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2025-26 Performances

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5.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
17
Goals
2
Assists
2
Yellow cards
1
Remember the geese said:
There shouldn't be any discourse regarding Amad's role at wing-back. He's one of our best players. Amorim may well be doing a good job. If he can get us back into Europe this season, then that represents improvement.
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When you say he's one of our best players, what do you mean? If you think he's one of our best eleven then yes, he is. If you're talking top three you're significantly overrating him
 
bosnian_red said:
Amad at wing back has its pros but also some very obvious cons which can be targeted as happened today. Great goal, but aside from that thought he was poor (but not through his fault so much as to Forest just doing well on him). It's a 343 thing which, eventually, I think will come back into discussion but for now we're having a little renaissance after a long shit spell so it's fine.
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Great balanced summary of what happened today.

My fear is, any half decent coach should see he can be targeted defensively and that’s no fault of his.
 
bosnian_red said:
Amad at wing back has its pros but also some very obvious cons which can be targeted as happened today. Great goal, but aside from that thought he was poor (but not through his fault so much as to Forest just doing well on him). It's a 343 thing which, eventually, I think will come back into discussion but for now we're having a little renaissance after a long shit spell so it's fine.
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It was his fault too if you ask me. He as very negative today and barely did what he is so good at which is go 1 vs 1.
 
Remember the geese said:
I don't feel that top three is overrating him. He's definitely in with a shout.
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Disagree. I'd have Cunha, Mbeumo, De Ligt, Bruno, Case ahead of him at the least, and possibly Mount too. Amad flatters to deceive, for me. Very easy on the eye, mind.
 
Pickle85 said:
Disagree. I'd have Cunha, Mbeumo, De Ligt, Bruno, Case ahead of him at the least, and possibly Mount too. Amad flatters to deceive, for me. Very easy on the eye, mind.
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No reason as to why Amad isn't in that group. I don't view Amad as any more inconsistent than any of the others.
 
Remember the geese said:
No reason as to why Amad isn't in that group. I don't view Amad as any more inconsistent than any of the others.
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I guess it's a game of opinions. For me he isn't close to the top three. He looks tidy and passes the eye test but doesn't impose himself enough on games regularly enough.
 
He suffers from Mbuemo being (currently) our best player and that offensively Amad is by far our best RM. His size and lack of physicality obviously mean he's going to be outmuscled in defensive aspects of the game, but that's on Amorim. If he was failing to track back, attempt tackles or...bless him...compete aerially on set pieces with 6 foot+ opponents we'd be entitled to moan.
 
The only reason this 3-4-3 is kinda working is Amad put some respect on the boy, he’s sacrificing his own development by force of course. Just wait until AFCON comes around and we will see how bad it goes for us and this system without him in it, both sides will look like whatever side Dalot is playing on.
 
Every time he's not on the pitch our offensive output seems to dissipate - he's not only one of our best players, he's one of the most crucial keys in making this formation work. I think at this stage any other player in our squad would be more easily replaceable than him
 
Pickle85 said:
I guess it's a game of opinions. For me he isn't close to the top three. He looks tidy and passes the eye test but doesn't impose himself enough on games regularly enough.
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There's been plenty of games this season where he has imposed himself. No less than anybody else.
 
Remember the geese said:
There's been plenty of games this season where he has imposed himself. No less than anybody else.
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Agreed, it's not like anyone in our squad has been consistently good this season (bar De Light). Also he's only 23, of course he won't be as consistent as the more experienced players like Mbuemo and Cunha.
 
Remember the geese said:
There's been plenty of games this season where he has imposed himself. No less than anybody else.
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Which games would you say he particularly imposed himself? He was poor today, bar the goal - he's really not stood out this season so far.
lost7 said:
Agreed, it's not like anyone in our squad has been consistently good this season (bar De Light). Also he's only 23, of course he won't be as consistent as the more experienced players like Mbuemo and Cunha.
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Agreed, but I'm arguing he's not a top five performer, never mind top three, at the moment - age doesn't factor into that equation.
 
Pickle85 said:
Disagree. I'd have Cunha, Mbeumo, De Ligt, Bruno, Case ahead of him at the least, and possibly Mount too. Amad flatters to deceive, for me. Very easy on the eye, mind.
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Mount over Amad? You're seriously underrating him. Him, Mbuemo and Bruno are our best players.
 
Pickle85 said:
Which games would you say he particularly imposed himself? He was poor today, bar the goal - he's really not stood out this season so far.

Agreed, but I'm arguing he's not a top five performer, never mind top three, at the moment - age doesn't factor into that equation.
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Nope. You said talented.
 
Not a wing back but does a job there.

Moment of magic today shows why he’s on of our technically better players, can produce moments like that from nothing.

A very very good player being played out of position.
 
Pickle85 said:
Which games would you say he particularly imposed himself? He was poor today, bar the goal - he's really not stood out this season so far.
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He imposes himself in most games. You forget that he's a wing-back. Not a centre forward. Others should be expected to carry more of the creative/goalscoring burden. Even so, he imposed himself from the very first game. Coming on against Arsenal and skipping by Madueke for fun. Amad has played well against Burnley, Chelsea, Sunderland, Liverpool, Brighton etc and been a big contributer to our wins. You say he was poor today, but scoring today is imposing himself.
 
Games like today is where we really gets exposed because he is the right back covering the opponent winger.

Dyche targeted our right side and it worked.
 
Remember the geese said:
He imposes himself in most games. You forget that he's a wing-back. Not a centre forward. Others should be expected to carry more of the creative/goalscoring burden. Even so, he imposed himself from the very first game. Coming on against Arsenal and skipping by Madueke for fun. Amad has played well against Burnley, Chelsea, Sunderland, Liverpool, Brighton etc and been a big contributer to our wins. You say he was poor today, but scoring today is imposing himself.
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Nail on the head. Do people want to see a Amad that just passes it backwards and plays it safe he can do that and he can save himself from running on the overlap and to try make plays thats what some people seem to want from him. At the end of the day he’s a defender in this formation with attacking freedom but his starting position is still a defender that needs to trackback all the way back.
 
He’s just not a wing back at all.

He’s good going forward and but the gaps behind him are obvious.

I love Amad and it’s just such a waste of his talents.
 
Remember the geese said:
He imposes himself in most games. You forget that he's a wing-back. Not a centre forward. Others should be expected to carry more of the creative/goalscoring burden. Even so, he imposed himself from the very first game. Coming on against Arsenal and skipping by Madueke for fun. Amad has played well against Burnley, Chelsea, Sunderland, Liverpool, Brighton etc and been a big contributer to our wins. You say he was poor today, but scoring today is imposing himself.
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The only examples you've given are that he dribbled Madueke and played well against basically everyone we've played this season, which frankly isn't true. He has one goal and two assists in 9 PL games, not bad but certainly not enough to assert he's a top performer for us. And you're using the 'he's a wing back not a center forward' as a reason why he hasn't contributed more on paper, while totally ignoring that then defensive side of his game which, like it or not, is still quite important for a wb, has been poor.

He's been average this season - he's a fairly talented player but you are drastically overestimating his abilities as things stand
 
UnitedRepublic said:
Nail on the head. Do people want to see a Amad that just passes it backwards and plays it safe he can do that and he can save himself from running on the overlap and to try make plays thats what some people seem to want from him. At the end of the day he’s a defender in this formation with attacking freedom but his starting position is still a defender that needs to trackback all the way back.
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You're arguing against yourself. He's poor doing the defensive work, so half of his job is being done badly.
 
He’s been excellent this season, for me. If we had an Amad on the left we would have a good few more points. Quality player.
 
Matt851 said:
It's another instance of one of our most talented players being misused
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He has potential but it feels like we've been saying this for a while now. He shines sporadically and after a point it becomes his issue, not because of everyone else. Don't get me wrong, I rate him, but I'm pushing back against what seems like him being very overrated here. He's been lauded for ages by some here without him really doing much to justify it. If he can start putting it all together consistently, great. Until then he just seems like a moments player that has a tendency to fade in and out of games.
 
Pickle85 said:
The only examples you've given are that he dribbled Madueke and played well against basically everyone we've played this season, which frankly isn't true. He has one goal and two assists in 9 PL games, not bad but certainly not enough to assert he's a top performer for us. And you're using the 'he's a wing back not a center forward' as a reason why he hasn't contributed more on paper, while totally ignoring that then defensive side of his game which, like it or not, is still quite important for a wb, has been poor.

He's been average this season - he's a fairly talented player but you are drastically overestimating his abilities as things stand
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You seem to have unrealistic standards in regards to the level of productivity for a wing-back. Yet, at the same time, downplay Amad's level of talent. Amad isn't going to score or assist in every game. There isn't a wing-back past or present who does. It isn't just skipping past Madueke on several occasions. It's scoring today. It's winning a penalty against Burnley. It's winning a penalty against Brighton that wasn't awarded. It's assisting Mbeumo at Anfield. It's various penetrating runs and combination play that has caused havoc. You question Amad defensively, but if you can play as a wing-back at Anfield, you can play as a wing-back anywhere. Fact of the matter is that this team concedes too many goals. That isn't solely on Amad. Our best form of defence is attack and Amad is brilliant at pressing from the front.

Amad has been far from average this season. He is a huge factor in making this system work. Frankly, we need another Amad for the left hand side.
 
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We should be able to cover for Amad’s defensive weaknesses if our three centre backs were more on the ball. Yoro’s having a tricky second season so far and his poor decisions and positioning is a big problem for Amad.

Side note, Amad’s consistently been one of our better players in our recent run of good results and bailed us out today with a world class goal. Seems really odd to to criticise him today.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
We should be able to cover for Amad’s defensive weaknesses if our three centre backs were more on the ball. Yoro’s having a tricky second season so far and his poor decisions and positioning is a big problem for Amad.

Side note, Amad’s consistently been one of our better players in our recent run of good results and bailed us out today with a world class goal. Seems really odd to to criticise him today.
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Yes and no. After a weak start to the season, he has played very well these last few games and has become onenof our most important players again, but today he played pretty badly both ways for most of the time IMO, which his brilliantly taken goal doesn’t remove. I think you can criticize some things while still lauding others.
 
I think people are overreacting to one bad defensive performance from him. He’s been very good defensively for almost the whole season. He can absolutely play wingback without it being some sort of major issue.
 
Grande said:
Yes and no. After a weak start to the season, he has played very well these last few games and has become onenof our most important players again, but today he played pretty badly both ways for most of the time IMO, which his brilliantly taken goal doesn’t remove. I think you can criticize some things while still lauding others.
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He made the mistakes defensively.

On the attacking side, I think credit to Forest for shutting down the wing on the right side. Even Mbeumo had a difficult game and they always had an extra man shutting down each of Amad and Mbeumo.

Amad found a way to score one and almost scored another. I am not sure we can ask more.
 
I think the expectation of him being defensively good is a bit too high.
He's more deadly up the field with MBeumo. Even if he was used to playing a RWB role, we can't really expect him to defend that well since his energy levels would be lower since he's bombing up and down the wings so often. We really shouldn't be relying on him to win headers in the box though.
 
Pickle85 said:
He most certainly isn't our most talented player on the ball.

Aside from the goal and that other shot I thought he was pretty dreadful today - looked a bit lackadaisical and gave the ball away or ran into trouble too regularly.
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Who is, what did this supposed player did in the match, enlighten us please.
 
Pickle85 said:
Disagree. I'd have Cunha, Mbeumo, De Ligt, Bruno, Case ahead of him at the least, and possibly Mount too. Amad flatters to deceive, for me. Very easy on the eye, mind.
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He the best Manchester United player at the moment and by far.
 
Tallis said:
He made the mistakes defensively.

On the attacking side, I think credit to Forest for shutting down the wing on the right side. Even Mbeumo had a difficult game and they always had an extra man shutting down each of Amad and Mbeumo.

Amad found a way to score one and almost scored another. I am not sure we can ask more.
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Agreed. Sometimes the opposition plays well, rather than being hyper critical of the player. He was better than MBuemo in my opinion and we know how good he is.
 
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