Carrick/Bastain + Schneiderlin + Herrera
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 41
- Goals
- 5
- Assists
- 6
- Yellow cards
- 9
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
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Another unbelievable game from him, particularly when he was paired up with Mata in the first half
He's a great player. No question about that.
Like 1 poster said, he adds that dynamism to our attack which is needed.
Very good performance.
Very good performance.
Because there is more to a game than just a great player of a certain sort? Sometimes...and we have seen it...he doesn't fit the opposition...simple as that. I trust the guys that study the opposition to judge that.
Decisive player for this team
It's downright silly that he doesn't hold a regular place in the first team.
Excellent game from him, really is the heartbeat when he plays.
BFS + schneiderlin + Herrera is our best possible combo and should start every game.
BFS + schneiderlin + Herrera is our best possible combo and should start every game.
feck off
He is actually getting better when not playing, imagine how good he could become if given regular playing time!
Fecking hell
All im saying is, this is the guy who is benched to accommodate Rooney into the XI. "OKE"
I got to admit, I would be playing over Rooney at this point, certainly off the striker anyway.
people are laughing aswell!
Fantastic today, I actually gave Smalling MoTM but I can see why so many gave it to Ander with his all round performance plus a goal and an assist to show for it. Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger and Carrick are all excellent midfielders, but Herrera seems to add some urgency and life to our play that's sometimes missing whenever he's not on the pitch. Him and Schneiderlin made a big difference I think.
It's hard to get excited with his performances or potential because I just know that LvG is waiting for one mistake or for his favourites to pick up form before dropping him like a sack of shit because he has a way shorter leash than a everyone else. Great game today and like we have been saying, we don't lose much in attack when we play him proving again that LvG is full of shit when he says ge prefers his 10 to be more a second striker than a midfielder yet we suffer creatively because his 10s create a huge disconnect between the front two and the rest of the midfield. This guy gives us offensive and defensive balance plus our attacks do not break down because of a shit first touch or a poor short passing game.
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Need a gif of him kissing Mata's forehead after the 2nd goal 
Great to have him back fit and in form right before the City game. We missed him against Arsenal (and Schneiderlin), but Van Gaal singling him out as the star man today probably means that he'll start next week as well. As he should. Just gives us so much.
I never understood why he got benched. While I'm not in the Herrera fanboy club like some here, he's a great player and I can't remember a really poor performance by him. He's very versatile and thus always contributes in one way or another. There's no reason to not keep playing him.
He just keeps winning him over. Now stick with him for god sake!
Play a proper midfield 3 and play Herrera and we are a better team both defensively and offensively.
It was that West Brom away game last season, he just came back from injury but he was absolutely terrible. Came off at half time and was relegated to the bench for aaaages until he came back in and dominated games.
I think there was a similar game this season where Herrera looked really poor but I can't remember which one it was.
Absolutely. He needs to play every game.
Praise the Lord! Now don't drop him LVG!
Would people be happy to see Martial shunted out wide (although he still plays very well there) to accommodate Herrera in midfield?
Whilst Martial played well on the left Rooney is guy guy who should be shunted out on the left because Martial just gives us so much more playing uptop - his hold up play, dribbling and a much better short passing game could see us build something beautiful with Herrera and Mata. The problem would be width but Martial drifts around a lot so it's won't be as big an issue.
I'm not normally one of the ones blinded by Hererra love here but he made a huge difference to us today. He was outstanding.
Man of the match comfortably.
Spanish Lampard does it again. Bizarre how he isn't a guaranteed starter in our current squad.
Spanish Lampard does it again. Bizarre how he isn't a guaranteed starter in our current squad.
Rooney cant drive the flank pace wise and will always come inside on his right foot. It seems Martial is better both up top and doing his job for the team shape if playing on the left, as Rooney has to be shoehorned in somewhere.
I understand that but Rooney isn't pulling up trees playing as the striker, was giving away the ball for fun today before his goal so he is the one I'd shunt out wide to minimize his disruption to our flow. It's true that he won'r drive us from the wing like Martial did today but there he'd get more time on the ball and maybe get to link up with the LB.
He should be the first midfielder on our team sheet.
It was just a perfect number 10 display today from him. Assist, goal and helped both midfield and attack a lot. It was like having both second striker and 3rd midfielder on the pitch.
But there's this one thing I don't understand yet. He was dropped because of poor performances but other players were poor too, right?
This and explains why the b.s Lvg spouts to justify freezing him out is so fecking infuriating. He's got a set of attributes that make him perfect for the role in this role and in this league where you need the majority of your team to put in a shift.
Him and Schneiderlin simply have to start. Basti and Carrick can rotate for the third spot!
We look so much more dangerous going forward with him playing.
We look so much more dangerous going forward with him playing.
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