He seemed to look so much sharper for a few minutes after he scored, then he went back to being pretty crap.
Still, good goal.
Still, good goal.
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 41
- Goals
- 15
- Assists
- 6
- Yellow cards
- 5
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I thought he was good. Going by his recent standards especially. A solid 7 or 8 IMO.
It will never cease to amaze me how Rooney can go from garbage to great in the blink of an eye. Despite his dreadful attempt to convert Mata's square ball into a goal, Rooney was playing okay against CSKA. Then he scored and all off a sudden he's pulling off outside of the foot flicks to play in Lingard! The difference between Rooney when he's in the zone and when he's not is amazing. People used to talk about Nani as a confidence player, Rooney's even more so. He went from 5/6 out of 10 to 7/8 out of 10 instantly.
Shocking. Lucky he scored that goal or he'd have got a 1.
Getting the goal from a good run will give him breathing room from the fact it was another performance littered with sloppy passing and poor touch. It was better than the last few games but it's not saying much.
His best perfomance this season definitely.
Fair play to him. I really wanted him dropped for this game but he scored the vital goal so well done to him
we needed that, and he needed that.
seemed to turbo blast him for a while after, looked a real weight off mind job. The getting up well, flicking it on, and getting onto his own flick was my favourite bit.
seemed to turbo blast him for a while after, looked a real weight off mind job. The getting up well, flicking it on, and getting onto his own flick was my favourite bit.
Easily the best he's looked all season, still fluffed a couple relatively easy chances though and would likely be getting slaughtered again if Lingard didn't hand him a goal.
I'm glad he looked better but I'm afraid it will just serve to buy him more time when he inevitably plays shit again soon.
I'm glad he looked better but I'm afraid it will just serve to buy him more time when he inevitably plays shit again soon.
Better. Still not up to par, but better and won the match. Can't complain too much about that.
I only saw the second half, but this strikes me as being way over the top.
Not seen him celebrate a goal like that in a while
Let's not go over the top, it was a decent game and I'm happy for him that he scored after that horrendous miss beforehand. I do think that goal now secures his place in the starting XI for the foreseeable future so I hope he can turn his form around.
Because he scored a goal. He's being built up again, but he gave another performance exactly in keeping with the rest of his performances this season. he was helped by having martial up front with him, but he did absolutely nothing until he scored.
playing him in his right position makes a huge difference and so does having fast wingers. we cannot play mata and rooney in the same team if rooney plays as a 10. just doesnt work.
. That's because he hasn't scored in a while.He was decent today, even without the goal.
Anybody noticed when he celebrated the goal he looked like he had no eyes? Creepy.
Anybody noticed when he celebrated the goal he looked like he had no eyes? Creepy.
He was never a 1/10 without the goal, don't be absurd. In the first half he was clearly much sharper, his passing was improved and he rarely lost the ball. Yes, the miss was a shocker and it was a relatively easy header for him, but that first post you made is laughable.
I thought he was very good throughout, apart from some sloppiness in the last 5 minutes.
OK. We'll see. He looked better because we had 70% possession and were committing 5/6 players to every attack, but his overall contribution was again very small. He didn't create anything, and he's supposed to be the no.10, but I guess that's a great performance for some people.
Odd. He put Lingard through on goal in the first 15 minutes and linked midfield and attack very, very well. He was easily our best attacker.
As good as anyone on the pitch tonight but still a shadow of Rooney in the past. Indian summer.
This goal will only make LvG more stubborn about playing him.. 
Joke, I'm glad he scored!
Joke, I'm glad he scored!
With some people no matter what he does he will get slated from now on, he's been receiving fair criticism over the last few months people should also be fair and give him some credit when it's due.
The Rooney propaganda machine rolls back into town with the efficiency of a float without a battery.I have the same view. The set up and attacking intent of the side made a hell of a difference.
Has anyone said it was a 'great' performance? Not that I've read. Almost every post apart from yours in here since full time rates him as 'average', 'better' or 'good' and his rating so far is 6.5.
As I said, because he scored a goal. Imagine what the rating would be if it were somebody else nodding it in. He'd easily be below a 5. I gave him a 3, because at least he just lacked any kind of threat tonight, rather than giving the ball away every second touch.
Did well tonight. Solid 7/10 performance which ultimately won us the game with a well taken goal.
We are where we are, he is our captain and has us hostage to his enormous contract, so we have to make it work with him in the side. I hope he can gain sufficient motivation and confidence from tonights performance to propel him to a sustained run of form.
We are where we are, he is our captain and has us hostage to his enormous contract, so we have to make it work with him in the side. I hope he can gain sufficient motivation and confidence from tonights performance to propel him to a sustained run of form.
He won't be dropped so let's hope this is his at least standard from now on.
Was pretty decent today but he's still arse-clench inducing in and around goal. Just can't get away with missing half of the unmissable chances you're provided with.
I don't cut Rooney any slack nowadays (and I still think we ought not to think long term with him and that he should be dropped when he's shit) - but I was so happy for him today. I'm fervently hoping he uses this in the right way and gets some fire in his belly. No more complacent stuff, just keep going.
He wasn't, especially not easily.
It was decent-good game from him, but that's about it. Nothing special in that performance.
He was still our least involved attacking player even though he was dropping deep quite often almost playing as third midfielder. He was invisible at times, again had the worst passing accuracy bar Martial(altough it wasn't that bad as in other games), and he was dispossesed more than others. Also almost costed us 3 points again today, he should thank Smalling and de Gea for keeping us in the game.
His understanding with Martial is worrying, but I won't blame him for that because Martial is even worse with his understanding of Rooneys movement.
If we accept he is erratic at least he hit some higher notes today than he has done for the majority of the season. Still had his moments of bizarre direness but they were somewhat less frequent and infinitely more ignorable when mixed amongst decent and dare I say good contributions.
I still only gave him 6/10 though.
I still only gave him 6/10 though.
Thought it was a good performance overall, arguably his best in a while. Some of the things he tried didn't come off, needs to be more decisive in-front of goal; but he functioned well as the midfield-attack link and seemed busy throughout. Hope Rooney can turn out games like this on a regular basis. He's going to start anyway, might as well get used to it, and hope he does well/ isn't an impediment to atleast see the season out.
PS: The attack in general seemed more fluid tonight, and Rooney was the pick of the bunch. Despite the lack of goals for the majority of the game, we looked way more threatening than recent weeks. But the players have to start converting chances, and as the most experienced attacking player, Wayne has to compose himself and lead the charge. 1 goal from 15 shots on target is a pedestrian conversion rate to be honest. Thought, atleast this time around there were double digit shots on targets. Signs of progress right there.
PS: The attack in general seemed more fluid tonight, and Rooney was the pick of the bunch. Despite the lack of goals for the majority of the game, we looked way more threatening than recent weeks. But the players have to start converting chances, and as the most experienced attacking player, Wayne has to compose himself and lead the charge. 1 goal from 15 shots on target is a pedestrian conversion rate to be honest. Thought, atleast this time around there were double digit shots on targets. Signs of progress right there.
Decent game from him, looks promising. Still some terrible moments and a bad miss but much better than the past weeks.
Certainly one of his best performances this season (only other one up there is Brugge). For a brief few minutes after scoring he looked like he might have his mojo back.
You gave him a three. Good God. I'm in neither camp but sweet Jesus, to feel that level of contempt for one of your own must take away a bit of the enjoyment of watching your team, no? Or is enjoyment a silly concept to introduce here? Maybe Niall could introduce a facility whereby you could fill out your ratings in advance of matches seeing as what actually happens in them seems to be of little interest to you.
how many is he behind SBC for club?
his first 20 minutes when we dominated the game was his best this season but then he absolutely vanished from the game and was poor, only to score the important header. Overall he deserves praise, he wasn't the worst palyer on the pitch..
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