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2014-15 Performances

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5.9 Season Average Rating
Appearances
37
Goals
14
Assists
6
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He can't beat a man, has lost his pace, slows us down and heavy footed - not sure what he really offers as he takes up similar positions on the pitch as RVP and get in each other's way

LVG is doing his best to fit Rooney and RVP into the team but it's not working out at all
 
Him, RvP and Mata are atrocious together. No teamwork or cohesion at all between them.
 
A big confidence player who sadly has none.

Was really expecting him to step up and grab the team by the balls now he is captain but sadly that fiery Rooney seems to be a long way off.

His passing, awareness and touch today was dreadful.
 
He'll start scoring soon but he is one of the most uncreative players in this squad and that's really tough to be.
 
Here we go again...

He actually had some good touches and played some good balls...RVP flubbed far more attempts and was responsible for messing up at least two good buildups we had, but as it is Rooney, he'll get the stick for a missed header and a couple errant touches.

He played pretty well. It isn't his fault we're playing this god-awful formation and it isn't his fault, playing up front, that our midfield is in shambles due to injury and lack of confidence.

If all you can do is roll out the same old, tired knocks about him being named Captain and blah, blah, blah...you tend to look a little bit like you don't really understand why it is that we're struggling at this point.

Hint...it isn't Rooney.
 
Uzz said:
Been saying it for years-he's a liability. Kagawa should be playing up top with RvP like he used to with Dortmund. Rooney should be on the bench (or sold).
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We can't sell him now after the contract we gave him. We're stuck with him phoning it in for another 3/4 years.

To earn that amount of money and show that little desire and effort. He fecking sickens me.
 
When was the last time he actually played well for a whole season? 2010?
 
Not playing to his full potential yet, like every other of our star forwards. People are entitled to expect more, but it's still early days in regards to the season.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
It's demented. Every season the fans need a whipping boy. Combination of a herd mentality and desperate need to find someone to blame for any adversity (the last bit is a very modern phenomenon?).

Rooney is the most talented and productive whipping boy I can remember, which makes the witch hunt all the more ludicrous.
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Not exactly. Fletcher, Smalling, Cleverley, Young, Valencia etc all get stupendous amounts of vitriol, it's not like people only have Rooney in their crosshairs.

The thing about Rooney is: 1) He is captain, despite threatening to leave twice 2) Hes on a massive salary 3) Hes supposed to be, if not our talisman, one of our best players.

Considering this, most fans have rather high expectations to him,unrealistic even, but when he fails to deliver time and time again, fans get frustrated.
Not saying Rooney stood out as the worst today, but he didn't deliver a captains performance either. There are plenty of players in our squad who needs to step up their game, but since Rooney is captain he should lead by example and do it first.
 
I still think he was one of the better players today. Definitely better than Mata and RvP at least for me.
 
Nothing wrong with him. Just part of a team going through a transition, injuries, and playing teams that don't show us any respect anymore.
 
NextSeason said:
0 service.

Typical RedCafe - RvP and Mata clearly visibly worse than Rooney today but all the agenda-driven haters are out in full force.
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Sounds like an agenda post. All three were shit. All three are getting criticised.
 
NextSeason said:
0 service.

Typical RedCafe - RvP and Mata clearly visibly worse than Rooney today but all the agenda-driven haters are out in full force.

Keep sucking on those lemon flavoured toxic wastes. :)
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What?

Rooney was awful literally lost the ball anytime he got it. He was the worst attacker. Did nothing and constantly lost the ball.
 
The defence was god awful, even De Gea made a lot of odd choices (but who can blame him, when he can't trust anyone), RVP fluffed a fair bit, basically the whole team was shite. I can't really single any player as standing out in this performance. Di Maria made some good dribbles and Young beat his man a few times, but the whole team was guilty of far too many long balls to players like Mata. I get it, 75% of you hate Rooney but he's probably not in the top 6 worst players today.
 
He probably created our last best chance of scoring right at the end, when he got the ball about 20 yards from goal, turned and went past a challenge, then played Valencia into space for a good crossing opportunity. Valencia then misplaced the cross, and the chance was gone.

Also got a few decent knock-downs and flicks into the feet of Van Persie, but the moves just didn't quite come off.

Missed a far post header that at his best he might have buried.

Worked quite hard, but ultimately, didn't influence the game that much.
 
NessunDorma said:
He probably created our last best chance of scoring right at the end, when he got the ball about 20 yards from goal, turned and went past a challenge, then played Valencia into space for a good crossing opportunity. Valencia then misplaced the cross, and the chance was gone.

Also got a few decent knock-downs and flicks into the feet of Van Persie, but the moves just didn't quite come off.

Missed a far post header that at his best he might buried.

Worked quite hard, but ultimately, didn't influence the game that much.
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The thing is these were very easy layoffs and he completely misplaced them.
 
Fed up of managers constantly putting their faith in him. Imo the team performs poorly more often than not when he is the main man. He restricts RVP and Mata and offers precious little other than effort himself. I said previously, that moyes biggest mistake was placing his eggs in the Rooney basket, and it cost him his job. i also predicted the same would happen to England, if he was moved back centrally for the second game. He restricts the impacts of the other players around him, and does not compensate enough for what we lose from them.

RVBP's best period for us was when SAF had lost faith in Rooney. Mata and Kagawa both had their best and most dynamic games for the club when rooney wasn't playing. Englands best performance in the WC was with Sterling central and rooney out wide. Is it coincidence? Possibly, but unlikely in my view. LVG has now placed his faith in Rooney, and the first few games have been shocking really. Yes we have injuries and i am not blaming all our problems on Rooney. But i cannot escape from the view that other top players perform poorly when he is in the side.

Rooney does what he does, and given the chance he will score goals. For me it is upto the manager to recognise what is going wrong and put it right. Even with our defensive and midfield problems, we have plenty of attacking talent to call upon. Yet almost all our attacking options are regularly producing nowhere near what they are capable of, and however we try to slice it, the only season in the last 3 or 4 when we have played consistently well enough to get 3 points regularly, was the season SAF dropped Rooney in favour of RVP.

I hope i am proven wrong, and that LVG is the man to get all our stars firing at once. But so far it has been entirely predictable up front yet again, and simply compounds the other deficiencies we already have in midfield and defence. The one area we have no excuses is up front, yet again we find ourselves struggling to create chances and we see top quality players unable to find any cohesion to their movement, passing or ideas either as a unit or individually.
 
mancan92 said:
The thing is these were very easy layoffs and he completely misplaced them.
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I'm not sure it's ever 'easy' when you're under pressure from an aggressive, physical centre-back. As I said, the moves could've come off better, and maybe will on another day.
 
mancan92 said:
He did it aswell but Rooney did it far more times which is why his pass completion was the lowest in the entire team.
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Yeah Rooney was very bad, but generally that midfield is not gelling with either of the defense or the attack. No one had any options to pass to leaving players in the shit. They're not working for eachother, it's pretty sad to see, no one understands their responsibility in this system.
 
anonymous today, but most of the players were.

2 weeks to the next game, so a bit of a chance for us to get some of those injured lot back, and shift a couple of players out.
 
Orton said:
Better at what? Giving the ball away?
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Ya as if he gave the ball away more than the likes of Mata, RvP and our so-called-defence. He wasn't as sharp in the 2nd half as in the first, but he definitely wasn't as bad as people on here moan.
 
thejtrain said:
Ya as if he gave the ball away more than the likes of Mata, RvP and our so-called-defence. He wasn't as sharp in the 2nd half as in the first, but he definitely wasn't as bad as people on here moan.
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Well he did, his passing was only slightly better than de Gea's and he was dispossessed more than any other player too. He was shit, as were our other forwards.
 
thejtrain said:
Ya as if he gave the ball away more than the likes of Mata, RvP and our so-called-defence. He wasn't as sharp in the 2nd half as in the first, but he definitely wasn't as bad as people on here moan.
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63.6% pass completion, excluding his 0% success rate at crosses. Some of them were failed passes in the box but most were in midfield.

Mata had more passes and completed 97% of them, excluding crosses that he completed 0 of. He also had more passes than Rooney.

RVP had 71% completion though he only had the ball half as many times as Rooney.

In terms of percentage and absolute numbers, Rooney gave the ball away comfortably more times than Mata and RVP combined.
 
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