What is it, one goal in the league since September? Flashy dribbling will only get you so far.
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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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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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He's very economical with his movement isn't he? That's something missing at the moment for me, doesn't seem to make the right runs frequently enough or have that anticipation in the box. I'm sure it'll come in time.
We're running him into the ground and it's only going to get worse over the festive period. I don't think anyone expected him to be playing so much so soon.
Should've scored today granted, but you can't blame him when he's been our only player who actually looks to create chances for himself or others since he's come in basically.
Needs to put a bit more effort into chasing down the ball and trying to make chances for himself for me . Looks disinterested at times.
Other than that great dribbling again, hopefully his game comes together and more of these dribbles lead to something. Needs more service from his team mates as well though it must be said.
Other than that great dribbling again, hopefully his game comes together and more of these dribbles lead to something. Needs more service from his team mates as well though it must be said.
If and when we sign other worthy attacking players, the extra space for Martial will make us very dangerous.
He can't be expected to carry the attack on his own.
Once he has a teammate on the same wavelength he will be some force to deal with.
Once he has a teammate on the same wavelength he will be some force to deal with.
Some nice footwork at times and got into a couple of decent positions, but not his day.
Was very poor I thought. Obviously it will happen as he is young though.
He probably should have scored, but then again, he shouldnt be relied upon to get goals and carry our attack in his first season where we arent even giving him any minutes to rest.
Agreed. Add some experience, and competition and it will do him and the team a whole lot of good.
He still has that rare ability to carry the ball past defenders with ease, even if his finishing has gone off a bit. He looks like a dangerous but young forward who has all the tools but hasn't quite figured out how to use them most effectively yet. It's our own fault for expecting him to score all our goals.
I think you can see the pressure getting to him. When he was first signed he didn't show any emotion after doing something, whether it was good or bad. But now after he misses a chance or makes a mistake I can see him getting down on himself. It's really unfortunate that we are relying so heavily on him.
His close control is exceptional but I think eventually he'll be better off as a wide forward in the role Neymar plays right now than as an out and out striker.
Some brilliant foot work spoiled by bad finishing.IMO he played at the right position,i would say he need to be played more at this position even when Rooney returns.
He's a really mediocre ball striker. There's nothing behind his efforts.
He needs to work on shooting practice. The rest of his game already ranges from ok to very good. He needs more venom in his attempts.
We are over using him and that's LVG's fault due to not signing enough strikers in the first place.
This.
Of course not. He is 20 and not even at the club for half a year, it would also help if he wasn't our only competent attacker atm.
Thing about his dribbling is that he has tried to initiate 1-2's plenty of times from what I've seen but the likes of Depay, Lingard and especially Mata somehow do not return the ball to him enough.
His ball control and dribbling is there, but need to improve his finishing.
His ability to escape from tight spaces is ridiculous. Is he related to Houdini?
his finishing is actually pretty good, its not his fault that he gets 1 chance per game....
Is that something you can actually improve at this stage of your career? Souness said Sterling lacks power in his shots but can improve that with training, but I found that a bit odd. I can't think of any players that have developed a more powerful strike later in this professional career.
You can always improve your shooting technique, but the power's either there or it's not.
Memphis has shown glimpses of being on the same wave-length but they have not had much time together and the players don't have much confidence right now.
I honestly don't know, it is his most obvious weakness at the moment. Just like @ADJUDICATOR said, with better technique his shots would already start to cause more trouble.
I still think he's performed better when he's come from the wing. He has so much more space over there.
Mata in behind him would be perfect. Look at the goal in Wolfsburg, that's where Mata should be all the time, not on the right wing where he's not suited to the requirements of a winger.
I like him being in the centre and going out to the right to get the ball, it works because it pulls apart the defence and allows other players to run into the box whilst he creates something. Its what he did against Wolfsburg but Rooney missed the chance. He can do the same on the left with Memphis and the no.10 running into the middle, hopefully our attackers learn how to interchange better, could be good tactic.
He was there last game and he did absolutely nothing. Mata needs replacing just as much as we need a pacey winger to supplement Marital.
This lad is a little gem. Which needs some polishing
caption contest.
And they said he shows no emotions.
This, especially if our next manager has us playing fast counter attacking football.
He will improve his finishing, nothing that hard work won't iron out. Rooney was similar at a young age and he ended up pretty good at scoring, just a shame the rest of his game took a nosedive
Mata has had enough chances and has proved on many occasions now that he isn't good enough.
I'm inclined to agree sadly. Thought we had our own David Silva when we signed him, such a shame.
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