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Treble

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Wow....must have seen a different game then. Thought he did fine, as usual some bad passing from him but very much at the centre of what we created. Want him to play deep, but only if we can have someone like Rashford alongside him.
Because you are in love with him. He was crap.
 

#07

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Shrinking. Got plenty of the ball near the edge of the box. Refused to even try shooting. Where's the player who scored from range at Bournemouth? He said he'd be the god of Manchester. Looking like a false idol right now.
 

Hugh Jass

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He wasnt great but wasnt terrible either.

Like the chelsea game, the match plan is out the window with that flukey goal.
 

JackXX

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Meh. He's a good player but when you bring in someone on their last legs they need to be an instant hit. Would rather be developing Rashford and Martial as strikers.

Good start but he's becoming a pretty underwhelming signing.
 

Eddy_JukeZ

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I thought he was great vs Burnley(except for his crap finishing ofc).

tumescent today though. Really just poor all-around.
 

Adam-Utd

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Looked more interested in fighting than scoring. Then again our whole attack don't look like they want too anyway.

Starting to get annoyed with him now really.
 

OldTrevil

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He's in terrible form no question, what's more frustrating is he will definitely start on Sunday as he has no internationals. Lets hope he will use the time off to refocus and be up for it after the break.
 

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His legs have gone. I know pace is overrated at times. But, in the modern age of football when collective defending has become so advanced, a team needs a center forward with clever movement and pace. Height & strength are not enough
 

Devil81

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Had enough, I'd want him benched if we had a capable replacement. Instead we've got a kid and a player in equal decline.
 

kouroux

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Please oh please just stop taking long range FKs as if you could blast the ball into the top corner. I don't know if it's because he is old or something but his shoots as powerfully as a 10 year old.
 

Sylar

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That no look pass was the one that pissed me off the most. It was so unneeded it just killed a chance for an equaliser.
 

manunajted

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Remember people, this is a player who is meant to be one of the best strikers in the world.......
Tbf, this is probably the worst team by quite a margin, he has played for - Apart from Malmo and Ajax.

But yeah he is not playing to his standard, very bummed about his performance the last 7-8 games.
 
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wr8_utd

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Needs to be dropped and have Rashford play up top. He and Rooney can alternate to be backups.
 

VorZakone

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What's the point of praising him for throwing a 'death stare' at Skrtel? I saw this a few times in the match thread. Skrtel went home with a 2-1 win, Zlatan did not.
 

m1y2

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Think we would actually be better off with Rashford up top, we have pretty creative midfielders in Herrera, Mata, Pogba who can all play a through ball and Zlatan will never give at the end of those passes, his hold up play was bang average except maybe the last city game... feel a bit for him because I started to like him but if he scored all those chances he missed this year, it would have been much better. Right now he's playing like very poor man's Graziano Pelle...

the movement up front is shocking with him and our fat shrek
 

quethenoo

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Please stop taking ridiculous free kicks and hitting them into the wall. Also stop dropping into midfield when its already congested and stay the feck up top where we need you!
 

Tiber

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It's Zlatan! Everything Zlatan does gets worshipped by some on here.
If he picked his nose some would praise his distribution

Zlatan can still play a role, but we are crying out for pace upfront.

I was never convinced that giving a 35 year old a bucket load of cash was a smart long term move. Now that he isnt even socring goals (how many games is it now? 7? 8?) It looks like an awful decision


Rashford and Martial are both being played out of position so we can play a short term 'fix' who cant get a goal. Crazy.
 

Acole9

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He did nothing when he come on apart from argue with Kjaer and Skrtel.
 

AndyJ1985

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Losing my patience with the slow lumbering oaf. If we had pacey wingers with a good cross creating chance after chance for him then he might be useful. But in our current team we'd be better off with Martial or Rashford up front running at defenders. Ibrahimovic is just another slow static player in a slow static team.
 

Yagami

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To say that performance was god awful is an understatement. Absolutely useless. Again. I think he gave the ball away pretty much everytime he had it.

I would've had Rashford and Martial ahead of him at the start of the season with him as back-up, and I want that now more than ever. He doesn't deserve to play.

I saw a lot of these performances for PSG so, if our scouting system is to be relied upon, they surely should have too, thus knowing we wouldn't be able to rely on him as much as we are doing this season. It's baffling.
 

stevoc

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Please stop taking ridiculous free kicks and hitting them into the wall. Also stop dropping into midfield when its already congested and stay the feck up top where we need you!
Yeah his free kicks are absolutely wank, no idea why he's still on them when out of about 15-20 this season very few have even threatened to trouble the keeper.
 
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