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I think that Shaw could be an excellent wingback if he had more confidence in his obvious ability to leave people for dead.
Completely agree that it changed the game but let's be honest, that has as much to do with Blackett being a really awful LB. He was scared to even go beyond di María and looked incredibly timid on the ball.
Unfortunately people see his frame and start saying the lazy rhetoric that he's fat, or has lack of pace like this:
Partly that, as well as partly the fact that Blackett and Di Maria had no communication and rhythm together, whereas Shaw and Young were much more effective, as we are Blind and Young.
I remember that, what an absurd comment.
Indeed, everyone was grill Shaw about going forward when he played with Di Maria when in truth he used ignore his overlap runs 95% of the time.
The amount of times he was free in space only for Di Maria to ignore him was annoying as feck. One of Youngs best features is how well he links with the full back, be it Blind, Shaw, or formerly Evra.
Really? I haven't been watching him that closely but I could have sworn everyone's been going on about how he's one of the most solid defenders in the league this season? I've always had him down as a brilliant defender, particularly against pace and strength, which was part of what was so pleasing about the way Shaw tore past him.
Yeah, it's literally been the opposite of what that poster said. He's extremely solid defensively, and never tends to have a problem against pace as his positioning is great and once he gets his body in between he goes down very easily for a routine free kick. I think Shaw was just simply TOO fast for him, once he got going there was nothing that Ivanovic could do. Also, Shaw's first touch is quality - he often brings it across the defender meaning he's in complete control (Ivanovic's yellow card yesterday)
Ok, thought so cheers. Yep, he's got an incredibly delicate touch when running at pace. The two touches which took him clean round Ivanovic and forced a foul in the second half were superb. And he's the perfect build to be a running fullback in the modern mould - pacy but with a low centre of gravity (so good acceleration and balance), powerful but compact, so it's hard to knock him off course when he's running but he's not clumsy or top heavy.
Basically this, he's mint! Easily one of our players that I'm most excited about.
Bang on.
To be fair he always got huge praise on the Caf for his defending, it was his going forward people used criticize which I don't agree with. It was more so Di Maria ignoring his over lapping and forward runs.
I was about to say the same. And there were numerous games earlier in the season where he didn't offer much going forward - there's no getting around that. However in hindsight I think this was because of his poor partnership with di Maria (aka di Maria's greed on the ball) and the 352 not suiting him.
Wrong. I've obviously watched every second of every match we've played this season.
Are you serious? I was looking at his performance again, he provided Rooney with that only good chance, he played a good pass to Falcao, he cut back for Mata, he put in crosses for Fellaini to pass on to Rooney. That's good decision making to me.
I remember the Rooney chance but don't really remember those other moments you mentioned. In the second half he could have provided Falcao with a tap in but instead cut it back to Rooney for no reason.
Perfectly put Djemba
it doesn't work on football manager... every fecking time i praise a player publicly they react negatively to it. since i learned my listen i only berate my players publicly - never, ever praise them.
