He came on and made a difference, not much more you can say. The perfect role for Fellaini IMO.
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OK fair enough.
Personally, even with a new manager I'd want to keep him, while we clean up useless dead wood we have in the squad.
I like him more than Matic in the CDM role.
I never argued that Fella should be a starter anyhow, i want to emphasise that he's just as much an appreciated quality player to us in the role of inpact sub. We simply don't require him in 80% of our games because were just going to roll over the opposition, it's when the going gets tough that we often need him and that he proves that he's still very valuable to us. So he always gets a spot in the NT regardless and played a fair amount of minutes against the stronger opposition in the WC. And i would say he's one of our top 10 best players despite usually not starting.
Gennerally speaking our style is possesion with somewhat more direct technical play on the counter and relying of flair, dribbling and technique when pressing. Because we are a top team we usually play against much weaker teams with an attacking style that is just too much to handle. But this style doesn't always work out especially if a team has many players that have the specialty's to counter it. The thing with Fella is that it typicly creates such a difference in tactics on the field that the opposition is simply not preppared for it if they had setup specificly to counter our technical players. It's the kinda "now try to deal with this" thing, lest to speak that succesfull defending teams are often properly tired at the end of the game due to all our runners to have it hard with such physicallity.
Thats not our experience with Fellaini because we typicly play a dominant possesion game but bring in Fellaini when dominant possesion
fails to create the goals. AKA domminating possesion from the mid is not the issue for us then, we simply need added danger of a different nature in the box.
Seeing how many times he saved united like that you ought to give him credit for the points he gains as thus and perhaps that really should weigh in far more heavily as how Fellaini is to be regarded regardless of perhaps not being a starter.
Fellaini was a starter against Brazil though (i mean, technical Brazil) and was asked to handle Neymar which he did beautifully. Even as a starter he can be very usefull and it didn't lead to such a loss of technicallity in the mid that it cost us. I mean it's not like Belgium didn't want to win the WC hard enough that it would take stupid risks in it's setup and the trust we put in Fellaini at that top level pay's off with him putting one of the worlds most reknown attackers in his pocket. But maybe people want to use a different measuring stick here.
To be fair the belgium case imho shows that Fellaini's technical short commings should not be regarded as an issue when there is plenty of technical quality in the team to make up for it,indeed Fella is very usefull when you really have been orienting a bit too much to technical play and you want to put in some direct play specialist to cause some headache's.
Heck we left Naingollan a home when we went to Russia, if you had asked me then if i would have taken Naingollan over Fella i would have said "no way". No way you leave our beloved plan B supreme at home. We still need him. I would miss him when he's gone and he's aging somewhat but it might not be much an issue for him given the amount of minutes he eventually plays and that pace was never his key thing.
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He’s currently our best player. I’ve never been a fan of his but you can’t deny he really puts in the effort and has desire to win, he’s very effective at what he does.
What is it he does exactly?
Its not protecting the area in front of defence. And thats been our weakness defensively this season
He actually is one of our most important players, which sums up just what a mess our team is.
What he does? Helping the defense (that gave away 6 goals in 2 matches before Fellaini was brought into the team), creating chances to his teammates through his chest control and head (our two goals against Watford), and actually scoring vital goals. He's that player that can be moved from a very deep role (like third CB) to a very advanced role (2nd striker) in an instant. Not many players can perform both of these tasks as well as he does. Granted, this won't always work, but there is no system that always works.
He indeed is. He's my Player of the Month. Throughout this month he has been either MOTM or MOTM contender.
Read what @ManUtd1999 put under your reply it sums it up perfectly. He’s actually a very important player for us right now apart from De Gea who is obviously our best player fellaini is our best outfield player right now.
He's helping the defense with headed clearances, though Smalling already did that well. But this role he's being asked to perform is leaving us exposed on the edge of our box, because he drops into CB vacating the area a DM helps protect the defense. We didnt concede goals in open play last season without him/someone doing this. We're worse than we were last season doing this.
I tend to agree tbh
Always giving 100% for the team. Real warrior.
Mourinho should build the team around him. He fits the only attacking tactic that Mourinho knows to a tee. Perhaps he'll do better than Lukaku as a target man CF?
Been in good form thus far.
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Seen Fellaini get pissed off on more then one occasion.
There are far more talented players then him messing up, wasting chance because their not trying. At least Fellaini is putting in the effort, probably only one right now
There are far more talented players then him messing up, wasting chance because their not trying. At least Fellaini is putting in the effort, probably only one right now
He was useless though apart from when we were hoofing it near the end. I get he tries but this is a bad team playing direct football so he is much more comfortable.
I think this needs to stop. He looked good under LVG during both seasons playing possession football, he's been one of our most consistent performers under Jose no matter how we've played and he featured in a very good Belgium side this summer.
He's actually a good, tidy footballer.with the added bonus of being able to play in almost any system, which you can't say about some of our stars.
I keep seeing comments like this these days. Fellaini is doing fine but of course he isnt the only one trying. Shaw, Smalling and De Gea are working hard too. The most annoying thing about Fellaini are the posters who feel the need to make out he is a one man team when he has a decent performance.
Nah mate, seen plenty of post of yours that have agenda in them. Trying to put word in my mouth, as if i said it a one man team
. Clown... or the posters who have a hard time saying something positive about him, even when he does well.
Seen many united teams playing bad but managed to put up a fight and grind a result through effort. These just get rolled over by not putting in the basic effort
You put the words, I'm not sure about in your mouth, but you expressed them from somewhere. You said hes probably the only one trying. He's not.Nah mate, seen plenty of post of yours that have agenda in them. Trying to put word in my mouth, as if i said it a one man team
But you are trying.
Fellaini spent most of the match playing as a normal central midfielder - the role he is extremely average at. Give him a specific role, whether offensive or defensive, and he's fine. He should have been playing the position McTominay was in (and playing more central like he has been lately to help deal with Arnautovic) with either Fred or Pereira in the midfield. That was blatantly obvious before the match started, and it was equally obvious throughout the entire match.
I don't blame him for it because it's not his fault he was used wrong, but he was poor today.
I don't blame him for it because it's not his fault he was used wrong, but he was poor today.
Fellaini cycle:
- comes in couple of games as a super sub,
- scores after few games(his goalscoring record is far from great, even though many would make you think he scores every time he comes on even though he scores about one goal per season)
- everyone lauds him as a hero saying he should be starting.
- Starts next game, we usually put terrible display with people defending him that he was being played out of position(despite no one actually knowing his best position)
- people start mentioning Moyes and LvG for some reason, whether to defend Fellaini or criticise him
- back on the bench.
Rinse and repeat.
- comes in couple of games as a super sub,
- scores after few games(his goalscoring record is far from great, even though many would make you think he scores every time he comes on even though he scores about one goal per season)
- everyone lauds him as a hero saying he should be starting.
- Starts next game, we usually put terrible display with people defending him that he was being played out of position(despite no one actually knowing his best position)
- people start mentioning Moyes and LvG for some reason, whether to defend Fellaini or criticise him
- back on the bench.
Rinse and repeat.
Yep, could not have put it any better.
Simple fact is if we want to play progressive, intricate, pass and move football it is NEVER ever gonna happen with Fellaini still playing games for us.
I don't like seeing his name on the team sheet and never have done but at this point he's one of our most consistent players, especially in comparison to the rest of the midfield. What a mess.
Why do his decent patches of form usually coincide with us playing like shit? He shouldn't be a starter at this club in general.
Man Utd 0:0 Valencia
His 6th season and not only is he still somehow at the club but he's still being played as a box to box midfielder. How he lasted the whole game today is beyond me. Useless.
He's absolutely horrendous at football. The symbol of why we are where we are. Please send him back to some crap club like Everton or something.
Does anyone know what he actually does for us? Completely anonymous. Just because he's big doesn't make him a DM, you need to have some decent flexibility and ability on the ball for that.
I like him as a a second striker option, but in midfield he's useless. The fact that he still plays there epitomises everything wrong with the post Fergie area. I think SAF would shipped Moyes' two signings, Fellaini and Mata, 3 season ago if he were still here.
I like him as a a second striker option, but in midfield he's useless. The fact that he still plays there epitomises everything wrong with the post Fergie area. I think SAF would shipped Moyes' two signings, Fellaini and Mata, 3 season ago if he were still here.
He's so desperately limited, is he really just on the pitch for 90 odd minutes just in case we have to lump it up to him? I've never particularly disliked the bloke but he shouldn't be starting for us, reflects very poorly on us that we've essentially signed a £50m bench warmer who can't even get in the team ahead of Fellaini.
Big Fellaini fan but was poor today.
Fellaini can do a job in certain games. But lets be realistic. If Fellaini is a starting midfielder in your team then you can forget about winning a major trophy. He's absolutely nowhere close to being good enough and he wouldn't get a look in at a decent club.
I like him and he seems to be a nice lad but we have to say it how it is.
I like him and he seems to be a nice lad but we have to say it how it is.
Sorry Felli but that was one of the most pointless performances I've ever seen. Did feck all and was constantly the wrong side of the ball when defending leading to all their attacks.
He's normally quite good at filling specific roles. Whether it's offensively or defensively, if you need something done, an opposition player looked after, or a weakness protected - he's your man.
But he should never be played as your general run-of-the-mill central midfielder. He simply brings nothing to the role and it just makes it extremely difficult for our midfield to get any kind of control.
Can't string two decent passes together.
Useless but because he is our plan B we have to keep him on, would have been much more useful coming on as an impact player. The midfield aren’t a very good combination, will work every so often but not week in week out.
Champions League requires just a little bit more than that.
It's laughable that he plays from the start.
It's laughable that he plays from the start.
Atrocious footballer, done ok this season but he is he mascot of out shit football in recent years, if the next manager dumps him immediately he will have my loyalty for life.
We need the option of Fellaini gone, and for our plan b to be a plan rather than just hoof and hope.
We need the option of Fellaini gone, and for our plan b to be a plan rather than just hoof and hope.
What does he offer aside from a moderate aerial threat?
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