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Yeah ok...
Here's a real treat for Wayne fans. And for the doubters, a reminder of why some of us rate him so highly:
His 50 best goals, spanning 12 years, but excluding some of his recent corkers (because the video was made before they were scored).
What I love about it is the mix of eras, showing he was scoring great goals then, and he is still scoring great goals now.
His 50 best goals, spanning 12 years, but excluding some of his recent corkers (because the video was made before they were scored).
What I love about it is the mix of eras, showing he was scoring great goals then, and he is still scoring great goals now.
Aston Villa 1:1 Man Utd
Playing United potential record goalscorer in central midfield as a starter continues to bother me. Play him as a 10 or as a striker or do not play him at all.
He's been our best player so far alongside RVP.
Yeah, weird timing for that post, he's been great.
He is a much bigger goal threat playing near the goal than he is playing away from it. Their are other attributes needed to be a good midfielder than playing Hollywood longball. Personally, I would not have shoehorned mata, Falcao, Van Persie and Rooney in the same team unless, we had an out and out defensive midfielder in the team, or during the last few minutes of the game when we need a goal.
If I had my way he'd always play as a #10 but he's doing very well today as a CM.
He is doing well, but our team lacks cohesion and Rooney playing alongside Fletcher is one of the problematic areas. Personally, I would like to see Rooney move further up and Di maria play in that box to box role.
Too good to be wasted so deep.
Some nice passes but clearly given instruction to sit and not get forwards. Wasted if you ask me.
Should be playing in Mata's position and have Carrick shift back into midfield.
Should be playing in Mata's position and have Carrick shift back into midfield.
Think he really is being wasted playing deep.
I'd move him up to number 10 and put Di Maria in behind, if he is fit.
I'd move him up to number 10 and put Di Maria in behind, if he is fit.
Did good so far, I like him in midfield. Don't think it would have made any difference if he played upfront with teh service our strikers got so far.
I wonder if that's true. There was space. ACRES of space behind the forwards begging to be exploited and he just stood wherever he was and refused to attack it. If it was under instruction not to attack, it's profoundly odd because it runs contrary to LVG's philosophy of passing and moving. If it wasn't. he had a poor game in terms of contributing to build up play.
Easy 5-6/10 today. Didn't do much wrong but didn't do anything bright either.
He was okay. Passing was fine, if at times quite predictable, but he still managed to create two of the best chances we had and more specifically, RvP had. We lose his goal threat from midfield though.
Lovely reverse ball through the middle to put RVP clean through on the keeper, I never get this he only hits it wide, Mata plays through the middle, Mata hits it wide as much as Rooney and Rooney does play through the middle too.
Some of his long balls to switch play are lovely. Nevertheless I don't like him in this deep midfield role. He has much more of an impact on the game than Mata in the #10 role.
He was fantastic today. Tracked back, lovely passes, through balls. Only thing that was missing was a goal.
He does well wherever he plays he was good today.
I thought he was great, but it takes something out of us by him not being more advanced.
Good game today but feck sake it does my head in that we have to play him so deep when we so desperately need him up front. Can't we clone him?
93% pass success rate, 3 key passes and 15 out of 16 long passes completed. I've seen him have worse games in midfield.
Another very good performance in midfield today. Great ball for RVP chance too.
Absolutely wasted playing so deep.
He picked the easy option almost all the time. numerous balls to the wings as usual.
I thought he was fine, it was the fact that only Falcao made any runs that doubled the difficulty of his job, too many players square of him too often.
Did you miss the 2 lovely passes to RVP?
I swear people see what they want to see with Rooney.
Did good in midfield but really should be afforded Mata's role.
Understandably we didn't have too many central midfielders today. Nonetheless, he really should be either played upfront or in a position where he can be a goal threat. Its wasting him to play in midfield unless its for emergency purposes.
Understandably we didn't have too many central midfielders today. Nonetheless, he really should be either played upfront or in a position where he can be a goal threat. Its wasting him to play in midfield unless its for emergency purposes.
Fantastic? And you say I have an agenda.
He was fine, best player in the first half altough nothing special, but pretty average in the second half, almost invisible when we had to attack the most. He put two good balls for van Persie, did nothing wrong and that's about it. He should be playing more forward.
Fantastic? And you say I have an agenda.
He was fine, best player in the first half altough nothing special, but pretty average in the second half, almost invisible when we had to attack the most. He put two good balls for van Persie, did nothing wrong and that's about it. He should be playing more forward.
Just about sums it up. Did nothing to solve our problems with his utter lack of movement or willingness to attack the stacks of space in front of him. Not the brightest bulb in the squad in terms of offensive playmaking, but hey Juan's off playing Where's Wally yet again.
He was good today. Anyone who slates him are just bitter. He produced a few killer passes, and moved possession well. Should really have bagged himself an assist or two today.
Think he plays it too safe when he's in center midfield. Was decent and had good stats, but he should have tried to run with the ball a bit more often and force the issue a bit more. Great pass to RVP for that chance when he should have scored, but I didn't think he was great or anything. Decent, but didn't take enough risks.
Was nothing special today. But hey ho...
When your upfront, out wide or in the 10 role you can take risks by running at people or creative passing, its harder to do and alot more risky for the team doing it from the holding role he had today. Your judging him as Rooney the 10 when he is playing alot deeper so he will play alot of safer passes because thats what the role needs. I mean the two passes for RVP today you'd struggle to see any defensive midfiler play that many creative passes in a full season, so this has to be considered when judging the performance.
He wasn't the defensive midfielder though, he had first Fletcher and then Carrick next to him. I'm not judging him as a 10, the reality is he played well but could have taken more risks and try to quicken the passing plenty of times more then he did. Nobody in our team was increasing the speed of our passing and that's why Villa defended so easily.
Of course he is. He's one of the best strikers in the world, yet Manchester United have to be Manchester United and play their very talented players out of position. Rooney is not and never will be a central midfielder. We can try it, but he'll be relegated to a terrible imitation of Paul Scholes, while nowhere near as good on possession.
Or, we can do the right thing, play him up top, and get a guaranteed 25+ goals a season. But like I say, we don't use common sense at this club.
In midfield he misses too many runs by our strikers, or if he sees them he decides against attempting the required passes, either way he's not a playmaker who wins you trophies.
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