Herrera was playing Llorente onside by standing on the line. In fact, he'd have been playing everyone onside. It was just a very good set piece.
'Wayne Rooney is a sacrificial lamb and I hate it'
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That would make sense and be true if teams weren't packing 11 players on the line of goal every match, Mike.
Wait a minute...
Wayne Rooney ate the sacrificial lamb.
Ah so that's why the football Gods hate us.
At least the Adoration of the Lamb is tailing off.
Watching him yesterday was more like Silence of the Lambs.
Rooney on a night out with one of his "older" fans.
Sacrificial lamb will help to feed up the hungry ones...So if he has to become one, let him be...
His time is up, we all see that...we are, Man Utd fans, see clearly...nothing can be offered by Rooney now...Even myself think looking by his game, China clubs won't pay much for him, as he now as slow as the Legend Big Dong...
Yes our path to be the best again may be as hard as the Pool one, perhaps we'll be a laughing stock, but garage sale of dead stock is unavoidable...
I don't know, call me pessimistic one...but perhaps, let invest more to Coaches and Scouts Department...may be hijack 1-2 from Juventus, Atletico, Monaco, and Dortmund...pay them twice...So we could find a really raw gems of youth...not just youths that being "best in academy", "being great in the reserve" but turn craps in the real league game....
just my 2 cents...
His time is up, we all see that...we are, Man Utd fans, see clearly...nothing can be offered by Rooney now...Even myself think looking by his game, China clubs won't pay much for him, as he now as slow as the Legend Big Dong...
Yes our path to be the best again may be as hard as the Pool one, perhaps we'll be a laughing stock, but garage sale of dead stock is unavoidable...
I don't know, call me pessimistic one...but perhaps, let invest more to Coaches and Scouts Department...may be hijack 1-2 from Juventus, Atletico, Monaco, and Dortmund...pay them twice...So we could find a really raw gems of youth...not just youths that being "best in academy", "being great in the reserve" but turn craps in the real league game....
just my 2 cents...
Every single touch looks like a misplaced pass, every tackle a certain foul, can't wait to see the back of him.
Yeah, passing to Llorente yesterday would have hardly worried me.
That goal from the free kick was a great example of the perfect set piece. I don't see DDG saving it even if he had positioned himself more centrally. Rooney gave away a silly foul but these things happen and I am sure on another chance the foul would not have resulted in a goal. As things stand, Rooney is so down on his luck (and ability currently) that anything he touches turns into a lump of turd.
I still don't get it what happened to him. Ageing superstars normally lose their freshness, they are becoming less and less sharp, but still have their skills, right? The way he plays from time to time, he can't even help a team in China now. (In the end, he is not able to deal with the whole situation and lost all of his self confidence, I guess.)
There will definitely be no "LambShank Redemption" for old Wayne
So then the manager should have pulled him off. That's on Mou. There was a lot more to be concerned with about yesterday's play then the one ill-advised foul by Rooney, IMO.
I agree with you but Mourinho's hands were tied because of the injuries and the substitutions. The way the game was going, we could have picked up an injury at any time and it would have been dangerous playing without a sub left.
Nice penalty, but everything else was like carrying a player.
I can't believe he thinks he has 2-3 years or more left at the top level.
I could only see it working for a team that treat him like an absolute don, and pack severe legs and pace round him as cover
I can't believe he thinks he has 2-3 years or more left at the top level.
I could only see it working for a team that treat him like an absolute don, and pack severe legs and pace round him as cover
To me all this praise for Rooney feels like non-Arsenal fans singing "Arsene Wenger we want you to stay".
I imagine in private most of these pundits know he's finished.
I imagine in private most of these pundits know he's finished.
True. Luke Shaw picking up another hang-nail barely 8 minutes in didn't help.
A lamb would probably give a better performance out there today than Rooney has.
And you could eat the fecker after!
But in marketing terms it may mean he sells another 500000 xxl jerseys in China this month
The only thing being sacrificed is our top four hopes with this joke on the field.
Huge wages, out of his last legs. We will be lucky if he leaves the club. I can see him seeing his contract out.
It would probably be more beneficial to sacrifice him to Cthulu than play him at this point. Him influencing a match is less outlandish than Cthulu.
I hate how he tries to foul players when he misses a tackle. A yellow card waiting to happen.
Wayne Rooney's number 1 request at a Stereosonic concert
Its quite astonishing how appauling he is compared to other professional footballers. I even think he'd struggle to get into a decent championship team.
Didn't even watch the game, was outside all day eating burgers and chilling, that's how little I care about the EPL, all EL boys.
Is there someone he doesn't like sitting behind the right post?
It's amazing that he is younger than Ronaldo and Robben
It's even more amazing that he still plays for this club
He'd be lucky to be a sacrificial lamb. Seems more like left over donner meat covered in tab ash and hairs on a Monday morning after a weekend bender.
I was excited when I saw the team sheet until I saw Rooney's name. I drove straight to the off-licence and got myself a bottle of Jameson whisky because I knew we were playing with 10 men. Losing doesn't hurt so much when you are plastered.
Rooney has driven me to the hard stuff. I now need help.
Rooney has driven me to the hard stuff. I now need help.
I loved how often he kept wistfully looking out to the right hand side when he had the ball and then his head dropped when he couldn't pass to Valencia.
He's a two tonne rhino, not a lamb.
Can't wait for Jose to get rid of him. The next time I would like to see him in a United shirt is in a testimonial, if he gets one.
He looked a broken man in the 2nd half when he finally realised his one trick left wasn't on.He's had his testiclemonia last year , all proceeds went to 'chharidee'