Average performance, brilliant goal. He'd be a good backup striker if he'd be willing.
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Also, this was Derby.
Can't argue with 6 goals in 6 game since the Xmas period. And he's scored in 5 of his last 6 games to. Hopefully he can maintain that consistency.
And actually, if you made a highlights reel of his season to date, he'd look class.
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What a goal that was last night, he's looked very sharp recently except for the Southampton game but everyone was bad in that game.
If he keeps up his average rate of scoring for the season to date (0.44 per game) he'll just break it, if he plays all of our remaining games. But if he goes on a run between now and May, he should break it easily.
That goal reminded me so much of the Bilbao(?) game a few years ago.
That's the one.. I thought he was out wider though, my mistake. Cracking goal all the same.
there was one lay off Rooney did, and you actually could hear Murphy's cum gasp
Great finish by Wayne yesterday. Nice to see him continuing his goalscoring form. 13 goals this season when we look at how he's played and how the team has played is a good return, in my opinion. Long may it continue.
This will be the dream scenario if he doesn't move on. I'm not convinced we can bring a WC class striker with Rooney being the main guy.
I'm not convinced we're willing to demote him from the "privileges" position.
Ok, he has picked this season but he is on a decline no doubt and next season would be more unbearable to witness. We need to knock down this privileges and face facts and move on. I can imagine what the season would have looked like if we have dropped him and gave Memphis and Young on wings, Mata at #10 and Martial up front, it may have been better.
You're not, you keep comparing current Rooney to current Lewandowski and completely negate the positive form Rooney has shown from his worst spell in his career. Rooney was very positive, was aggressive in his attack and defense and defenders backed away from him when he turned with the ball. They see Rooney in goal scoring form and they get scared.
If he goes on a run til end of season well make top 4. If he doesn't we won't. It's that simple!
LVG, the other players and all the fans have to get fully behind Rooney til end of this season as our prestige for next year is largely on his shoulders.
I think he can do it, as long as Martial, Mata and Herrera can also find similar form to create enough chances for him to convert.
I doubt it. Mata and Memphis form has been worse than Rooney this season and Martial, though undoubtedly talented has been inconsistent.
rooney has not had a good season and seems to be in decline, but he still remains one of our best players. Likewise, the service provided to him has been woeful.
How can a striker be supposed to succeed with a meagre 2 or 3 Chances per game? In years gone by, strikers like Cole or Saha would miss 4 chances per game only to score with their 5th! Those days seems so long ago!!!!
This, Mata has been woeful all season and Memphis while I personally think he will come good has hardly set the world a light, some people have an agenda against Rooney, he had a bad spell, sometime over the next two years we are going to have to fade him out but he's clearly still one of our better players. This thing with Martial up top I actually think for his development he's better where he is, he is the one person in our team who can beat people and how the team is set up currently he would be wasted at 9.
No, I simply see an average performance and say so, I expect Manchester United to have top quality up front, not this kind of mediocrity that is being passed off as acceptable because his prior performance was utter shit. Just because it was a bit better than he's been playing it doesn't make it good.
He's had only one really class performance this season against a relatively good team (Newcastle, they gave him acres of space though). The rest have been moslty poor to average performances with several class goals.
6 goals in 20 PL games and 1 goal in 4 CL group games is very average, if not poor for a main striker at United. Goals against teams like Brugge, Ipswich, Sheffield Un., Sunderland, Derby County distort the statistical picture of his season so far.
It is not by coincidence that we are already out of the CL and 5th in the EPL. Rooney was pathetic in the first half of the season. 2 goals and 1 assist in 16 PL games is beyond atrocious.
Hopefully he continues with his goal-scoring form from January till the end of the season, orherwise we won't finish in top 5. Unfortunately, I can't see it happen. Even during this statistically great month for Rooney his all-round game was poor in half of the games - against SU, Liverpool and Soton - and great only in one of them. LVG said recently that he put all his money on Rooney. Very bad choice, IMO, and it will cost him the managerial position at United. Soon rather than late.
If we fail to sign a top forward in the summer, next season won't be much different from this.
I wish Rooney to prove LVG right and his critics wrong.
6 goals in 20 PL games and 1 goal in 4 CL group games is very average, if not poor for a main striker at United. Goals against teams like Brugge, Ipswich, Sheffield Un., Sunderland, Derby County distort the statistical picture of his season so far.
It is not by coincidence that we are already out of the CL and 5th in the EPL. Rooney was pathetic in the first half of the season. 2 goals and 1 assist in 16 PL games is beyond atrocious.
Hopefully he continues with his goal-scoring form from January till the end of the season, orherwise we won't finish in top 5. Unfortunately, I can't see it happen. Even during this statistically great month for Rooney his all-round game was poor in half of the games - against SU, Liverpool and Soton - and great only in one of them. LVG said recently that he put all his money on Rooney. Very bad choice, IMO, and it will cost him the managerial position at United. Soon rather than late.
If we fail to sign a top forward in the summer, next season won't be much different from this.
I wish Rooney to prove LVG right and his critics wrong.
Newcastle were 2nd from bottom when we played them
True, this is why i said "relatively good"
However, Newcastle are still better than Brugge, SU, Derby, Ipswich, etc. It was a class performance fom him.
By what standards are comparing how bad Mata and Depay has been worse than Rooney. The thing with forum is the double standards that we use to judge player expectations and performances. It seems that Memphis has not been judged considering all reasonable circumstances. To be fair is to judge him as a 20 year old player coming into a new and more difficult league AND compare him with other 20 year old players around the world. To be fair is to consider that it is unreasonable to expect such a player to set the league alight. To be fair is to consider his age and experience. Any fan that thinks Memphis is coming to a new league as a superstar is just in dreamland, actually inconsistency is actually part of progress for such a player. Putting that into perspective, he isn't a failure or as bad as people are making out.
Should Rooney not be compare to other players around the world with similar circumstances and experience? You will be find out that he has had an absolutely poor season. I would say that he and Fellaini have been the worst players is we honestly consider what is expected of them. Using the same ruler to measure Rooney and Memphis is like using the same ruler to measure Messi and Townsend.
We should be expecting more from the likes of these players and not comparing them with inexperienced players in our squad. Memphis putting in a 6/10 performance should be the same as Rooney putting in an 8.5/10 performance.
This is what worries me. It's almost like fans don't watch matches but look forward to highlights. A player can put in a 2/10 performance and yet score the winner in the last minute and he gets bumped to a 7/10 performance. I'm happy that we have a player that is scoring goals, regardless of who it is. I don't care if it Rooney or not at this stage. Rooney has had a free ride in squad all season and without any competition whatsoever it was only a matter of time before he became the sole provider of goals, its common sense.The same thing happened to Borini at Sunderland, he didn't become a better player, they persisted with his muck until he eventually found some form.
Same with Fellaini last season, after a series of 3/10 performances he put a string of 6-7/10 performances and he was given a god like status. Why? There was a 3-4 point increase that blew everyone away. At United a 6/10 should not have us drooling, this should be regular. Rooney is doing exactly the same and we are drooling.
The most concerning aspect is that the board at the club might be thinking this way, and we'll go into next season with him still starting every week.
Slow-moooooooooooo.
Classic Rooney finish though, isn't it?
And if he does end up breaking the scoring record, as least it's a record full of absolute pearlers. Rather that than a tap-in man having it.
Need a bit of that old magic against City / Arsenal / Chelsea / Spurs as well i'd say.
Couldn't have put it better myself. People are losing their shit over a decent performance against a Championship side that wasn't fresh and not on form.
Can see the Bilbao fans looking shocked and then applauding the goal.
Rooneys going to have a hell of a 'best goals' compilation when his career is over.
So I ran into this guy over the weekend and he was exceedingly happy about being 'proved right'. I told him it was a coincidence but he just said wait and see, he is 100% convinced that Rooney's current decent form will decline as the weather warms and that he will be 'absolute shite' in the Euros because of the French summer. He said he knows it's true because he used to play football in a compression top due to a back injury and the same thing happened to him.
This is a new low IMO. Really? He can't perform as well out of compression tops?
Definitely. Some absolute screamers (the Newcastle volley, the bicycle kick...) and a very large amount of great goals. You could most probably make a top 50 of his goals that would be very watchable.
To think he had a program of 'top 20 premier league goals' on him at the age of 23, he's scored a lot of screamers since. And that was league goals only.
Rooney's goal stats this season is skewed and should not be a valid defense. Addressing his position and captain-ship should be a priority in the summer.
The fact is our attack is toothless and all of Rooney, Mata, Memphis, Lingard, Young etc are equally responsible, with greater share of blame falling on Rooney due to seniority. None have produced the standard of performance required at this level, consistently or at all.
His current goal scoring form is a welcomed surprise although it cannot be ignored that he is finished at the highest level. I would argue even as a back-up, given his past tendency of having to be played into form.
Since he's our one established and the only striker (Martial pushed to the left due to Memphis poor form) we vitally need his goals to continue. We'll not only have a chance to finish top 4 but also market him to potential buyers.
For now, he's been a great servant to the club, a legend, and I hope he sets the goal record.
The fact is our attack is toothless and all of Rooney, Mata, Memphis, Lingard, Young etc are equally responsible, with greater share of blame falling on Rooney due to seniority. None have produced the standard of performance required at this level, consistently or at all.
His current goal scoring form is a welcomed surprise although it cannot be ignored that he is finished at the highest level. I would argue even as a back-up, given his past tendency of having to be played into form.
Since he's our one established and the only striker (Martial pushed to the left due to Memphis poor form) we vitally need his goals to continue. We'll not only have a chance to finish top 4 but also market him to potential buyers.
For now, he's been a great servant to the club, a legend, and I hope he sets the goal record.
City get Pep and they've already identified top talent as their next targets and nobody can deny they're moving in the right direction while we're still stuck here entertaining captain (I'm on nearly 300k a week and yet I play like a barely arsed pub player) Wayne flipping Rooney's tantrums.
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I agree with it.
I agree with it.
He's had a fantastic club career.
Not remotely as good as expected though. White Pele etc...
He has - thanks to SAF and the team.
If he wasn't good enough he wouldn't last so long at United.
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