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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 49
- Goals
- 17
- Assists
- 11
- Yellow cards
- 4
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Another good game from the cold fish. I wasn't expecting much from him this season but in the space of 10 days he has become nearly a vital member of the team.
You need to put that number in perspective out of 13 unsuccessful passes 7 are headers, yesterday Rooney refused to play close to Martial when the latter was in an aerial dual.
No, please stop, Rooney has been great and people have agenda while Martial has been downright dreadful. Link up.
Lone front men do tend to have poor pass completion rates. Remember seeing Drogba's stats and being surprised at how low it was. Do they really count headers then? That seems a bit silly really.
LvG specifically praised his holdup ability. Its not outlandish to suggest he linked play well.
He did well, but some of his passes are too soft or played with too much nonchalance.
Of course they count headers. Passing completion is such a pointless statistic for a forward but in days of post-Moneyball and the gazillion of Opta stats it's inevitable that people would rather use Excel than their eyes to assess footballer hence nonsense like 'Rooney's link up has been good' because numbers specifically show that he's had 84.4214215125124% pass completion which is 2.52132151243125% over the average and 1.25135315523% better than Messi and converts to 0.41241251265124% better chance of winning the game and 0.021515124345% better chance to win trophy. In total Rooney's productivity has been estimated at $4.412412512million.
This is correct, but that will come. Think he held the ball up very well, and attempted to turn and keep the ball going forward too.
Didn't always execute the pass correctly, but the signs are very promising.
I thought his hold up play was very good. A wee bit sloppy with his passing and touch in the first half but got better and better as the game went on. His passing stats will be messed up by all the headers he won cleanly, he generally found his team-mate with the ball on the ground though.
Yeah I'd rather go with your unbiased and perfect opinion Joe Bloggs.
Would probably be better if you watched football and form yours. Works better than putting numbers in Excel and using formulas to judge players performance.
I love that he has a knack for getting past players with a simple touch or two. I read multiple accounts of people saying how Martial makes things look easy and I definately see what they mean.
As with all things the answer is to do both. Evaluate for yourself first and foremost and then stack it up against the statistics and see how it holds. The mind can be tricked very easily so it's always good to question yourself and stats are a great resource for that. I've generally been impressed with Martial's hold up play and ability to bring others into the game, he does have to work on weighting his passes a bit but overall still very promising in that regard.
I noticed this when I was watching and was going to post it here! But yeah, I agree with everything you said.
He has the composure of a seasoned, veteran striker. And his hold-up play as well as his one-touch passing is brilliant - not to mention his ice cold composure in front of goal. His pace and dribbling also adds a lot to our attack and the speed in which we transition moving up the field - i.e. he links up very well with Depay.
The kid looks like the real deal.
The kid looks like the real deal.
Annoying that we didn't get this done sooner. I think those golden chances Rooney had against Swansea would've been slotted away by Martial.
De Gea in net and Martial up front all season and we could be top of the league! Maybe.
An extra point against Swansea is pretty much a given seeing as De Gea would have likely conceded neither of these goals and I reckon Martial would have been able to put one past Newcastle.
It's all going too good to be true really. There will surely be a run of games where he barely even gets a shot on target. But as so many have said, we need to be patient when that time comes.
In 50 minutes at St Mary's, Anthony Martial scored more away league goals than Wayne Rooney has managed since March 2014. He's played 1,753 fewer minutes.
Has Wenger done his nearly signed him speech yet?
I worry about this too but I guess we only live for the moment so it doesn't really help to overthink stuff. What we need is the rest of our attack stepping up because surely a time will come when he can't conjure up these moments of brilliance.
Yeah for sure. There will very likely come a time where he won't contribute much and will drift in and out of games. But that happens with all strikers, especially ones who are teenagers.
I can't wait to see him in a relatively easier game at home against Sunderland, where we will attack more. All the game's he's played so far have been physical and tough.
I can't believe how easily he's slotted in, and how much of a difference a relatively unknown 19 year old has made is such a short period of time.
I can't believe how easily he's slotted in, and how much of a difference a relatively unknown 19 year old has made is such a short period of time.
Heh, this "winger type" bloke already has more goals this season than any of his strikers
I keep reading that Martial is destined to go on a long spell of poor form, just because he's 19. I personally don't buy it. Sure, he's not going to score every game, but his strength, movement and speed isn't suddenly going to disappear. I think he has all of the attributes to remain a consistent threat to Premier League defenders.
I checked the odds on him being YPOTY last night, and he wasn't listed with any bookie. Now he's one of the favourites;
http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/premier-league/pfa-young-player-of-the-year
http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/premier-league/pfa-young-player-of-the-year
That seems well worth a few quid at 9/1 for any betting men. Don't let EssexRob see it, he'll curse him.
Threw £20 on it. Damn you.
Actually think it's a decent enough punt compared to other long shot bets.
Right on cue. Wenger has said he had been keeping tabs on Martial since he was a kid but they didn't sign him because they have wingers like Walcott and Oxlade-Chamberlain, Sanchez and Campbell.
I thought he did it well for a young player starting his first PL game. Sure there were some mistakes, either under hit passes or holding on to long, but in the context of his age and getting used to the league there were a lot more positives in that aspect of his game than negatives for me.
He's probably crying into his evian that he didn't snap him up. I keep thinking back to what Paul Merson said on Soccer Saturday "Arsene Wenger knows the French market better than anyone he doesn't think this kid is worth the money" and it brings a smile to my face.
Despite his most recent French signings being Giroud, Sanogo and Debuchy and the recent ones from Ligue 1 being Sanogo and Ospina. Going a further few years back there's been the hit successes Gervinho and Chamakh. But yeh he knows the French market better than anyone..
There's also Sanson, Lecomte, Imbula, Digne, Amavi, Mendy, Umtiti, Ntep and Tolisso to consider. Ridiculous really. Whether they actually win something is a different matter, but they should with that amount of talent in the future.
Weird, if he really believes that. He always looked more like a striker IMO and his performances suffered out wide.
Its kinda crazy that the clean sheets have dried up since DDG's return, or proper since Swansea.
While I agree with the sentiment, it was actually, to be fair to the Mail, the Mirror that called him a waste of money.Cool as ice! Just the Cf we need. Rooney ain't going to get a sniff at no.9 with him now. He really shows all the attributes of what we want from a striker. His hold up play is so composed, loved to run at defenders and is not afraid to take a shot when needed. Can't believe we have him as our CF.
Up yours Daily Mail!!!
I'd still go with Luke Shaw, but Martial has done as well as he could have in the time he has been here.
The defence probably play at a worse level, knowing De Gea will save their arses 9 times out of 10.
I would think most top clubs have an extensive enough scouting network to keep tabs on most stand out youngsters or even youngsters with half decent potential. Wenger just seem to like stating it more than others.
He's done so well, he's exceeded any sort of reasonable hope I had. I just hope when things will naturally more difficult, he won't criticized too much (like it is the case with Memphis on the caf).
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