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Up there with one of the worst performances of the season. Again. This belief that he has been amazing needs to stop. He played well vs Newcastle but that has been it really as a midfielder since the Villa game for me.
Looked very fatigued and I would drop him from the next match. Passes were poor all game long. He had the opportunity to make so many final balls and failed so badly so often.
Mata was moving and offering options to Valencia, Rooney was not and left Shaw too often. He also let play go on around him without any drive, again a fitness or fatigue issue perhaps.
Sorry if this ruffles feathers but I'm allowed to voice an unpopular opinion.
Looked very fatigued and I would drop him from the next match. Passes were poor all game long. He had the opportunity to make so many final balls and failed so badly so often.
Mata was moving and offering options to Valencia, Rooney was not and left Shaw too often. He also let play go on around him without any drive, again a fitness or fatigue issue perhaps.
Sorry if this ruffles feathers but I'm allowed to voice an unpopular opinion.
Waste of a player in midfield.
He's more Stevie Me than Paul Scholes when played in midfield.
He's lost some of the strikers instinct IMO.Even in the last 10 he was hovering too deep. He has all the tools to be a top striker again, clearly he needs more game time as the main forward.
His passing has always been inconsistent and his movement off the ball in midfield just isn't up to scratch. Puzzles me how some believe this is his future; particularly when he's so bloody good in front of goal.
Needs to get back up top or to the bench, he isnt a good enough midfielder but he's by far our best striker.
Clearly this is essential because we don't have anybody else to do that job....
I prefer Rooney to RvP. Rooney doesn't get bogged down to the point it's like having 10 men. He will keep trying. Not going to discuss Falcao as there always seems to be something going on with him.
Nope you aren't the only one. I said exactly the same thing in Matchday and got pissed all over by some child called SqueakyWeasel for being a Rooney hater.
Well, yeah, we don't.
Also, the ref didn't pick up on any today, but some of the challenges he makes when defending could easily result in a goal. And he does this looping back header into no man's land (between our back 3 and DdG) that puts us under pressure. Doesn't play sensibly, imo.
He isn't a quarter of the midfielder Gerrard was.
That tackle in the first half on Davis was easily a yellow card, right outside the box too. Bit of a naughty one.
He looked angry and confused today, just play him up top for fecks sake. I guess now RvP is injured he might actually get the chance.
It like some people in here can't wait for Rooney to have a bad performance. That said, he certainly wasn't our worst performer today.
Should play every fecking game as striker. Just wasting him in CM. Just like Di Maria btw. 2 of our best players, both being wasted.
He's confused as to why he wanted to leave for playing out of position but now he's captain, and on a big fat salary he's happy to play anywhere, until things stop going his way on the pitch.
Awful today.. Its shame that he is undroppable.
Why is he being played as a fucking midfielder?
Its alright lads, im taking him out of my fantasy team now so he will return back to to his normal self next week.
It's interesting that LvG used him in midfield once again, when he had Fellaini, Herrera available and at the same time played Di Maria as a striker. He's been decent/good in midfield but I thought it's a temporary solution. Very poor today anyway, he seems allergic to short passing.
He's pretty much same as Gerrard when played in the midfield IMO. People kep praising him but we actually keep playing as shit boring and predictable football.
Attacking wise he can do things that are impressive but actually means nothing for the team. For example, his crossfield passes to Valencia, first of all they are inconsistent, in one game they are Scholesy esque but in next game he keeps failing finding his target, but yet he keeps trying them. Those passes actually make our game predictable, slow our play, and Valencia rarely does anything from them apart from winning the corner.
Defensively, he runs a lot but in reality most of our midfielders runs less but are better defensively than him. Considering how much he covers you would think his defensive numbers are high, but it's actually quite clear even from watching the game that he doesn't intercept much balls nor wins any more duels than some other players. To cover that with numbers, he intercepts 0.9 balls per game, and he is in 14th position by interceptions in our team(Blind, Carrick, Herrera, Fellaini - our all midfielders are all ahead of him, Fletcher is just one spot behind him). Mata is on 0.5. Tackles wise, he is in 15th position with 1.1 tackle per game. Again, all our midfielders are ahead of him, only Mata from midfielders is behind him, but not by much, he makes 0.9 tackles per game. Compare that with people calling Mata defensive liability and praising Rooney like he is Roy Keane in disguise defensively.
I don't like this stats game too much, but it's nice to see that it backs my opinion of him a s a midfielder and his "extraordinary" defensive game everyone is talking about.
Of course, there are good things with playing him in midfield like his goalscoring abilities, but I think there are too much negatives in this case.
Btw I am not criticseing Rooney, it's not he who plays himself in midfield.
Attacking wise he can do things that are impressive but actually means nothing for the team. For example, his crossfield passes to Valencia, first of all they are inconsistent, in one game they are Scholesy esque but in next game he keeps failing finding his target, but yet he keeps trying them. Those passes actually make our game predictable, slow our play, and Valencia rarely does anything from them apart from winning the corner.
Defensively, he runs a lot but in reality most of our midfielders runs less but are better defensively than him. Considering how much he covers you would think his defensive numbers are high, but it's actually quite clear even from watching the game that he doesn't intercept much balls nor wins any more duels than some other players. To cover that with numbers, he intercepts 0.9 balls per game, and he is in 14th position by interceptions in our team(Blind, Carrick, Herrera, Fellaini - our all midfielders are all ahead of him, Fletcher is just one spot behind him). Mata is on 0.5. Tackles wise, he is in 15th position with 1.1 tackle per game. Again, all our midfielders are ahead of him, only Mata from midfielders is behind him, but not by much, he makes 0.9 tackles per game. Compare that with people calling Mata defensive liability and praising Rooney like he is Roy Keane in disguise defensively.
I don't like this stats game too much, but it's nice to see that it backs my opinion of him a s a midfielder and his "extraordinary" defensive game everyone is talking about.
Of course, there are good things with playing him in midfield like his goalscoring abilities, but I think there are too much negatives in this case.
Btw I am not criticseing Rooney, it's not he who plays himself in midfield.
Wasted in midfield and then played up front with Fellaini with our team just hoofing the ball. LVG said Rooney was very happy when playing CM against Newcastle but you can tell he's far from happy playing the position with his post match interview.
RVP doesn't play against Yeovil, we play Wilson and Falcao up front. Falcao doesn't play today, we play RVP and a midfielder up front instead of Rooney. It takes Falcao not playing and an injury to RVP for LVG to play Rooney up front which is quite worrying. Don't see the logic in having your joint highest scorer playing centre mid, especially when he hasn't been good there for a fair amount of games in a row now as well as the alternatives up front not being great.
RVP doesn't play against Yeovil, we play Wilson and Falcao up front. Falcao doesn't play today, we play RVP and a midfielder up front instead of Rooney. It takes Falcao not playing and an injury to RVP for LVG to play Rooney up front which is quite worrying. Don't see the logic in having your joint highest scorer playing centre mid, especially when he hasn't been good there for a fair amount of games in a row now as well as the alternatives up front not being great.
Whether it be Falcao, RVP and now Rooney, whichever striker hasn't been given a chance up top recently suddenly becomes our best striker. He was no better than RVP when he moved up top. The grass is always greener and all that...
Nah, he's quite clearly a better striker than those two for me, didnt know why he was shifted to midfield, as he began the season quite well.
LVG decided that he didn't like Rooney as a striker and that he felt RVP and Falcao could do the job better, despite being Rooney being our best striker form wise at the time. Although that wasn't saying a lot.
Cannot believe some people mention him and Scholes in the same breath.
edit, exibit a:
Words fail me.
Not a midfielder. This shoehorning of players into positions that they are not best at for the sake of playing them has to stop.
he had a few good games in midfield, but it's probably time to push him further up now, especially if VP is out.
As someone said Wayne looks tired, or is it that LvG said they will be tired after all these games over Christmas. The fact he is playing in the supposed powerhouse of a team, the midfield, when he isn't a midfielder. He needs to be up front. Unfortunately Wayne might also be in the middle of his slumps. You can almost set your watch to them.
Might be an unpopular opinion, but he should either be starting as a striker or not starting at all. He doesn't work as a midfielder.
Like everyone else has said, he is not a CM. Maybe with RvP out he will be moved back up forward.
He is not a midfielder and he is notoriously weak in the second half of the season. I think he needs a break for a few weeks.
I'd probably give him a break too. But "My captain shall always play." - LvG.
The Rooney project is failing. Rooney is not consistent enough to play every game like sneijder, some games he can do it all but there comes a period where nothing goes right for him. I hope LvG has realised that.
Play him as a 10 behind the striker or 9, that is where he has earned his bread and butter for most of his career.
Play him as a 10 behind the striker or 9, that is where he has earned his bread and butter for most of his career.
Play him as a striker or dont play him at all. He doesn't take on players with his dribbles and bursting runs anymore. All he does during the game is looking to put cross field passes to the wingbacks. The Moyes syndrome is still in him.
In fact, I would say this is a very popular opinion as far as I can remember. Rooney should be an all and out striker or nothing at all.
That quote! You'd swear some people never saw Scholes play. In his prime, he had everything a midfielder needed. He could do everything that Carrick, Blind, Herrera and Rooney does as midfielder. Scholeas could receive a ball and play it first time on the turn to our strikers, peel off and receive the ball again. He could switch play in an efficient manner, something Rooney has proven time and time again he can't do on a consistent basis. Scholes could also play little one twos, freeing his team mates up. Heck, he even got forward once or twice to score goals. He could do all this, with the added bonus of knowing when exactly to do which one of them.
Basically, the more I see Rooney in midfield, the more I miss Paul Scholes. I mentioned "in his prime" in the last paragraph, but a 36 year old Scholes is a better midfielder than Rooney is currently. Every United manager deserves a Paul Scholes, which is too bad for Moyes and Van Gaal.
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