Love giving him a telling to, was the highlight of the match for me.
The purple patch has ended.
The purple patch has ended.
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His link up play is shocking.
When you are looking on enviously at Jermain Defoe's hold up play...
I missed the game, was he at Lewandowski level once again?
His movement is a world apart from Rooney's. It's saddening really.
Poor today, but there were others that were worse.
Come on China, take this donkey away from us.
The really important thing is that Rooney will break Charlton's record. Who the feck cares about tropheys or playing in the CL? Feck off, you Rooney haters.
And Defoe was carrying an injury.
Then he got you fooled. He does that every match. He walks around the pitch for 80 minutes, then starts sprinting around "trying to make things" happen in the last ten minutes. He did nothing the entire match, except give the ball away. Just re-watch the match and notice it, or simply notice it next match because it happens every bleeding match.
If Lewandowski had the flu and suffering from Tourettes, then yes.
He's awful. It just boggles the mind. I can't fathom how he's afforded chance after chance.
Back to his usual level this season..
This may sound unfair, and there are other culprits aswell, but keeping Rooney is a lone striker is a huge reason for our problems imo. Any striker worth his salt, has either hold up play, pace or good technical ability, the current Rooney has none of those and it really hurts us in attack. He can't hold of defenders, he never makes any clever moves and we all know his dribbling is just abysmal
Then we have Lingaard on the left who is hit and miss to put it lightly and Mata who i would consider a fair weather player, which leaves poor Martial to do all the work
This may sound unfair, and there are other culprits aswell, but keeping Rooney is a lone striker is a huge reason for our problems imo. Any striker worth his salt, has either hold up play, pace or good technical ability, the current Rooney has none of those and it really hurts us in attack. He can't hold of defenders, he never makes any clever moves and we all know his dribbling is just abysmal
Then we have Lingaard on the left who is hit and miss to put it lightly and Mata who i would consider a fair weather player, which leaves poor Martial to do all the work
Spot on
Why Tourette's? Lol
Best thing he did all day was track back faster than Memphis to prove just how lazy the latter is. Still not really the point of your centre forward mind.
It's not at all unfair. Having a striker with no hold up play, poor link up play, doesn't run in behind, can't beat a defender and is woeful in the air is always going to hinder your attack. That's what he is, a hindrance.
inspiring words after the game from the captain
I said this some months ago. We need to drop Rooney and start thinking ahead. Today again, it felt like playing a 4-6-0 formation. We are really wasting Martial out wide just to accommodate Rooney who wouldn't play as a striker. I can only imagine if we had played with a front 3 of Lingard, Mata and Memphis with Martial ahead of them, there are chances that despite them being relatively young, the game time would have done a world of good and they surely couldn't have been as bad as the senior players. Also the the amount of pace they would have provided would have seen us over the line a few times too.
If we're to truly evolve into a good team, he needs to be sold. Enough is enough. It gets to a point when it's good for both player and club for them to part ways. That period had arrived a long time ago.
Any game where a team packs the defense tightly and he needs to operate as an attacking fulcrum will see this type of performance from him, the touch, strength and skill are not there for it and he doesn't have the pace to get on the last shoulder and pressure CB's to offer a threat that way. As the second half went on he seemed to abandon his role and started to drop deeper which also crowded out Mata.
Mourinho will ultimately fail if he sticks with him.
That's a shame, I was almost convinced that he is back after those Lewandowski comparisions here.
Who made them? Is that for real?
Cheers steve
Have you seen him receive the ball or try to make a simple pass?
Not sure if serious, but he has never been a similar player to Lewandowski, and the gulf between them in class at present is that of the Grand Canyon.
What did it say?
If Lewandowski were fat, slow, unable to control a ball, measure passes then yes.
There was lot of praise lately even though his all around play was still crap and someone actually said something like that he was playing at equal level to Lewandowski in one or two games, or that his all around play was equally good, can't remember the best, but it was definitely one of those two, and both are ridiculous claims.
There's always an excuse for Rooney - he wasn't the only one who was rubbish, but when was he the only player who stood out positively and really carried the team? Smelling did that, as does DDG and Martial, but I can't recall the last time Rooney did.
It was a conversation between me and Snow, he said Rooney's level in those games was on par with an average level Lewandowski performance, not his best level.
They're back
If he has an ounce of respect for us, he'll voluntarily choose to leave in the summer. Expecting him to accept a huge fee from China as an apology to the club and fans for the past few seasons may be far fetched though.
He's not going to break the record this season. He may well want to stay on till he does.
He's not going to break the record this season. He may well want to stay on till he does.
Good post.
But what annoys me is his lack of discipline. Hes our centre forward, but how much time does he spend leading the line? How much does he drop back? Even his booking, it was because he dropped close to half way line, mis controlled a ball thrown to him and he has to foul the player on the half way line.
Hes basically a big reason for our decline. Its not unfair to say, with the way were paying him and treating him like Ronaldo and Messi, he really should be performing like them. And not just three or four games a season, he should be carrying us, not only to top for but carrying us to the title.
Hold up play and runs down the channels - non existent. Kudos to him for his recent goalscoring form, but if he is an automatic starter next season, we're achieving nothing.
And after a heavy dose of quaaludes.
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