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Think he's in the Welbeck mold. Probably not quite good enough but offers something different to the team that we don't have at the moment making him very useful. His movement and quick passing is exactly what we need.
It was a moment of brilliance, but he was anonymous for the rest of the game.
A shame I have to resort to this but his replacement didn't light the pitch up either. If United had played poorly credit would have been given to Chelsea, wonder why we are all choosing to ignore he and Cesar(name a better FB in the league) nullified eachother. Even with that he managed to free himself up and bag a goal.
Great goal, happy for Jesse.
Saying that, I can't ever see him being more than a decent squad player for us in the future, but it's nice to have him in the team.
Saying that, I can't ever see him being more than a decent squad player for us in the future, but it's nice to have him in the team.
You're obsessed to respond to my comments or what?
Martial certainly didnt have have the best of games. Ivanovic was on top of him, but yeah everybody loves Anthony Martial so ppl forgive him easily. And Lingard scored despite being quite poor, how hard is it to understand that?
he has what we are desperate for at the moment which is a bit of pace, and legs to stretch the opposition. Clearly doing more than Memphis so credit to him for keeping a summer signing out
Earlier, I thought he was really good, against City, Watford etc. He's now been quite anonymous, for a while, but popping up with some very important goals.
I want to say he's average, but there's something I like about the guy. I'd say he's a better version of Ashley Young.
I want to say he's average, but there's something I like about the guy. I'd say he's a better version of Ashley Young.
He's not better than Ashley Young in my opinion, not yet anyway.
Young has proven to be a very useful player for us over the last couple of years.
Coming into this thread is always so disappointing. Somebody has decided early doors that Lingard is "limited"....whatever that is supposed to mean and now that has to be either the stick to beat him with or the caveat when he does well.
He is still relatively young and in the middle of his first season. He has good movement, a bit of pace, really solid technique as you'd expect from one of our youth products and he is chipping in with goals and assists. Wtf do some of you want? Why can't we enjoy watching one of our own grow and develop? Not one of us can say he's limited because we can't see in to the future and how he'll progress. Let's not compare him to any of the greats because then he will look limited. He's only at the start of his journey. Let's see at the end of it....
He is still relatively young and in the middle of his first season. He has good movement, a bit of pace, really solid technique as you'd expect from one of our youth products and he is chipping in with goals and assists. Wtf do some of you want? Why can't we enjoy watching one of our own grow and develop? Not one of us can say he's limited because we can't see in to the future and how he'll progress. Let's not compare him to any of the greats because then he will look limited. He's only at the start of his journey. Let's see at the end of it....
I think he's pretty average, but I don't think he's a wide player. He's a finisher not a creator.
He's a poor mans Thomas Muller.
He's a poor mans Thomas Muller.
Fantastic goal, he is a great player, very smart and very confident, he will only get better.
I think we need to be patient regarding performances. He's never struck me as a typical winger because basically he isn't. He's better centrally I think. He's a good runner with the ball and has pretty good end product. People need to stop judging so quickly. What is positive is the end product - we just need to get him more involved. Having said that much of our play goes through Martial on the other side so he won't be dominating on the wing anyway as we'll always favor Martials side.
There are quite a few posts mentioning that he has pace. Don't see it myself. For a winger/wide player he is not quick. Maybe he just seems quick after watching Mata on the right for most of the season.
Credit where it's due, I gave him shit before for missing some chances in earlier matches. His nerves have settled and he's showcasing some excellent finishing.
Certainly deserves a place in the squad but we need to invest in that right wing position.
Certainly deserves a place in the squad but we need to invest in that right wing position.
He's quick across the floor, has decent feet, good movement and good technique but he doesn't possess great dribbling/isolation ability nor is he in a team that can afford those situations (i.e you'll have to be immensely gifted like Martial because we get shut down too easily due our slow ball movement). Basically if he was running onto a ball off a defender's shoulder he would absolutely be favourite in the majority of situations and if it was shoulder to shoulder he would do alright but probably not get past that defender if they have a bit of pace too i.e he would be able to recycle possession (but at least be further up the field).
In fairness if we get our business done right in the summer neither would be starting for us next season.
Fantastic finish.
Great player, really though?
Yeah I agree with the Ashley Young comparison, I said it at the start of the season that Young is his ceiling and that isn't a bad level to aspire to. The people saying he is 'our Pedro' is stretching things mind..
The Pedro comparison is just really lazy to be honest. This is a guy who has won it all with Barca and scored a ridiculous amount of goals for them, especially given that he was never really a starter. Pedro has flopped badly at Chelsea but he was an extremely effective player for Barcelona. I get what people are trying to say, but I just don't agree with the comparison. Lingard to us, is what Joel Campell currently is to Arsenal.
Lingrad, before his goal yesterday, was once again extremely average and pretty much a passenger in the game. He's done well for himself, all things considered, but he's just such a painfully average player.
I hate to have to agree with that, given his great goal bit it's true!
When he can score bread and butter goals instead of missing sitters, take players on regularly and beat them then I might see him as a Utd player but sadly he falls short. Hope I'm proved wrong though
He doesn't have enough pace or strength to beat a man on the wing which is the crucial point. He is one of those players that doesn't really have a position nailed down. I suppose he is only effective a wide forward in a front three which is quite specific.
I think we would get a decent fee for him and think selling him would be the best idea.
Bad first half, excellent second half.
People always have this idea that everything will be sorted "next summer", which has never been the case.There are always signings that not turn out to be that good, and there are always players at the club that suddenly raise their games to the next level.
Said it in the match day thread, but it reminded me a lot of this for some reason :
Nani
As for Lingard, fantastic goal and he's a consistent goal threat but his overall play during the game simply is non existent. He's just not a very good winger tbh. Would be interesting to see him being played upfront though.
You would hand on heart say he had an excellent second half? Bar his goal, he was once again pretty anonymous. If you would honestly call that second half an "excellent" performance, then feck me. Each to their own, though.
Well, it was an improvement. The goal was excellent.
I would say he could be a decent squad player for us. Our attack is what it is though, thus he starts. I mean, he's been better than Memphis.
This, essentially.
First thing I thought as well.Nani
As for Lingard: He isn't and will never be an archetypal winger, he is more of a link man for creating triangles and moving off the ball.
Our right side is better with him in the team than with Mata playing the role, whilst Mata may be a technically better player, and we see a lot more play down that flank than we do when he isn't present (our right has been a weakness all season). He currently makes for a better team and offers a genuine goal threat largely lacking outside of Martial and Rooney.
An improvement aye, notwithstanding the fact that he was awful in the first half. The goal was fantastic but his overall play was still poor, imo.
I'd play anyone on the right ahead of Mata. For me Mata on the right is utterly wasted, never liked him in that position.
Can't agree. Young has been completely average since the first half of 11/12.
Brilliantly taken goal yesterday, really happy for him.
LVG is managing to make the most of his attributes. He's turning out to be a Darren Fletcher type player - a solid but unspectacular (though his goal yesterday certainly was!) squad player that can turn out to be very important for us in big games.
LVG is managing to make the most of his attributes. He's turning out to be a Darren Fletcher type player - a solid but unspectacular (though his goal yesterday certainly was!) squad player that can turn out to be very important for us in big games.
If you keep stating things I disagree with I shall respond. Martial was our biggest attacking outlet yesterday. Lingard was poor apart from the goal.
Couldn't agree more although there are many players around that are better than Lingard for that position so we need to buy one!
As I've said before, he is better on the left than on the right. He's a decent player.
He can get into great positions and is a goal threat.
He can get into great positions and is a goal threat.
He created very good chance for himself in the opening minutes, but everyone was really good in the first 20 minutes, apart that he lost quite a few balls as he was trying to go past Ivanovic, didnt happen a single time for the rest of the game, he was also absolutely invisible second half, not sure what you're talking about.. he might rip another defender next game but they prepared for him and deleted him from the game, they were not able to mark Lingard when he scored and almost won us game though..
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