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2014-15 Performances

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5.9 Season Average Rating
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37
Goals
14
Assists
6
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Considering how much praise he got in the last game, I thought we will see different United with him up front in bit more competitive game. It obviously didn't happen.

His overall play was decent, but he barely showed any goal threat at all. Average performance.
Van Persie is far from his best partner, and he is far from great as lone striker either, so to make the best out of him he needs pacey striker next to/ahead of him. Which we don't have.
 
He was okay. Didn't like how the commentators were saying how he never gives away the ball when he did it at least twice in the first half.
 
He just is not that good, he hasn't been for a few years. A player who's best features were physicality, pace and power and looked like a grown man at 16, it isn't hard to see that he has lost so much of which made him stand out. He developed and peaked early. Put him in any other PL team and he would be found out, he's in a bubble at United where everything that he does poorly is down to circumstance, f.x. he needs X amount of games before he can play well, he needs this player and that player to be playing alongside him.
He even escapes media criticism for the most part, absolutely clueless punditry today where he was said to be brilliant in the first half and that he did a wonderful job in midfield in the last few games.
He's nowadays an okay player, far from the world class player that we need in that position, especially now that he has the armband that excludes him from being substituted.
 
The day when both van Persie and Rooney (and obviously Falcao) have moved on will probably be the day this team can really take new shape.
 
He only had 3 shots, one on target, one blocked and one off target.
 
Thought he was poor today. I wouldn't be upset to see him go in the summer in the summer tbh, think Fergie was right about him, he saw the decline coming. Maybe I'm being harsh though.
 
He is a striker and isn't scoring many goals this days.. I have had enough of him, Falcao and Persie.
 
He's got the same disgruntled look as he did in the latter stages under Fergie, also performing worse then he did under Moyes so make of that what you will.
 
He's finished. Don't see why people clamour to have him in the side. No danger is he a creative enough player to be #10 and he just isn't much use as a #9 any more. He hasn't played that role consistently for years.
 
People who say he looks like he doesn't care. I say it's the opposite. He's trying too hard to do everything. . Some things he has never been expected to do, or frankly good enough to do. Play him as striker, take some responsibility off his shoulders. His best form comes in the final third. His work rate and grit comes in handy as an addition but it shouldn't be used as his main purpose.
 
He suffered because of van Persie today. He needed another striker up front, who'd pull the other defender away from him and give him more room to have an effect. Kept the ball well in the first half.
 
PlayerOne said:
Thought he was poor today. I wouldn't be upset to see him go in the summer in the summer tbh, think Fergie was right about him, he saw the decline coming. Maybe I'm being harsh though.
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That's been my thinking for a while…. Fergie was ruthless. If he felt the player didn't have more to offer, he would get rid. However, I think it's Rooney's lack of consistency that's the problem more than anything, and I don't think he's a leader. But what are we going to do? LVG does not have any power at this moment because he hasn't won anything, and top four looking shaky for the time being- imagine the uproar if he left him on the bench.
 
pascell said:
He suffered because of van Persie today. He needed another striker up front, who'd pull the other defender away from him and give him more room to have an effect. Kept the ball well in the first half.
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Always the excuse. He was rubbish by his own accord today. Rvp has nothing to do with him not being able to control the ball or shoot at goal.
 
kouroux said:
I couldn't believe my ears the way he was getting praised by the commentators.
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Yeah that was weird. One appeared to have a raging hard-on for him in particular. I thought he was alright though. Our best attacking player. I would like for him to gett a run of games up front. Hopefully van Gaal doesn't just move him straight back to midfield but I can see it happening.
 
He could be definitely in my top three worst players this season for us... he is almost useless, he only argues with refs can't control the ball isn't suited to any position in our team(having better player for every position he plays).. but I would try him at CAM again where he was decent in this system before we sell him
 
Didn't do much in front of goal, but to be fair he wasn't supplied anything today. No one created a single chance for him. He did well for Herrera's goal.

Average performance.
 
Hernandez - BFA said:
Didn't do much in front of goal, but to be fair he wasn't supplied anything today. No one created a single chance for him. He did well for Herrera's goal.

Average performance.
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Yes, I would love to see Rooney have several goalscoring chances in a match as a striker. I think he would score more than Falcao and RVP combined.
 
Do we have anyone worse at passing the ball over 5 yards? I've never seen a player give it away so much as him. The amount of attacks he fecks up with his shit passing is a joke.
 
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Do we have anyone worse at passing the ball over 5 yards? I've never seen a player give it away so much as him. The amount of attacks he fecks up with his shit passing is a joke.
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Well Blind, Herrera, Di Maria and Falcao have all been guilty of sloppy passes this season, both short and long, but shhh, we're not aloud to mention them.
 
Has he forgotten how to be a deadly forward player? Today he looked clueless in the final 3rd, like he has no bite left.
 
Orton said:
The commentary are embarrassing when discussing him. Make him out to be much better than he is.
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Feed Me said:
Should have let him go.

Fergie knew.
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J-Stander said:
Do we have anyone worse at passing the ball over 5 yards? I've never seen a player give it away so much as him. The amount of attacks he fecks up with his shit passing is a joke.
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Freak said:
The commentators were literally wanking him off. Do they even watch the game when they come up with some of their crap about him?
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Speak said:
The day when both van Persie and Rooney (and obviously Falcao) have moved on will probably be the day this team can really take new shape.
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This really is it. Fergie knew this about Rooney. The problem with Rooney is that he's a Jack of all trades master of none, and with his status being as it is in English football managers are pressured to play him...somewhere.
 
Speak said:
The day when both van Persie and Rooney (and obviously Falcao) have moved on will probably be the day this team can really take new shape.
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Agree about RVP and Falcao but Rooney is more useful than either of them and should be kept.
 
Did anyone else think it was a carbon copy of what Falcao has been doing this season?

Back to goal, dropping deep, holding up and laying off before running away from the ball.
 
Poor Wayne. Peaked early, run his socks off for the club for years, managed to get goals galore. The moment he started to decline, in came Louis van Gaal and tried to convert him into a midfielder. That did not work out, so he is back to playing as a second striker, however due to limited first touch and ball control abilities, he slows down our play in the final third. Would still have him over Robin or Radamel.
 
I have no idea why either him or RVP are getting so much stick for yesterday. Rooney did alright. Made a few good runs that weren't picked out but on the whole had no service to work with. He actually kept it fairly quick yesterday, opposite of slowing it down. Rarely took more than a touch before he trued to pick someone out.
 
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He was okay. Didn't like how the commentators were saying how he never gives away the ball when he did it at least twice in the first half.
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I heard that comment too. Laughable. If he found a teammate with passes twice in the first half hour I would be surprised. He lost the ball almost every time he touched it. He got better later in the first half and in the second until the hoof ball started. Still nothing special though. RVP looked much more likely to score.
 
Walters_19_MuFc said:
Well Blind, Herrera, Di Maria and Falcao have all been guilty of sloppy passes this season, both short and long, but shhh, we're not aloud to mention them.
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The latter two have been taking pelters recently for their poor form. It's not as if Rooney is being exclusively targeted or anything.
 
He hasn't scored from open play since that Newcastle game, where he actually played better in CM than he did in the last two games playing as a striker. It's been so long that I think it's inevitable he will score next match. Doesn't even matter what position he plays.

But then again I also thought he was going to score a brace against Burnley, when in the end it turned out to be Smalling who got the two goals.
 
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