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2015-16 Performances

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5.6 Season Average Rating
Appearances
41
Goals
15
Assists
6
Yellow cards
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This is what weve needed him to do since the beginning of the season tbh. But if he continues doing this (well goals mostly) until the end of the season, it will be great for us. Nothing we shouldnt be expecting but he looked sharp, got a goal, an assist and a disallowed goal too. Good movement as well.

As long as it doesnt take him 6 months to warm up next season :D
 
Really happy for him. We all know he is physically declining and was awful for alot of 2015 but he is such a clever footballer. He isn't he same player as he was up until his mid 20s but you trust him to make the right decision on the pitch.
 
Very happy he's kept up this run of from. Long may it continue, it actually give us some hope of salvaging something from the season. Fair play to him for turning it around and shutting a few of us up. (Myself included).
 
Was really good tonight. Despite scoring since the turn of the year, his touch and general play was still off. Seems to me as if that's coming back as well recently. Happy for him to silence the critics, including me.
 
What a difference compared to earlier in the season. Imagine if he'd played like this from the start of the season, we wouldn't be questioning a position in the top four. It would probably be almost guaranteed.
 
Take away his goal tonight, and he still would get a 7/8 out of 10 for me. His overall play in the last few games has really improved. His touch, his link up play, his movement, etc. It's obvious that with his goals, he's also starting to gain a lot of confidence, and I guess it's starting to show in his and the teams performances.
 
He's been very good of late and I think he's not just been playing for the record but his career/s with England and United. He's at a very good level now but we've a better pace/tempo at the minute. Hopefully that'll continue against Chelsea.
 
Long may this form continue. Strange how getting a consistent amount of goals just gives you so much confidence... His disallowed goal I thought was exquisite. Still can't believe the ref disallowed that :rolleyes:
 
Annoying that it took 4 months of dire performances to get to this level.

Purple patch aside, we still need to replace him in the summer with Harry Kane. £50 million should do it.
 
Proving some people wrong (including myself), I didn't think he had this type of form left in him. It's still extremely frustrating that it took 4 months to reach this point though and I still think he needs replaced in the summer, or at least bring someone in to challenge him if he goes through poor form again.
 
Oldham said:
Much better from him. His best game this season I think.
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If we want to be punctilious we'd say that that isn't saying a lot. However, I know you didn't mean it that way, and I do agree. Long may it continue.
 
Confidence is there - he's even having a go from a distance even if they are speculative. With him in form, it opens up the game for others because now he has to be marked better. Hope he tears Chelsea new one on Sunday.
 
Jazz said:
Long may this form continue. Strange how getting a consistent amount of goals just gives you so much confidence... His disallowed goal I thought was exquisite. Still can't believe the ref disallowed that :rolleyes:
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He's not Jamie Vardy. He's not allowed to barge defenders over willy-nilly.
 
I don't know what has happened to him, but he is really turning up these days.

Everything he has been criticised for, he is now answering in full and looking like the real deal again! First touch, passing, scoring, and his speed is back too.
 
Summit said:
I don't know what has happened to him, but he is really turning up these days.

Everything he has been criticised for, he is now answering in full and looking like the real deal again! First touch, passing, scoring, and his speed is back too.
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Looks like he had the right drink this New Year!!!
 
gza the genius said:
Proving some people wrong (including myself), I didn't think he had this type of form left in him. It's still extremely frustrating that it took 4 months to reach this point though and I still think he needs replaced in the summer, or at least bring someone in to challenge him if he goes through poor form again.
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More like 6-7 months, if you include the last months of last season. Basically, he was shit for almost the whole calendar year with scoring only 6 PL goals.

Now he looks sharper but I'm afraid that it won't last long and that his form may have something to do with the quality of the opposition. Some not so good teams like Swansea, Newcastle, Burnley, Stoke (yesterday) played quite open football and left our forwards acres of space. Liverpool and Soton weren't great either but were pressing us well and we were crap. Let's see how well we'll do against Chelsea who haven't been great in defence either. Once we play a team that is very well organised and closes down the spaces well, Rooney will struggle again.

Basically, one or even 2-3 months of good/excellent form do not erase about 3 years of decline. Therefore, I agree that we have to replace both LVG and Rooney in the summer. Otherwise, we'll find ourselves fighting for 4th next season again with Rooney losing form for months again.
 
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I thought he was quite excellent. His goal aside, the all round play was there, and he was bringing the ball down and bringing people into play. I thought his disallowed goal was the correct decision to be honest. The movement of his arms as he pushed the defender aside was obvious.

However, this is nothing new from Rooney. A few weeks of him in a purple patch, in between months of him being dire. Just like how I'm not getting carried away with Van Gaal's management and this win, I'm not sure we've seen the last of pub player Rooney.
 
Very happy for Rooney. Looking sharp and dangerous. Just wish Spurs would stop picking up points. At this rate maybe only Arsenal looking like dropping out of the top four.
 
Good to see him finally back and doing well, but that took him too long! We cant play him for half a season and hope that he eventually finds form
 
starting to resemble a top end footballer. looks like he's finally converted his goalscoring run to confidence on the pitch. hope he continues his form.
 
Red hot. I don't know how he caught up and bullied Johnson for his disallowed goal. In the past few months he has been custard.
 
littlepeasoup said:
He's not Jamie Vardy. He's not allowed to barge defenders over willy-nilly.
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Usually I just laugh at jokes like these but you're so right, Vardy could full on punch someone and probably still get away with it.

On another note, whatever Rooney had for his Christmas dinner he needs to keep taking it! He and Martial have developed such a good understanding recently, it's genuinely exciting to watch.
 
Awesome recent turnaround given the dire season.

Shame it's taken him so damn long to get going. I don't think anyone (myself included) would have ever suggested he couldn't be a squad player next season (capable of contributing more goals) but I still don't think it's wise to rely on such an inconsistent player.
 
Just shows how much better off we would be if we had another competent striker (or winger, with Martial up top) to play when Rooney is off form.

Another striker is a priority in the summer.
 
Credit to the guy, he's been really good in 2016. Doesn't change the fact that he's fecked us all 2015, but it's a start. I'm relieved to see him back he should probably be our player of the month for January.
 
More needs to be made about how ridiculous that shoulder-barge decisionw was... the ref obviously didn't think it was a foul, otherwise he'd have blown up straight away... instead he ended up shitting himself and second guessing his decision.

Really though, that's the other way round and Johnson barges Rooney like that, there is no feckin' chance on earth that it would be a penalty.
 
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Just shows how much better off we would be if we had another competent striker (or winger, with Martial up top) to play when Rooney is off form.

Another striker is a priority in the summer.
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Indeed, provided that the other striker would have played when Rooney wasn't in form.

But, in reality, the other striker would have sit on the bench. Because the philosophy is to play Rooney into form even if the process takes 5-6 months and we are already 5th in the league and out of the CL when Rooney is finally ready to deliver what is expected from the main United striker.
 
Anyone notice how much better he has been since that one game LvG dared to drop him?

I'm not saying complacency is the whole issue with Rooney, but i'd say it's a pretty big one.
 
LawCharltonBest said:
Anyone notice how much better he has been since that one game LvG dared to drop him?

I'm not saying complacency is the whole issue with Rooney, but i'd say it's a pretty big one.
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I think his good form has more to do with the fact that he was out for several weeks in December and could improve on his fitness. He's returned in a much better phyiscal shape than he was before that. How long he will be able to sustain this physical form is another question and I'm not optimistic about that.
 
tarjei2k said:
If we want to be punctilious we'd say that that isn't saying a lot. However, I know you didn't mean it that way, and I do agree. Long may it continue.
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First time i've actually seen that word worked into a sentence, and on a football forum no less.

Well done ;)
 
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