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2015-16 Performances

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5.6 Season Average Rating
Appearances
41
Goals
15
Assists
6
Yellow cards
5
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Not his worst game of the season, but nowhere near good enough.

Some nice touches, but not enough threat.
 
Anyone in the media, on the caf or in life that defends that tackle he made on Oscar too needs to re-evaluate their views on football and their innate bias towards Rooney.
 
Bloody pile of shit, should have scored that instead of skying it high. Also ridiculous studs up on Oscar and comical attempt to swipe at the ball for that play(although it was offside). That sad thing is that because he has had so many stinkers this season, this performance (which was wank at best) ranks as one of his best. It is embarrassing how the standards have been reduced for our strikers, we should have a 30 goal a season striker yet we have nothing but dog shit up front. Just shows us how far we have fallen.
 
I'm pretty sure that MOTM award on BT was decided by Rio, Gerrard and Scholes in the studio so it should be taken with a huge pinch of salt.
 
Viral United said:
Don't get me wrong, but when 19 year old Martial plays better then him, and still Martial send to Play LW or RW just to make Rooney ST, People going to moan.
Yes he has better game but I still think Martial could had done better job then Rooney.
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Martial wasn't exactly pulling up any trees when up top. Much better on the wing, in my opinion. Even when he's up top, he likes drifting wide anyway. We need a focal point, and today, Wayne was a lot better today at doing that, in my opinion.
 
Thought he played quite well. Should have scored though, and should have seen red at the end. Overall though he was fine. A few times when he gets the ball with his back to goal in the box, he should try and shoot instead of lay it off always.
 
Walters_19_MuFc said:
He has shown improvement today, and people are still moaning. Yes, he's not the Rooney he used to be, and by his old standards, or the standards of a typical United striker, his performance today probably wasn't anything special, but surely it has to be good signs that he shown an improvement today. We should be hoping he continues to put in these type of performances and better, rather than saying it still isn't good enough.
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The two positions are not mutually exclusive.
 
He actually had a good first half but his best situations in today's game were those when he layed the ball for our other players to score. Says a lot about him as a striker these days really, he doesn't present any threat whatsoever.
 
Walters_19_MuFc said:
Martial wasn't exactly pulling up any trees when up top. Much better on the wing, in my opinion. Even when he's up top, he likes drifting wide anyway. We need a focal point, and today, Wayne was a lot better today at doing that, in my opinion.
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He drifting wide for creating space, its not like he love to play wide profession.
He might not pulling up trees but you can sure he can deliver much better performance then Rooney.
 
We won't make top 4 if Rooney continues to start for us in the second half of the season. LVG has made a big mistake with Rooney and it is already too late to rectify it. He will get the sack within a month.

We have to sign a top forward in January. It is difficult but it may turn out to be the diffrence between finishing in and outside top 4.

United deserve a much better player than this Rooney: if not someone like Suarez or Lewandowksi, at least someone like Benzema. Rooney is about 1/3 the player that Suarez is and I'm being generous.
 
Overall he was better but he still missed a couple of relatively easy chances and never looked like scoring, which is still a pretty big problem when you consider he's a striker...
 
Will he ever score another goal for us?? And Gerrard is idiot if he thought Rooney was good today.. Should have scored and lucky to not getting a red card.
 
Thought he wasn't shit. Having a striker not lose the ball instantly seems to have contributed towards us being decent going forward. Second half, he was back to his normal self. Not MoTM worthy.
 
watching MOTD. Martial rinses ivanovic all game, creates a chance for himself hitting the post, sets up Herrera for a sitter yet Rooney gets motm
 
Seeing the chance again I don't think it was as easy as I first thought. Came across very quickly. First half was his best of the season by a mile. Sloppier in the second half but resembled a footballer at least today which is a positive step at least for now.
 
I don't see what was much improved ... He gave the ball away, should have been sent off and missed several good chances, more than that, he was voted as MOTM by a panel of 2/3 ex United players.. Come on.
 
His second best game of the season.

Not even close to man of the match though. And also when you look at that performance and realise that it was the second best performance of his season, at christmas, it's pretty pathetic
 
He showed improvement, he played better, and man of the match. My god standards have dropped!
£300 grand a week player getting judged like he'd just come through the academy.
Can't believe what I read and see.
 
I agree with everybody when they say that that performance was the least we should expect from our captain, a guy on 300K a week, and I have probably been as critical of Rooney as anybody for a couple of seasons now

But credit where credit is due, he played well today, performing a difficult job as a lone front-man against two good centre halves. Should have gone with his head at the end from the CBJ cross and would have made it all the better
 
Just got home from the game. Whilst he looked much better in the first half, hes a shocking player considering what we need from him.

Whilst some may say thats harsh, he really is done. He should not be playing 90 minutes for us. At this stage, he should be playing 20 minutes or something (and even then his finishing is so poor). He should not be our captain nor should he be seen as our taliman. More like a "luxury" or something.

Whatever he does in training or how he is in the locker room, theres no justifying him starting up top every match with output like that.
 
Anyone notice in the highlights package BT used to justify him being man of the match, most of the highlights of "great" hold up play involved him not actually being marked? It's easy to hold the ball up when no one is bothering with you.
 
Art Vandelay said:
Anyone notice in the highlights package BT used to justify him being man of the match, most of the highlights of "great" hold up play involved him not actually being marked? It's easy to hold the ball up when no one is bothering with you.
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That's his plan. Play so shit for one year that nobody even bothers to mark you, then rake in all those champagnes from BT and SKY for man of the match.
 
Art Vandelay said:
Anyone notice in the highlights package BT used to justify him being man of the match, most of the highlights of "great" hold up play involved him not actually being marked? It's easy to hold the ball up when no one is bothering with you.
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Yep, and every time he held onto the ball for more than a couple of seconds he lost it, and in the 2nd half both him and Schweinsteiger struggled as Chelsea started to actually press.
 
His general play was better than it has been (he actually controlled the ball). His finishing was poor, should have scored. Definitely not MoTM, strange decision to give him that. Decent.
 
It's annoying when people (not on here) say that we should play him because he's "still our best player" using achievements from 3 or 4 years ago as evidence. I wonder how they'd react if we brought up LVG's achievements from the 90's as a defence?
 
Were the golden boots he was wearing an ironic act of trolling?
Missed a sitter and should have been sent off.

1/10
 
Seems he can't receive and control a pass in his stride anymore. I think his legs are done. Looks as if he is in too bad physical shape to coordinate his body like he used to.
 
Surprising to see he was actually controlling the ball and had a first touch. Any improvement is welcome improvement i guess.
 
He's earned £1.65m since we last won a game.

He's earned £3.15m since he last scored a league goal.

Spare me the appreciation that he finally 'put a shift in'.
 
Goals per 90 minutes for whomever has played the most upfront for each team.

City - Aguero - 0.86
Leicester - Vardy - 0.86
Everton - Lukaku - 0.81
Arsenal - Giroud - 0.73
Tottenham - Kane - 0.59
Liverpool - Benteke - 0.47
Stoke - Bojan - 0.43
Southampton - Pelle - 0.40
Villa - Ayew - 0.40
Sunderland - Fletcher - 0.36
Chelsea - Costa - 0.35
Swansea - Gomis - 0.35
Watford - Deeney - 0.32
Newcastle - Mitrovic - 0.28
West Ham - Sakho - 0.26
Norwich - Jerome - 0.25
West Brom - Rondon - 0.21
Bournemouth - King - 0.20
Palace - Wickham - 0.15
United - Rooney - 0.14
 
Art Vandelay said:
Anyone notice in the highlights package BT used to justify him being man of the match, most of the highlights of "great" hold up play involved him not actually being marked? It's easy to hold the ball up when no one is bothering with you.
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It was quite obvious during the game too, they didn't decide to press him at all for some reason. Still, he had some decent lay offs, but that's just in first half, in second half he was invisible.
 
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