[groovyalbert]

Decent bench option who has become our first choice striker.

Says it all about our squad and the disastrous mismanagement the Glazers have overseen. ETH is honestly working miracles with this squad right now.

 

[Sylar]

We need martial back (for now / until end of season)
He did ok especially first half.

Needed to be subbed especially last 20.

 

[NLunited]

Had a good game. Team player looking to bring other players into play with lay offs and assists, he nearly got a couple in fact.

With more chemistry this will improve further.

His pressing was very good.

 

[Desert Eagle]

Thought he played quite well today. Did his job

 

[KiD MoYeS]

He can't run and he can't jump, but he's better than Martial. We're broke, so he'll do.

 

[NewGlory]

As expected, he is a fecking championship-level, Burnley player on transfer from Turkish league. It's not his fault, it is goddamned Glazers for loaning him instead of somebody like Felix.

He can't run and he can't jump, but he's better than Martial. We're broke, so he'll do.

WW is not even close to Martial's abilities. Unfortunately, Martial is injured all the time, so we don't really have Martial, so we absolutely needed a quality CF, but saying WW is nearly as good as Martial, when Martial is fit, is factually incorrect.

Thought he played quite well today. Did his job

Did we watch the same game? CF's "job" is to score goals. He wasn't anywhere even near a shot on goal. He didn't help defensively, he did nothing. He was probably the worst player on the pitch.

 

[Cassidy]

If only he wasn’t so slow

 

[downxandxout]

Looked good today. Won the ball plenty of times high up the pitch. Tracked back. Nice bits of link up play. Not your typical striker but will really help those around him, especially our wingers.

 

[Baneofthegame]

Did what was asked of him today.

 

[CassiusClaymore]

He can't run and he can't jump, but he's better than Martial. We're broke, so he'll do.

He's not though.

 

[RVN1991]

People who think he was shit today no absolutely nothing about number 9 hold up play.

he hasn’t been brought ito take on 3 people and ping it into the top bag.

he has been brought in to give us a central focal point via good hold up and link play.

and to make room for others via clever runs to drag players out of position.

both of which he did loads of in the first hour today.

give your heads a wobble

Don’t think he was poor at all. He pressed from the front, had sod all service from midfield and when the ball was played in to him be brought other players in to the game. He makes a good run in the second half and McTominay plays such a poor ball.
get the lad some service before you judge him in front of goal.

When you're seeing little of the ball IDK how a guy like weghorst is particularly helpful tbh, no goal threat and isn't particularly quick on the counter either, I'd rather have seen us move Rashford up top and have garnacho on the left at least at 2-2, weghorst looks more helpful as someone you throw in at teams parking the bus, don't have a problem with him starting but playing him the whole game while you're getting bombarded the last half hour or so makes no sense to me.

 

[Sammy McIlroys fan club]

His movement off the ball has helped create two goals in two games. Pulls defenders away for Rashfords shot and pulled three Palace defenders away for Fernandez's goal on Wednesday. Good link up and works hard pressing across the front line.
All in all decent for a stop gap back up player

 

[UNITED ACADEMY]

He did well imo. Imagine Martial technique and pace in this guy, would have been perfect.

 

[KiD MoYeS]

He's not though.

Honestly he is. Martial is like playing with ten men, at least Weghorst has a physical impact.

 

[NewGlory]

His movement off the ball has helped create two goals in two games. Pulls defenders away for Rashfords shot and pulled three Palace defenders away for Fernandez's goal on Wednesday. Good link up and works hard pressing across the front line.
All in all decent for a stop gap back up player

I love how United CF is now getting credit for something as unquantifiable and subjective as "movement off the ball". Not an assist, not a goal, but THAT! OK, you know what else helped? I was sending good vibes to our players from my coach, while watching the game on telly. WW's "movement" helped about as much as my positive vibes.

 

[Valencia Shin Crosses]

He can't run and he can't jump, but he's better than Martial. We're broke, so he'll do.

He's literally Martial at his worst. My god our fans man

 

[Valencia Shin Crosses]

Honestly he is. Martial is like playing with ten men, at least Weghorst has a physical impact.

What does this even mean? Did you actually watch last week when we were mauling City on the counter in the first half with a 1 legged Martial?

Weghorst doesn't even win headers, he's quite poor in the air for his size.

 

[Idxomer]

Honestly he is. Martial is like playing with ten men, at least Weghorst has a physical impact.

That's just nonsensical. Martial who hasn't been fit and basically lost most of his agility can still do things with the ball Weghorst wouldn't even dream of trying.

 

[Pickle85]

Prefer him to Martial every day of the week. It baffles me how some still retain faith in a player that's shown next to nothing for the past several seasons.

 

[sammyhol]

When you're seeing little of the ball IDK how a guy like weghorst is particularly helpful tbh, no goal threat and isn't particularly quick on the counter either, I'd rather have seen us move Rashford up top and have garnacho on the left at least at 2-2, weghorst looks more helpful as someone you throw in at teams parking the bus, don't have a problem with him starting but playing him the whole game while you're getting bombarded the last half hour or so makes no sense to me.

how do you play on the counter with no one to hold the ball up?

rashford is playing out of his skin atm.. but is crap with his back to goal.

the hold up player allows for the wide players to run in behind

 

[jeff_goldblum]

I thought he was decent on the floor and poor in the air. He's clearly nothing special, but even so you can see the benefit having even an average "proper" centre forward to play one-twos off brings.

 

[RVN1991]

Honestly he is. Martial is like playing with ten men, at least Weghorst has a physical impact.

Let's be real, we all want him to succeed here but there's a reason the guy was plying his trade at your Burnley's/Besiktas of the world. I really like his combination of size and skill set but "putting in a good shift" shouldn't be the standard of a United level center forward in these type of matches, sadly we've been so pathetic for so long it's starting to become the norm.

 

[sammyhol]

I thought he was decent on the floor and poor in the air. He's clearly nothing special, but even so you can see the benefit having even an average "proper" centre forward to play one-twos off brings.

this….

1000% this

 

[Irwin99]

Decent enough, some good touches and helping Rashford. I think he'll be a good bench option if/when Martial finally returns.

 

[Nou_Camp99]

We have a giant striker with Rashford and Antony on the wings. Neither player particularly great when it comes to crossing, Antony in particular. Seems like a waste.

A fit Martial offers us much more but he's never fit is he? Frustrating.

 

[MikeKing]

Looked decent at times, horrible at times. He'll probably not be completely useless for us but he can't be the only one running and challenging for the ball up there.

 

[Devil81]

I like him, he works his legs off.

He will get easier days where we will create chances for him.

 

[Amar__]

I am not really sure people understand what's the point of striker on the pitch if they thought that was a good performance? It seems to me that people were so convinced we need a striker who can press that they forgot that striker is supposed to do many other things that are far more important to begin with.

We were awful in transition, we couldn't keep the ball to save our lives, and if we had no Rashford we wouldn't probably see their keeper entire game.

He wasn't even winning headers, he is no threat to their goal or defenders whatsoever, and the only thing he did well was running without the ball(even though I am not sure how effective it is considering how fecking slow he is). He also can keep the ball when he has defender on his back around the half way line but he does it so slow that we can't even build up the play quickly even if he keeps the ball in those situations, and his passing after keeping those balls is generally very average.

I am not blaming him for the sake of it, just finding it ridiculous that people think that was good performance from a Manchester United striker. It was a good performance from a 3m striker though, but we wouldn't do worse if we played Mctominay there then either. Or Bruno. Or anyone else that would at least bring something else like Rashford and played Garnacho on the left.

 

[Guapa]

Did much better today after a full week of training with his teammates.

 

[Dan_F]

He’s shit. Runs around a lot, which I guess is something Martial doesn’t do, but literally every other aspect of his game is worse than Martial. Looked like we had a Burnley striker up front.

Don’t get me wrong, we needed him. But he’s not good.

 

[SirScholes]

If him and rashford can figure out or once they do, i can see it being very handy

 

[Silas]

He can't run and he can't jump, but he's better than Martial. We're broke, so he'll do.

Better at what?

 

[Ali Dia]

If only he wasn’t so slow

He is slow and quite poor in the air. I think he will get his debut goal though in the next two games.

 

[IrishRedDevil]

There was people who wanted us to sign him permanently before he had even kicked a ball.

 

[KiD MoYeS]

Martial FC is still far too alive.

 

[kundalini]

I'm astonished he stayed on the pitch until the end. In the first half he was occasionally involved in the build-up though some of his passes slowed down attacks. He seemed to be completely irrelevant in the 2nd half. Gave the ball away right at the start of the 2nd half when it should have been a simple pass to Rashford.

I just can't understand how we can be starting Weghorst yet leaving Garnacho on the bench. I know that would mean Rashford having to play centrally which isn't ideal.

 

[Bobski]

If you don't think RvN wasn't brilliant at hold up play then it's you that needs to watch again

I think all the guys he menitoned were better in that aspect. Would also say Andy Cole did a better job of linking with those around in build up, RVN used to take 5/6/7 touches to get the ball under control and move it, while with Cole he always tried to play one or two touch. His improvement in general play over the course of his Utd career was incredibly impressive.

 

[phelans shorts]

Played well, was shattered after 70 and Garnacho should have come on but oh well.

 

[Tiber]

Has about as much chance of scoring as a defender, but thought he played more of a role than the last game

 

[Zlatan 7]

Did ok for his second match in such a high intensity game j thought, don’t get any service to be a goal threat but worked hard and had a few nice touches laid off.

still seems a bit timid which is understandable