Defensive midfielder. 
10
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- Appearances
- 37
- Goals
- 14
- Assists
- 6
- Yellow cards
- 4
- Red cards
- 1
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Totally warranted in this case. If the CM nonsense continues throughout the whole season he'd be mad not to look elsewhere.
He's being totally wasted here right now - sacrificed for inferior players.
Not only is he in midfield, he's also in his annual crap patch.
I don't believe he's quite this bad in midfield. But add his 'can barely control a high ball or pass first time' mode, and it's painful to watch.
I don't believe he's quite this bad in midfield. But add his 'can barely control a high ball or pass first time' mode, and it's painful to watch.
Working his cock off but just wasted in midfield.
Man marking Danny Ings ffs.
This is hilarious tbf
Funnily enough, I thought he did a good job defensively all said and done. Just looks so awkward though
Rooney to play DM in the next game?
Can't complain about his drive or how hard he tries, but he's just better in front of goal as Striker/AM
He wasn't bad, but it's a waste. A total waste. Fellaini, Mata, Januzaj, Di Maria, Falcao, Van Persie, Wilson. They've all been given a go as a striker or a no.10 in recent weeks. The only one who hasn't is the guy who has been averaging a goal/assist per game in those positions for years.
Did he pass forward once today? The amount of times he tries to spin on the ball and play the hospital pass back to Jonny fecking Evans is unreal. His passing stinks.
Falcao got an assist today. He's almost 0.75 goals/assists per starts y'know. Stats
Too many misplaced passes and not a midfielder's movement. Let's hope he plays upfront and our other strikers get benched
If Rooney had been putting in striking performances as poor as the ones RvP and Falcao have been in recent weeks, you'd be among the first to slate him. Fact is, at this moment i'd back him to do better in the role than both of those two currently are. But he's not even being given the chance, because he's apparently of more use playing just in front of the defence.
Horrible today, he needs to be moved close to the goal.
Better than Falcao maybe, but who wouldn't?
Awful tonight but supposedly had to do a job. But not his fault - he's not refined enough to play there. Back up front with RVP for Preston please, with Mata behind them and Blind, Herrera, Di Maria CM.
He'd be an improvement on Van Persie as well probably, who's hardly been pulling up trees - indeed, RvP's goal return from open play is only marginally better than Rooney's, despite him playing as a striker every week.
Pity that redcafe doesn't allow negative ratings because both him and Falcao would get negative for today
But that's just guess work isn't it? RVP would play better too if he wasn't playing alongside a useless Falcao.
Difference is one's a striker/no.10 playing as a defensive midfielder, and one's a striker playing as a striker.
My point, though, is that Rooney isn't even getting his turn up front. I could understand if RvP and Falcao were setting the world alight, but they're not. Far from it.
I would like Rooney to play as a striker but it still doesn't mean that he makes such silly basic errors that no professional football player should be making
Yeah but for whatever reason, no matter what form he's been in, whenever Rooney goes back into midfield his whole game goes to shit. He's just a completely different player up front and in midfield, happens every time.
Stop pissing about with him in midfield it is an absolute waste. A passenger in the game, Charlie Adam would do the same job.
I feel sorry for Rooney, he has spent virtually his whole career playing up front. Its where his intuition and instinct have been built up of years of working up there and now he is having to work in midfield to the point of having to drop back to DM. I thought he was working hard today but making the sorts of mistakes that we would expect to see RvP or any other striker make if they had to play as a DM. I appreciate his effort but its not fair on him to make him do this job. I doubt he is enjoying this and most players play best when they play with a bit of enjoyment.
He would do better.
Too many people are excusing him. He was awful, a terrible display. Nothing to suggest he would improve our attack either. He looks slow and his touch is rubbish.
Selling him in the summer would not be a bad thing.
Selling him in the summer would not be a bad thing.
Worked is arse off but couldn't pass water tonight.
You really don't think being played as a defensive midfielder is any kind of mitigation at all?
Sacrificing his own game for the good of the team, and getting dogs abuse for his trouble.
Can be checked in my history record that I'm hardly a Rooney fan/defender but the way he's playing at the moment, 90% of the fault goes to LVG's drawer for me.
Especially given that our strikers aren't tearing the teams a new one each game and Falcao looks really bad.
Imagine how pissed he will be if he misses out on the Utd goal scoring record because of this. You could argue a lot of Utd fans wouldn't want him holding it anyway, but missing that record will hurt him bad.
He's a terrible midfielder. He really has no range of passing. The only decent pass he has on him is his the predictable cross field ball to Valencia on the right wing. Apart from that he can't and absolutely refuses to play balls between the lines. It must suck being a number 10 and playing infront of Rooney because you know you will never get the ball.
He did better as a defensive midfielder than a conventional midfielder.
Don't get any ideas Louis..
Don't get any ideas Louis..
At this rate he will end the season in goal.
He wanted to leave last summer, he didn't care about it then, he stayed because we are paying him 250k per week.
There was a moment today in the middle of the second half where Januzaj had the ball and was waiting to make a little 2-3 yard run to get in to space, Rooney just stood there and eventually Januzaj had to try to dribble his way out of trouble. That sortve sums up Rooney in midfield to me, that and he can't pass or take care of the ball when under pressure.
I'm waiting for the game where LvG rotates Rooney at every outfield position.
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