Considering how tightly he was marked and by a world class defender, in addition to be surrounded by utter shite team mates, thought he was very good today.
Wayne Rooney | 2012-14 Performances
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Rooney was in the pocket of Kompany for the whole game. Save his day with that wonderful freekick, but overall, he was poor. Talking talking talking...
One of the best today for sure, but still nothing to celebrate.
One of the best today for sure, but still nothing to celebrate.
I agree, but credit were credit is due. For the guy who doesn't want to be here he has been our best player 5 games in. I like Carrick but these are the games that always show why he is not world class imo, you can't boss the game on Tuesday and be so anonymous when we need you most.
This. He really did miss his strike partner today. The only two that operate on that high tier wavelength.
Nobody is celebrating just making an observation. He was the only one who played for the shirt today and that says even more.
Do we really know that he doesn't want to be with the club anymore? Bearing in mind that he's not come out and officially said that he doesn't, and, also bearing in mind that he's been our best player this season (so far), I'm of the opinion that catty comments like this are getting to be unnecessary. There's no reason to bookend every bit of warranted praise for the player with some negative comment about the man.
(Also, consider that I personally think that Rooney is at best a bumble-headed nitwit letting his cockbag agent lead him around by the nose in an effort to wring every last pound out of the highest bidder and legacy be damned, or at worst, he is Satan reincarnate.)
It's not a negative comment about him, rather more of an observation that he had the right attitude and fight that the rest of the team (Vidic excepted) were so lacking, which given the histrionics this summer is ironic. If anything, it was a negative comment at the way the rest of the team SEEMED to carry itself.
He was the only one who looked up for it, his touch seemed decent as well.
Just a shocking all round performance from the team.
Yeah was the best of a sorry bunch.
It's telling really. The guy who doesn't want to be there is by far our best player.
It's telling really. The guy who doesn't want to be there is by far our best player.
I've been critical of him but I can't argue with his performance today, he was the only one who had the balls to try anything in the final third and kept going until the bitter end.
Kompany destroyed him in the air but that was obviously going to happen when your hoofing the ball at him. When Rooney got the ball to feet he did well and played some good passes to Valencia and obviously scored that stunning free kick.
Shame he didn't have more room to play, I think he would have if Chicha was ahead of him distracting the defence. Game could have been quite different.
Shame RVP was injured. Both he and Rooney has excellent games in this same fixture last year.. when you think back to the first goal where RVP does that excellent chest lay off to Young who sprint and releases Rooney.
Average game today. But I love how much his dead ball technique has improved. You can see he's been working hard on it.
Of course RvP adds a whole different outlook on the game. I'm just thinking upon what options were available.
And yeah, that whole setup for that goal was magic.
That really is a glorious freekick.
Like the goal he scored against Bilbao. That counted for nothing either 
Best of a bad bunch.
Different angle. There's another angle that shows how high it goes over the wall and then dips into the net.
A shame it was so pointless. Deserves to be a match winning goal.
People who wanted Rooney gone in the summer need to wake up and lose the ridiculous and arrogant notion that Manchester United are a unique football club which all players should worship and aspire to play for above all other clubs. It's simply wrong. United are one of many elite clubs in European football, and most certainly are not the top attraction at this point in time. With this in mind, the club simply could not afford to lose a genuine world class player of Rooney's ability in the summer. If we are too maintain our status as one of the top clubs in Europe, then players like Rooney must be secured at whatever the cost. We have some very arrogant and spoiled fans who think we are guaranteed success each season regardless of the quality of our players and squad. Rooney is by far the club's most valuable and important player, an absolute treasure that must be secured.
The best of an extremely poor bunch today, beautiful free kick, still a dick.
Great goal and echo what's been said already: best of a bad bunch.
Fair play to Rooney. With everything that has been going on, he has been great and is leading by example. A few players should take note. No need to play him midweek, we need him fully fit next week. Because if we play like that, any game is going to be a struggle.
well taken freekick today, though no one will remember it due to the result. Same as his neat footwork towards the end of the game to beat two players on the edge of the box.
He looked good towards the end of the game, seem hungry as well. Seems like he is in good form and fitness right now, so hopefully we can get the rest of the team gelling and make the most of it.
He looked good towards the end of the game, seem hungry as well. Seems like he is in good form and fitness right now, so hopefully we can get the rest of the team gelling and make the most of it.
the only one who actually look like he cares and tried very hard to make something happens.
other players were just disappointing.
other players were just disappointing.
He was superb yesterday. I'd agree with Moyes that he was the best player on the pitch considering how bad his 10 team mates were.
I wouldn't go with 'superb' ... 'superb' was what he was against Leverkusen... yesterday he was the best out of a bad bunch, and whilst his effort has to be comended, he was still guilty of some really sloppy passing, (and some awful set peices until he finally got his shit together and put one on Evra's head and one into the top corner) and I don't think Kompany or Nastasic were ever really worried by him.
His free kick was superb mind... but he wasted it on this game. Reminded me of that fantastic strike he did in Bilbao... he should be saving that shit up for games we can celebrate!
Very proud of how Rooney is going about his business. It could easily have gone the other way but fair play to him.
I think he was superb. When the whole team is performing well, it is easy on the eye, but the true grit comes when things go shit all around. He was constantly the only person trying to engineer something and that is superb.
Good post! Many even here think as if players are lining up to play for free just because we are Manchester United.
For once in a long while Rooney actually seems bothered.
He is actually running at defenders with the ball and genuinely seems to be trying 100%.
I think that is all really the fans have asked for. When you see him playing in this form you really do question whether he was trying before under fergie.
Fingers crossed though he keeps this up, as a fit and hungry Rooney is definitely a player you want to keep.
He is actually running at defenders with the ball and genuinely seems to be trying 100%.
I think that is all really the fans have asked for. When you see him playing in this form you really do question whether he was trying before under fergie.
Fingers crossed though he keeps this up, as a fit and hungry Rooney is definitely a player you want to keep.
£200k /week ? No matter how bad the relationship was between him and SAF, I would have expected more...but yes lets hope he acts more like an adult this time around.
he played well all things considered, great freekick too - he's getting pretty good at those
he needed a bit more protection from the ref early on as city went through him a few times and got away with it, he got a bit frustrated and eventually got booked which in turn took a slight edge off his approach leaving kompany free to strut around like the big bollocks. clearly city were miles better and i'm not suggesting the result would have been any different but had kompany been booked instead of rooney i could see us being a far bigger threat attacking wise
he needed a bit more protection from the ref early on as city went through him a few times and got away with it, he got a bit frustrated and eventually got booked which in turn took a slight edge off his approach leaving kompany free to strut around like the big bollocks. clearly city were miles better and i'm not suggesting the result would have been any different but had kompany been booked instead of rooney i could see us being a far bigger threat attacking wise
He was fairly good but it's fair to say kompany won that battle quote easily.
Someone made the point that Kompany simply stuck to Rooney even when he dropped back into midfield for the ball. He could do it because there was absolutely no danger in doing that as no one else made any runs or anything that might be threatening.
Kompany was immense though, our lack of movement and utter shiteness takes nothing away from his performance.
Kompany is one of the top 3 CBs in the world for me, and was on absolute top form yesterday. Absolutely nothing was getting past him. No shame in Rooney losing that battle, especially as I agree with what Siorac said: he was doing an individual job on him because the rest of the attacking players were posing no problems whatsoever. Basically, Rooney was the one they needed to mark out of the game and by doing so, it didn't really matter that they left spaces elsewhere as neither Young, Valencia or Welbeck were going to exploit them. Rooney still managed to look good despite being completely isolated and alone.
He wasn't really good either but somehow looked like the only one of our players yesterady who was willing to put up a fight and actually wanted to to win the game.
He was not superb, no player in red was superb yesterday. He was committed and driven and I commend him for that but his passing was sloppy, his decision making was erratic, he was the best of a piss poor bunch who should be ashamed to bank their wages after that performance. Superb is what he was on Tuesday, or Keane was against Juve, or Captain Starfish was against west ham in the cup final, there have been many superb Rooney performances, that was not one.
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