. To be brutal, I'd say he's a championship level player.
 
I worded it wrong.

I meant hes been playing CB for in the first team with the players around him. I honestly do think its difficult changing positions like that especially if youve been training for a while for a specific position. I wouldnt be surprised if Blackett has had all his training for CB (whether in a three at the back or not).

Kinda like how Jones went from CB, to RB to DM to CB. Although he was CB at Blackburn (and most of his career) changing these positions will not be good for his development and then to see him play his usual position will be a bit alien to him.
 
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