Oddly good in the 10 position.
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Not a fan. Poor man’s Fellaini towards the end of the 2nd half, which is promising at least.
Weghorst with his best Emile Heskey impression today. 
Acted as a good outball and laid it off nicely when he had it.
Pity about his lack of pace. Does a lot of good things but will never be a threat in behind because he's slow.
Acted as a good outball and laid it off nicely when he had it.
Pity about his lack of pace. Does a lot of good things but will never be a threat in behind because he's slow.
So Wout is better as a 10. Who da tunk it.
Showed why we need kane dropping deep.
You mean the 2nd half of the 2nd half? Because he was just as bad as in the first up until he was moved deeper. People saying he had a good game are lying to themselves as he simply cannot lead the line for us and play as a striker. Nowhere near good enough for that role. In a slightly deeper role looked quite a lot better.
Yeah, Rashford up top stretches out the center backs and it leaves one of Garnacho and Sancho out left based on form/rotation. Weghorst is also solid defensively in that position which is usually the weakspot of a striker dropping deep.
ten Hag turned him into Zidane in second half. Genius move from ten Hag.
What you're saying there are two different things. You can have a good game and not be good enough overall.
We can all agree he's not United quality but he does have some of the spirit. Worked his socks off today and contributed well. Quite a surprise he looked better as a SS. He did fine today I think.
Nothing special but does the job, certainly much better than Caf would like you to think.
Struggling after what I saw in the first half honestly
He did play well deeper in fairness, and works really hard. It’s not his fault he’s having to play so many minutes.I gladly disagree.
The positive change mostly came from switching Rashford up front. Tactically. Before that it was the same shite as midweek, with Leeds was comfortable staying compact, and pressed to isolated our back line to the midfield and advanced players. This hindered the whole team, overall play. It's not Bruno being bad, Sancho is not working hard...
Leeds can't deal with the running in behind, which WW is terrible at, while Rashford offered plenty.
Even after the switch, before Rashford showed how superior he is as CF with the goal, WW was mostly terrible. Even with his height, he failed to shield aerial ball, and chested it down few time. Fellaini was much better for this role, and it's not something we should be proud to see again. Also failed to play Garnacho/ Rashford through in similar situation to second goal earlier.
The offside goal at the end, showed how inferior his instinct as a striker is. It's like one of those thoughtless moment. He just kept moving forward, and stuck there, when he had time to tried to get back onside.
He had a good 15-20 minutes spell.
Ten Hag knows a 10 when he sees one
Which contributed heavily to us winning the game.
I really hate to say it because he's such a trier and seems like a top professional who desperately wants to do well here but I just don't think he is very good.
He was okayish as usual.
He was okayish as usual.
You don't list any alternative options though. Would you prefer Elanga play up top? Whats the alternative when Martial is out, Antony is out, Sancho is not fit for 90 minutes, and Garnacho is clearly better as a substitute right now. Its really easy to say he isn't good enough, but how about offering a realistic different plan?
He presses relentlessly. Brilliant move by EtH to drop him deeper and disrupt Leeds' midfield.
Did well the last 20 minutes. Beautiful assist. Not good enough as a striker however.
I appreciate his effort but getting Martial fully fit for the rest of the year is vital to us. I don't blame Wout. He should be a sub option.
I don't disagree.
He did, now let's hope we never play him as a striker again because it's pointless.
He’s awful but if we didn’t have him we’d be in a mess right now. Elanga? No thanks.
Every game I see him start I just get more annoyed at Martial truthfully.
Every game I see him start I just get more annoyed at Martial truthfully.
He’s a sub. I can’t possibly criticise him.
Again, just doing a decent job. Nice assist and brilliant workrate but almost zero goal threat.
Depends on the game/opposition.
His goal should have stood today
It didn't. Had nothing to do with Shaw's excellent assist and Rashford's excellent header.
Unless you mean him moving from that position where he was pointless and allowing Rashford to score from the position he was supposed to be occupying allowed us to score, then you are right.
Yes it did.
Garnacho Rashford Sancho
Why not? No Elanaga included.
In the end, both games, the change all came down with Rashford moving up top and stretching play with offball run. He also scored both heading poacher's goal, while in comparison, WW has been terrible with his poaching movement.
It's not our players refused to feed WW. Its WW position, and positioning that is a problem. He's not lazy, but his positioning is not very good.
He's woeful. But also credit to him that he did pretty well as a 10 and did well defensively from there. But generally, he's woeful. Thought at first he'd be better than Ronaldo at least, but not sure he is even playing at that level. At least he's not on 500k per week and isn't an issue off the pitch. So overall still a win.
Keep repeating that, you can actually convince someone if you keep doing it.
Does that mean he had a good game then? Because he was useless up top in all facets yet again, and only played better as a 10 (which is laughable considering we are so thin at striker that we loaned him for that position in the first place)
There are many others in the thread that have said similar but okay.
The alternative option is so obvious I didn’t realise I actually had to state it but it would be to play Rashford upfront with Garnacho & Sancho either side, with Antony to come in and rotate when back. Garnacho might be better as a sub, but he’s still far better starting then Weghorst will ever be. And if Sancho can’t play a full 90 yet that’s when we can bring on Weghorst/Pellistri/Elanga depending on how the games going and what is needed.
Anonomious again first half, but good after the break. Better than his last couple of performances.
September 2021 was last time he played 90 minutes for us. The guy is made of tissue paper. We can't get 2 games in a row out of him let alone rest of the year.
Except he is right.
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