Why is his pace so inconsistent? He showed he still has it with that burst to create a chance but there was another incident where he was chasing Toure and he looked lightning slow.
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Toure is pretty quick when he gets going, but I think Rooney was cramping up a bit at that point too so that wouldn't have helped.
This lad knows more than the lot of you!
Annoys the feck out of me.
And people wonder why we have no creativity through the middle.Mata is a better no 10
The burst from the middle was awesome. He has the ability, don't know why he doesn't do it more often.
He was amazing in the second half. He was everywhere and showed he is a better option than Mata.
RVP is the one that should make way when Falcao gets back. But it will be interesting to see what happens.
RVP is the one that should make way when Falcao gets back. But it will be interesting to see what happens.
That run through the middle was bloody brilliant, vintage Rooney stuff. Only regret is he could have taken the shot on his left and caught Hart out at his near post. Got my butt off the chair with that.
Looks in wonderful shape.
Dont understand why he didn't just have a crack at goal, i am sure he will regret that.
Just lacks that killer edge that the worlds best strikers have, and always seems to wanna put it on his right foot!
Just lacks that killer edge that the worlds best strikers have, and always seems to wanna put it on his right foot!
I used to think that but he hasn't proved it at all this season. Did nothing while Rooney was suspended.
Fantastic 2nd half from him. That's the Rooney I want to see.
Best player for us, really good in midfield. First 25 mins his little flicks round the corners with Fellaini worked really well, dominated our midfield worked well alongside Fellaini and Blind, great to have him back.
Thought LVG made a mistake with putting him on the same side as Shaw. Would have thought he would have been better defensively than Di Maria so I would have played him on the right and Di Maria on the left. As Shaw should be a better LB than Valencia is RB was my thinking. And potentially that caught us out with the goal. Valencia too narrow and Di Maria didnt quite fill the gap (Although great pass from Yaya.)
Thought LVG made a mistake with putting him on the same side as Shaw. Would have thought he would have been better defensively than Di Maria so I would have played him on the right and Di Maria on the left. As Shaw should be a better LB than Valencia is RB was my thinking. And potentially that caught us out with the goal. Valencia too narrow and Di Maria didnt quite fill the gap (Although great pass from Yaya.)
Shoot Dammit!
Rooney up top please! Herrera in midfield thanks.
This is what I am leaning towards too. Even though Wayne doesn't prefer to play there it seems, he would give us more pace and work rate than RvP.
This would improve us massively plus I really like to see Falcao given a run once he's finally fit
But, but, but, where will Van Persie play?
Lets stick Rooney in midfield, Carrick and Herrera can stay on the bench, shove Di Maria out on the wing and then we have a place for RvP AND Rooney on the pitch together at all times!
It's like a badly played game of Tetris
Had he dribbled his way to goal yesterday...
Rooney was excellent yesterday, he also seems to play well vs City and his run from midfield was one of the highlights of the match. The problem he has in when he's given too much time, he's much better when the first decisions made for him, like the run he had was started because the ball broke his way in a challenge and from there it was just instinct, that's how he needs to play. I think when he's given too much time he takes three, four, five touches and just can't make his mind up what to do and ends up messing up a 5 yard pass inside. I think out of all our players LVG will really push Rooney on because he will challenge him to be better, to improve.
I think the Captaincy changed him a bit. I get a feeling that he is trying to engineer 'something for the team' rather than finish a clinical goal upfront. Laudable qualities, but the fact remains that he should not get into a situation where he lets his strike rate decline.
Man, you would think he was world class yesterday reading some of the comments.
In those 15 minutes or so when we dominated the midfield, he was the worst midfielder out of three giving away the possession quite easily with simple passes resulting in City counterattacking and creating few good chances in first half. Clichy end up the game as player with highest number of interceptions thanks to Rooney's pointless diagonal passes to the right wing resulting in City counterattacking every single time from it. He end up the game as our fourth worst passer accuracy wise, only di Maria, Januzaj and de Gea had the worst passing accuracy and I think he made the most wrong passes in total in our team which is quite shit for a midfielder, but for some reason he was "our best player yesterday", even though de Gea, Shaw were easily better, and Fellaini,Blind and even Valencia were probably at least on par with him. But hey, he yelled at some of our players showing his desire and energy when they made a wrong pass, that's what matters the most!
In those 15 minutes or so when we dominated the midfield, he was the worst midfielder out of three giving away the possession quite easily with simple passes resulting in City counterattacking and creating few good chances in first half. Clichy end up the game as player with highest number of interceptions thanks to Rooney's pointless diagonal passes to the right wing resulting in City counterattacking every single time from it. He end up the game as our fourth worst passer accuracy wise, only di Maria, Januzaj and de Gea had the worst passing accuracy and I think he made the most wrong passes in total in our team which is quite shit for a midfielder, but for some reason he was "our best player yesterday", even though de Gea, Shaw were easily better, and Fellaini,Blind and even Valencia were probably at least on par with him. But hey, he yelled at some of our players showing his desire and energy when they made a wrong pass, that's what matters the most!
I thought Sparky detests Rooney but ^^ this guy is something else.
Many have said Rooney was our best attacker. Last time I checked, Blind, Shaw, DDG, Fellaini and a Valencia at RB (or anywhere) are not attackers.
I liked his performance, real captain-like performance. He was all over the place trying to make things happen. Tried to involve Di Maria a lot. Good to see him back to his best.
Rooney played well against City but he certainly wasn't excellent, too many poor crossfield balls and caught in possession a few times.
Even that great run through the middle he should have got a shot away, no need to try and drag the ball back on to his right foot.
Even that great run through the middle he should have got a shot away, no need to try and drag the ball back on to his right foot.
Many have also said he was our best player in general, and that he was fantastic, excellent, etc. which clearly wasn't the case. I agree that he was our best attacker though, even though he wasn't really an attacker yesterday.
Completely agree with this. People have become desensitised to his mediocrity.
He was good in patches, especially late on. To start the game though he was rusty and gave the ball away a few times, but I can forgive him because it was his first game back.
His very first United goal.
He did a really neat move to free himself from Kolarov and Toure was it? in the second half.
It wasn't Kolarov, he was injured in the warm up.
Agree, always said Mata was better but he's been invisable in most games he's played this season and was very disapointing when Rooney was out.
Mata probably feels his time is nearly up at United...probably off this January.
I think so too, which is sad because I like the guy but he's surplus at the moment, hopefully we can use him as bait for a good CD.
I still think Rooney is being misused here. Giving him a free roaming role kind of helps a bit on other areas, but I think we are still missing his brilliance up the field. Between injuries and stupidity, defence is anyways fecked up a bit right now and Rooney is not going to shore it up fully.
Instruct him to stay disciplined in the middle with a bulk of his role upfront and we can try and outscore the opponents. So you can score 2, with AdM, Rooney and Falcao/RvP we certainly can score more. A attacking 3-3 draw is still better than a scrappy 1-1 draw.
Instruct him to stay disciplined in the middle with a bulk of his role upfront and we can try and outscore the opponents. So you can score 2, with AdM, Rooney and Falcao/RvP we certainly can score more. A attacking 3-3 draw is still better than a scrappy 1-1 draw.
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