I wouldn't say Nani against Galatasaary was "terrible", but he definetly wasn't good. I thought he constantly losed the ball, and slowed down our play which is ridiculous considering he's one of our most creative and quickest players.
I expect he'll be dropped for the next PL game (and the COC game) if Fergie continues the "mistake = your dropped" routine at the moment.
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didn't though, can't you read? He had 80% pass completion, more touches than any other player and more passes than any other player (bar Carrick). There's no way you can justify saying that if you actually watched the match. He had a poor penalty and a few erratic shots but that was basically it!
Ashley Young played 10 hours less football than Nani last season yet scored two goals less and only one less assist. Thats 25% less game time than Nani yet Young is never talked about in the same category as Nani because somehow Nani, on his day, is world class, well he's not. He is a mercurial but inconsistent winger that scored the same amount of goals as Scott Sinclair last season.
Of course he's not, because he's not remotely as good, you look back on this thread and you can see people constantly calling Nani world class as a player when he is at his very best, which unfortunately hasn't been an awful lot in the last six months. Nani at his best is on an entirely different level to Young and you only have to compare their best games for us in order to see that.
Valencia was voted our player of the season yet his stats were pretty much equal to both Nani and Young too, you can't judge how good a footballer is based purely on stats alone.
The Sinclair thing is daft seeing as Nani was our third highest goalscorer last year despite not actually playing that much, you can't just pick a random winger from another team who had a good season and use that as a comparison.
Nani was terrible vs Liverpool, nuff said... Was rightly substituted and Scholes made our game look a lot better, playing against 10 people helps but Nani was giving the ball away with practically every touch he made, made Sterling look world class in comparison.
Valencia hardly got the ball today, not worth comparing in this match, our players couldn't find the wide players and we were shite today.
Exhibit A.
Nani was awful, rubbish, dreadful (which he was), but Valencia (who was almost as bad in the first half) just "didn't get the ball enough". Mental.
Posts that show that people are blinded by <insert whatever here> for Nani.