That's a hard task right?
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Pass for Di Maria's Goal, the one before Faulco hit the bar, the one where Van Persie was slightly offside are these not good balls? or have you just picked him out because you dislike him. He played key balls today for our chances and was involved in the goals. The attack was not the problem, the defence and ref cost us nothing else so stop your Rooney hate.
He looked fairly good today. Again, not at his very best, but was one of our better players.
So the pass behind Di Maria that he had to turn into a good one, the one where he took too long to pass to Van Persie... How about the 2 passes to Leicester players just outside his own box?
He is always one of the guys in our box when we get countered. Always!!
If 2/3 other guys did that we would concede less.
If 2/3 other guys did that we would concede less.
What I liked about his performance was that he was ahead of everyone. Literally. He was playing passes to players 10 minutes before they got into that position.
It was great seeing him so vocal but who will tell him when he's done bad, mainly the set pieces today. Di Maria's were a lot better today. He did okay in the role behind the front two today. Linked up nicely with Di Maria, Falcao and Herrera. Plus adds that physicality that Mata doesn't.
He should be playing in the front two. Despite the fact Rooney runs around a lot there isn't much discipline to his positioning. Yes, he gets back but he doesn't occupy the right spaces. The edge of our box was a Leicester shooting gallery. Rooney is not the right player to be heading up the diamond. It exposes his flaws as a player and does not bring out his greatest strengths.
His little meltdown after the third goal was pathetic. Taking no responsibility for his role in the goal at all. It was his wayward pass which set them up for the chance in the first place. Constantly slowed us down and offered nothing as an outlet. LVG will surely see it and act, just depends on if he sees it soon enough...
You're an idiot if you can't accept these were perfectly good passes and you clearly have an issue with one of our player which is quite frankly embarrassing. Player mis-place passes they all do and you single out Rooney.
No, they weren't good balls, they just had a quality player on the end of them. He underhit the pass for Di Maria, which arrived behind hence the lob. The pass to Falcao was equally poor, in that he lofts it into him at chest height when the ball along the ground was on. In both cases, the receiving player had to do more work with the pass.
He actually over-hit or under-hit every important pass he played today.
Thought he was decent.
Our best player today for me. Very creative, always involved and was the only c unt chasing back for their fourth goal
I actually enjoyed him bollocking everyone from the defenders to the referee. Passion that has been missing in his hand for a long while. He was decent as well.
Kinda pointless when he's also playing like an erratic lunatic though.
He was alright up until that penalty, but was complete garbage afterwards.
Exactly. Shouting at folk means bugger all when you can't clear a ball properly.
Did okay today, he put more effort in then a few other passengers today. I've managed to lower my expectations of Rooney to avoid unfairly criticising him and this seems to be working.
Was good when facing goal, dreadful when his back was towards goal(Which is what a number 10 will do a lot).
Decent/good until their penalty. Then his head went. Him shouting at our players when we conceded the third was hilarious, mostly cos he conceded the possession with his terrible clearance.
We dropped one of the few world class number 10s to shoehorn this shit footballer in. Then we bring said number 10 on as a left winger.
Played well, up until the penalty, when he like everyone else, he completely lost his head.
And you have extremely low standards if you think a pass behind a player that they do well to improvise with is a good pass.
Had a decent enough individual game but as a captain didn't carry out his duty.
Rooney did pretty well today in the 10 role.
If only we were half as creative in that second half as some of the spazzers in here trying to blame this on Rooney, we'd be golden.
Surprised so many people say he was good, thought he was shit. The ones who said he was "creative and linking up well" are surely having a laugh. Gotta wonder what game were some watching....
What was good about his performance was that he was tracking back a lot and gave a bollocking to the other players when it was required.
What was good about his performance was that he was tracking back a lot and gave a bollocking to the other players when it was required.
What are you smoking? Shit footballer? Go join RAWK ffs.
What a load of shite.
Did quite well up until the penalty. I don't see a leader there, though.
I didn't think he was bad today at all. If you're being picky a great leader would have kept their head together better and channelled their anger at the injustice towards putting an even better effort in on the pitch and galvanising their team mates. But that kind of leader is extremely rare and we already knew that Rooney wasn't one. It's hard to blame him for going ballistic when I was absolutely fuming myself.
He isn't a great number 10 by any means but he wasn't the problem today. He looks quite sharp physically wise. Playing with two centre forwards in front of him was a problem though.
Rooney just can't win, can he? 
Yeah, if we're going to play him in the number 10 role, then he's generally best when he's got one striker in front of him to link up with. Otherwise, there's a danger he just becomes a midfielder who's been pushed up a little bit.
Played a poor-ish game today, but I'm most concerned with his behavior after the pen. It's like he completely forgot we're still leading and there's a game left to play. Get him anger management or something. Every ball he touched since after the penalty was hoofed to no one in a fit of rage. You cannot, cannot do that, regardless of how badly the ref did you over. Especially if you're the bloody captain.
He was very good until our meltdown. Misplaced criticism, as usual with Rooney.
Rooney has to score a hattrick before he can be credited on here whereas RvP can do next to nothing and still be classed as one of our better performers.
When you talk about leaders on the pitch Rooney is not 1, shouting at players does feck all, inspiring players on the pitch is what a leader does. For example as a senior player in the team Rooney is a poor leader and example on the pitch. There was only 1 leader on the pitch today and it was Esteban Cambiasso, that is what a leader does. I hope that we get Strootman in January and give him the captains armband straight away - he has the leadership qualites we need.
I wouldn't say 'very good'. Had some good moments, but bad ones too. But he certainly wasn't "awful", as alleged above.
He played well in a fcuking weird game.
I agree, there were a lot of positives in a somewhat mixed performance.
Are you curious at all to see how we would set up and function without him? I would love to see how that would work.
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