The thing is, in terms of overall play, he not been bad at all, in fact, he's been very good. But the problem has been that his finishing has taken a massive downward spiral in the past 2 months or so, and people are just concentrating on that, and therefore saying he is playing bad.
The problem with his finishing, IMO, is a mental thing. Because he hasn't scored for a while, he is so desperate, that he is thinking about it way to much, rather than just hitting it. If we go back to the start of the season, his finishing was fine, of course he'd still miss the odd chance, but that's what you get with Rooney, but on the whole, he was good.
Of course injuries have really affected him this season, whenever he's got on a role, he's gotten injured. But to say he has lost his spark is nonsense, if you need any evidence of that, go back to the FA Cup match vs Villa, he came on, changed the game, and we won, when, before he came on, we looked like getting a draw at best.
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Originally Posted by Twisted_Woody
An idea might be to play Tevez as a striker and then Rooney can resume his withdrawn forward role.
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I'd very much like to see this happen. Because, from what we've seen, Tevez is a better finisher than Rooney anyway.