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2014-15 Performances

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5.9 Season Average Rating
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37
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14
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Feck me, everytime there is an obvious outlet for a forward pass, he passes it back to defence. He is actually a negative midfielder.
 
He's not a midfielder!! Ffs, we have actual midfielders on the bench. Completely wasting Rooney in this role.
 
Absolutely fecking awful. Get a proper midfielder on and sort this shit out.
 
He's got to be dropped, he's supposed to be the creative midfielder and he creates absolutely nothing.
 
ivaldo said:
He's got to be dropped, he's supposed to be the creative midfielder and he creates absolutely nothing.
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LVG won't drop his captain, I don't think he rates him as a striker so I guess we will be seeing a lot of him as a midfielder.
 
Along with the other three in midfield he was very poor in possession.

It's not that I want him dropped, it's that I'd rather see an actual midfielder in that position.
 
He's had a few underpar performances of late, and i've said as much. I didn't think this was one of them. Looked like one of our only players determined to get forward. Meanwhile, the 'better no.9s' continued to miss good chances, despite being given the privilege of playing in their best positions.
 
Average midfielder, don't play him there. We lack pace and power up front, makes sense to have him there, where he is also much better.
 
Drop him full stop. He's well out of form and needs a massive kick up the arse.
 
NessunDorma said:
He's had a few underpar performances of late, and i've said as much. I didn't think this was one of them. Looked like one of our only players determined to get forward. Meanwhile, the 'better no.9s' continued to miss good chances, despite being given the privilege of playing in their best positions.
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what.

Impacted the game at the zero to negative level today.
 
When have we played well when he's played in midfield this season? It's getting beyond ridiculous now, to take a very very good striker and play him out of position for what reason? Our strikers aren't playing great and we have much better midfielders on the bench. He wasn't the worst playing on the pitch today but he has been in the previous games and one of the main reasons our play has been so poor. If Van Gaal wants to play all three of our star strikers at the same time then move him back to the top of the diamond like before where he was playing well and scoring. At least that way we can have actual midfielders behind our foward line.
 
LeftyBlaster said:
what.

Impacted the game at the zero to negative level today.
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More key passes than any other of our players, and the most of any player on the pitch. Joint most successful dribbles along with Di Maria. Never lost the ball once through an unsure touch (as compared to 5 times for Di Maria, and 3 times for Falco).

Wasn't excellent by any stretch, but it was an improvement over recent weeks - and it's hardly his fault if the people playing in the position he should be/would like to be keep missing chances.
 
I actually thought he was our best player on the field, bar De Gea. He was still shit, but the best of the worst.
 
NessunDorma said:
More key passes than any other of our players, and the most of any player on the pitch. Joint most successful dribbles along with Di Maria. Never lost the ball once through an unsure touch (as compared to 5 times for Di Maria, and 3 times for Falco).

Wasn't excellent by any stretch, but it was an improvement over recent weeks - and it's hardly his fault if the people playing in the position he should be/would like be keep missing chances.
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Key passes? Tear your eyes away from stats and actually look at how we performed. Di Maria was shiteous for all his "successful dribbles" stat. If this is your idea of an improvement over recent weeks, I have no words. Also, gave the ball away a few times in dangerous areas (yet again)
 
His key passes are shite over hit passes that force our players out wide.
 
When RvP got his form back and Falcao looked like he might be regaining some form i thought playing Rooney in midfield was perfect. Now given the other twos form it has to be the stupidest decision LvG keeps making (yes ahead of 352)
 
Am I the only one that thought he was one of our better players?

Okay we didn't have many stand out performers but Wayne showed drive and took the ball under pressure when other players in the middle went hiding.
 
LeftyBlaster said:
Key passes? Tear your eyes away from stats and actually look at how we performed. Di Maria was shiteous for all his "successful dribbles" stat. If this is your idea of an improvement over recent weeks, I have no words. Also, gave the ball away a few times in dangerous areas (yet again)
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I watched the game, and the stats just quantify what I saw. He looked like our most threatening player for long spells of the match, although that's not saying much given the overall team performance.
 
People saying he's not a midfielder, and I agree, but he was far from our worst player today. Januzaj was pretty anonymous, Di Maria was awful and Blind got run ragged, due to very little protection.

It's easy to just come into this thread and say Rooney's not a midfielder, but I can guarantee you our problems lie much deeper than Rooney playing there, at this moment in time.
 
Walters_19_MuFc said:
People saying he's not a midfielder, and I agree, but he was far from our worst player today. Januzaj was pretty anonymous, Di Maria was awful and Blind got run ragged, due to very little protection.

It's easy to just come into this thread and say Rooney's not a midfielder, but I can guarantee you our problems lie much deeper than Rooney playing there, at this moment in time.
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Well it Is a problem since he sees more of the ball than any other player and continues to pick easy passes out wide and ignore strikers runs. He's predictable and slow on the ball and other teams find him easy to play against. Don't know if he would even be that good up front right now. Been crap since newcastle.
 
I'm not going to blame him for the performances when he's way out of position, this isn't even an AM or CM role, it's RM, Becks old role.
 
Was absolutely fuming on the pitch. Can't blame him. You can tell he really wanted to win the match but the formation/tactics and personnel mix was completely wrong.

Just can tell how frustrated he is becoming by playing in a midfield position whilst LVG doesn't have the balls to drop RVP or Falcao. It should be Wayne upfront on his own or with ONE of the other strikers as his partner. Plop ADM on the wing and put Herrera in midfield then watch us score goals for fun.
 
It's a bit maddening at this point.

He's not a midfielder. Herrera? Fellaini? They're midfielders. Feck... Juan Mata... JUAN SODDING MATA is more of a midfielder then him.

What makes it worse is that are two starting strikers are crap as it is. Rooney would be an instant improvement up there.
 
DevilRed said:
Was absolutely fuming on the pitch. Can't blame him. You can tell he really wanted to win the match but the formation/tactics and personnel mix was completely wrong.

Just can tell how frustrated he is becoming by playing in a midfield position whilst LVG doesn't have the balls to drop RVP or Falcao. It should be Wayne upfront on his own or with ONE of the other strikers as his partner. Plop ADM on the wing and put Herrera in midfield then watch us score goals for fun.
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Shouldn't spout bollocks about being happy to play anywhere If that's the case. Why should he be guaranteed to start?
 
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