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2015-16 Performances

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5.6 Season Average Rating
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41
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15
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devilish said:
Martial as a striker would have won us the game
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This. Absolutely this - they were there for the taking and we stuck the kid on the left away from where he's leathal - absolute madness from our coaching team.
 
Some are going OTT with the Rooney criticism. He's under the microscope and every mistake is picked on - sadly he isn't offering much attacking threat at the moment and basic errors keep giving his critics ammo. He's not finished... yet; although imagine how good we'd be with an Aguero, Suarez or even Martial up front. I think there is extra frustration because LVG won't drop him and people are directing this at Rooney, rather than LVG.
 
He regularly gets dominated by Kompany...Pretty obvious he would be even more so today considering he's not that good anymore. Should have been subbed off for Memphis and put Martial up top, they couldn't deal with him.
 
Seriously, are people trying to defend the performances he's regularly putting in for us?

As our highest paid player and captain he shouldn't be praised for "working hard" in the fecking derby - that's the absolute, shameless minimum you'd expect of anyone, let alone what's supposed to be our leader.

He's done as a top player. Contributed nothing to our attacks and actually is a hindrance with his unwillingness to run in behind/attack crosses in the box.
 
As a striker, who's supposed to win you games, he was a shambles again. Overall, he had moments of decent play.
 
Lawman said:
I'm a Rooney fan but this season enough is enough he needs dropped. Regret the sale of Welbeck as he'd be perfect replacement that was already here. The pace power and movement of him and Martial would have served us well. I don't think Rooney is the only one I think Mata doesn't contribute enough either.
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Our standards have dropped if someone like Welbeck is viewed as being an ideal replacement. He's got pace and power, but he'd be nowhere near good enough for our frontline.
 
I'm starting to think it was written in to his new contract that he must play in every game.
 
I supported him during half time, and I stand by that. Second half, he looked a lot more tired and less effective than ever up front but he still put in a shift in defence for us.

I'm annoyed he didn't get subbed because he looks fecking shattered. I think people go over board with the hate/criticism here but it does annoy me that LVG refuses to sub him.
 
Against Everton at least he was making runs in behind. Against City he sometimes just stood offside for a good 7 seconds before realizing that he was the target man.
 
I thought he had decent first half and didn't deserve much criticism but he was absolutely terrible in the second. He can't hold a defender on his back to save his life, it's like he has come from the softest league in the world straight into premierleague, you would think he never played at this level.

ivaldo said:
Here's a fun fact, it's been 79 matches since Rooney last successfully held up the ball under pressure from a defender, his longest drought of his career.
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Yeah, he is really terrible at keeping the ball under pressure. I think even Hernandez could do better than him in that department, it's embarassing really.
 
really needs to be dropped or injured, think he could do with some time out and the team needs it even more.
 
Hernandez - BFA said:
I supported him during half time, and I stand by that. Second half, he looked a lot more tired and less effective than ever up front but he still put in a shift in defence for us.

I'm annoyed he didn't get subbed because he looks fecking shattered. I think people go over board with the hate/criticism here but it does annoy me that LVG refuses to sub him.
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He made some very good contributions defensively, granted, but it doesn't excuse the fact that his contribution in the position he plays in, and should be having an impact in, was woeful.
 
Cheesy said:
Our standards have dropped if someone like Welbeck is viewed as being an ideal replacement. He's got pace and power, but he'd be nowhere near good enough for our frontline.
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He'd be a big upgrade on the Rooney that we are seeing just now Cheesy. Not sure why you don't think that?
 
If he really must play then play him wide. I feel angry and confused everytime I see him break up a United attack.
 
He needs to be dropped. It is time for LvG to stop being blind.
 
Lawman said:
He'd be a big upgrade on the Rooney that we are seeing just now Cheesy. Not sure why you don't think that?
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Barely. He's a hard-worker and has pace, but he doesn't offer much else. I'd rather we were playing Martial centrally (who's light years ahead of Welbeck, and playing a lot better than Rooney), with other players on the wing.
 
El Zoido said:
I'm starting to think it was written in to his new contract that he must play in every game.
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I keep saying this. Got to be something like this as no one can tell me all these coaches don't see the bleeding obvious.
 
His days of being a top class striker are over. He's so ineffective. He caused the City defence absolutely no problems. We will be a better team when Martial is playing as a striker.
 
You can understand if a striker looks bereft of confidence, it doesn't find it's way too far into the rest of the team but it can't be coming from your captain, he has no belief in himself right now on a football pitch, how can he be asked to lead with that being the case ?
 
He gave in 100% effort today but the quality of his football was piss poor. Some of his touches were Sunday league standard.
 
gza the genius said:
Got this from Twitter: "@danielstorey85: 55% passing accuracy for Wayne Rooney. No shots on target. No chances created. Lost possession five more times than any other player."

But yeah, not too bad.
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Get stats of other attackers from the same game and compare it then. He was not as bad as people are making him out to be. Like I said, if people are considering more than just this game I understand but this game alone wasn't that bad.
 
Hernandez - BFA said:
I supported him during half time, and I stand by that. Second half, he looked a lot more tired and less effective than ever up front but he still put in a shift in defence for us.

I'm annoyed he didn't get subbed because he looks fecking shattered. I think people go over board with the hate/criticism here but it does annoy me that LVG refuses to sub him.
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Quite frankly I don't give a shit what our main striker does for us defensively. It was always an added bonus before that he offered help defensively but when it gets to a point where that's all he offers then you have a big problem.
 
Cheesy said:
Barely. He's a hard-worker and has pace, but he doesn't offer much else. I'd rather we were playing Martial centrally (who's light years ahead of Welbeck, and playing a lot better than Rooney), with other players on the wing.
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Think your missing what I said, we had and sold Danny. If we can buy a Bale then I agree with you. Plus Danny's link up play is excellent and far better than Wayne's.
 
Can't Phil Jones give him one of his specials during a training session to sideline him for a few weeks, that way we can actually experiment how much more improved we'd be without him.
 
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