Other than his chance I thought he did ok. His hold up play was decent and linked up well with Bruno and Dalot
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- Appearances
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- Goals
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- Assists
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- Yellow cards
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Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) discuss United's fantastic win away against Athletic Club in the semi-final of the Europa League.
They also pick out the positives of United's 4-3 loss away at Brentford, and Nik reviews a day out at Old Trafford watching Manchester United Women qualify for the Champions League.
Thought he was better today, but in an ideal world he'd be second choice.
Really wish we'd gone for Toney in the Summer over Zirkzee.
Really wish we'd gone for Toney in the Summer over Zirkzee.
He was a weak link all game. Poor when he was in front of goal and didn't do an awful lot to hold the ball up.
Absolutely.
Given that we have spent so much money, we should've spent on top quality strikers who are in their prime.
At least that way, we'd get goals and goals win games and push us up the table.
We are not a club who should be developing players while we are near the bottom of the league - we simply don't have that luxury.
We did develop CR7, but this was at a time when we had world class players around him and we were top of the league.
He was good today
Seems a pretty fair assessment.
He completed 7 passes all game. He touched the ball 18 times and lost it 8. Won 3/9 duels. His movement and the runs he makes (and doesn't make) consistently show a player with rock bottom footballing IQ.
I honestly don't see how people think he was anywhere even approaching good today.
If we sign a young striker then they need to be similar to Rooney type level.
He's just an average workhorse
I like Hoijlund always puts in full effort and tries his best, but he needs to start scoring if he wants a career here.
He's never in the right position to score. He just doesn't have the intinct.
He will come good.
I like him and we've handled his introduction to the team terribly. As we do. Get a another No 9 in and make him the backup.
But he's looking a bit heavy to me.
But he's looking a bit heavy to me.
Well, almost everyone by now. I used to be slaughtered for saying he wasn’t ready, and might never be, back when we signed him.
In Licha's pass, he was, he hold himself to not get offside, he made a diagonal and "created the pass", he arrived in time and ontrol it well, he finished it badly while Allison gave him no time to make it at least a challenge.
So Yes, he was in the right position and make a very good move in that ocassion to the very least.
The worse thing was many of his controls or how he struggles with his back towards the net to hold it.
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Loan.
He was a lot better than against Newcastle but even as one of his biggest fans I admit he was one of our weakest performers today. Some of it is down to luck and no doubt he is low on confidence right now but he remains very much a work in progress. If he can backup a senior striker for the next couple of seasons he can develop into the player we hope he can be but it is not doing us or him any good having him as our main striker right now.
We put in a very strong performance today, putting pressure on a great team, creating chances, and at times really controlling the game at Anfield. His teammates in attack played well, and it was a solid team effort, so we can't blame his team-mates for not creating anything for him. However, the fact that fans on here and platforms like Goal and MEN gave him the lowest ratings of all our players says a lot about his current form and qualities. He won't develop if we keep playing him in a league he isn't ready for.
Thank you. He was below average today. He runs and put the effort, but he isn’t up to the standard required yet. He isn’t great with his back to goal, can’t hold the ball well for a big guy, and should do better in front of goal.
Anyone saying he was good today has accepted mediocrity.
I don't think i have ever seen a Manutd striker be bullied by CBs. Forget the likes of Rooney, Ruud, Saha, Tevez, Zlatan, Ronaldo, Rvp, Martial etc, Who could physically and technically all were different class as compared to him. The others strikers like Welbeck, Owen, Chicharito etc their timings of runs, knack of getting end of chances, finishing was all class, he looks subpar as compared to the later ones as well. He has too many flaws and not much going for him, hard to see him being capable of playing as a first choice for any top team.
We’re one and a half seasons in and it just seems too much too soon for the guy. Worked hard today but just didn’t influence the game enough and should have scored that early chance, or at least have had a better shot.
Not writing him off but I can’t help but feel he should have developed elsewhere before we signed him.
Not writing him off but I can’t help but feel he should have developed elsewhere before we signed him.
Not good enough to be 10th choice striker in a proper Man Utd team.
So yeah one time when he didn't end up scoring. I've been watching him as have we all for 18 months now. He continally arrives too early or late to get on the end of a pass/cross to score. He can work on it but all the great strikers have an instinct for it.
Our major problem in selling players is that we regulary waited too long.
I think that we need to sell him because he is not good enough and never will be. Maximum what he can be here in future is squad player. And even that is a big if. So, selling him next summer will mean that we can get lots of money back. More he stays, his value will drop.
I just wanted to be fair, because in today's game he actually put himself in great positions a couple of times, creating passes, it's his overall set of skills combine with his urge to succeed what betrayed him.
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He wouldn't be first choice striker for ANY team in the Premier league nevermind us.
If you cannot see what he creates with his movement I cant help you understand. He created Amads goal. Cheer up
What do you all think?
Every other striker does the near post run except him
This is more on Bruno, he either shoots or passes across the goal mouth.
That was my first thought when it happened.
This is how "no service" myth started. Guy makes a wrong move every time and players who make a pass take a blame for shit pass.
Edit: i just noticed that "snowflake obsessed". Whoever did that, nice job.
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There is a reason he has the least shots on goal of all the main strikers in the league, to only blame his team-mates doesn't hold water.
He has decent movement and works hard but he needs to be an understudy to a more experienced player. His chance today shows a player low on confidence and experience. You could see he didn't know what to do so just hit it blindly at Alisson.
No his movement is his worst attribute atm imo.
Got all the tools to be a good striker in a few years - unfair on the lad to expect him to carry the burden for this United team almost on his own
Watch the runs into the channels he makes to create space for others.
Though I will concede he doesn't do it as much as when he first joined, maybe because nobody ever plays him through.
Noticing this far too often now. The choice of runs is horrendous. The service excuse can’t be made when your striker is moving so bad. He is most of the time missing in action.
I will give him credit though when his movement helped free up space for Amad for the second goal.
Harder for Bruno to smash it across with his weakfoot.
Same here. These thoughts are happening far too often and not helping
Except from a near identical position 5 minutes later he makes the near post run and Dalot plays it deep to the back post. He is having to guess and with his current luck he is guessing wrong more often than not.
The biggest issue we have is that far too often he is alone in the box, look at other teams and they always have runners arriving from midfield. With multiple players in the box they can take up multiple positions giving the crosser way more chance for success. It is not a conincidence that McTominay has his best goal scoring season last year because for all of his limitations he was smart enough to occupy the space created by Hojlunds runs and reaped the reward.
Rasmus has a lot to learn but he is making good runs and he is occupying defenders to make space for others. We are collectively not doing a good enough job of taking advantage of this but there were signs today of improvement here, especially from Amad. We need to be quicker getting forward and crashing the box in possession in the way that sides like Liverpool seem to do with ease.
For Rasmus, this has been a rough few weeks and he remains a player who is in desperate need of a senior partner to learn from and to allow him to be an impact player from the bench while he refines his skills.
We desperately need to buy a more experienced starter, if Cavani was up top today we probably end up winning. Playing this guy every match isn't fair to anyone, he's crumbling under the pressure. Ultimate blame goes back to Murtough, getting Kane probably wasn't plausible but instead of spending 70m on a kid we should have got an Ivan Toney. Striker at United is too important of a position to be learning on the job...
I don't know how you can spend 70m on a striker and defend him on the basis that he's young and learning. Maybe he'll improve if he's loaned out but he's not going to improve at United, certainly not at the rate we need. We'd have scored 2/3 today if we had someone much better up there. The pitch was very wet, and I saw a lot of players slipping so it wasn't just him, but he just looks so wobbly and weak. He's not good at finding space either - so what is he good at?