I wasn't criticising him.
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He actually put a shift in tonight. Some lovely moves up top too. I think there was one moment where he suffered from cement feet that I remember but if he does everything else like tonight the rest of the time it doesn't matter so much.
This is the Martial most knew could come about if he put the effort in. Great to see it happening now.
This is the Martial most knew could come about if he put the effort in. Great to see it happening now.
That was the people that acted as though he played like he is doing now when he didn'tMartial FC
He needs more protection from refs. Juve defenders kept fouling him and the RB never got booked until near the end. it opens the game up if we know one of the defenders is on a yellow and Martial will more likely create something for us.
He put in a real shift and wasn't in the dangerous areas for most of the game but he was decisive with one or two moments and that's a sign of a top top player.
No, that was the people who thought he would get there by consistent playing time and that he shouldn't have been discarded so quickly after Sanchez came through. To expect Martial to get to where he is now with sporadic and inconsistent time is dumb and unrealistic. We would have seen the Martial we are seeing now back then as well.
He has gotten here by sparodic game time though.
Nope, that's not who it was ever aimed at. It was always aimed at people saying how he had an amazing game when he didn't do anything, then getting super arsey about it when someone suggested otherwise.
And also, he's got there now through sporadic game time, but actually putting the effort in. And then he gets more consistent game time. Just like expected.
I must have misunderstood the tone of the post, it didn't sound complimentary.
On second reading ive realised i missed the word "our" in your first sentence which changes it entirely.
Apologies
Martial had 1 assist and 0 goals in 500 minutes in the second half of last season. He also admitted himself that he was not good in 16/17 due to problems in his personal life.
Martial FC is a real thing when they are saying things that contradict what Martial himself believes.
But the effort in was always there when he's had the confidence of the manager. Just look at his first season under LvG, he was doing the same level of work whether it was attacking or defending. He didn't have a Luke Shaw behind him is the biggest difference for me. Some of you lots acting like he was doing feck all but scoring goals or assisting prior to January.
I don't think anybody here is debating Martial's first season with Jose. The whole Martial FC vs Jose Brigade (because, we need to label these things) started in January of last year where one of the most in-form player was quickly let go to persist through an awful Sanchez instead of finding a way to get the Chilean integrated alongside an in-form Martial.
Juve clearly marked him as the danger man, gave him no Space and double/triple teamed him at times.
Towards the end he got better and better, they just couldn’t handle him.
So annoyed at Rashford for not burying that chance, would have gone down as a legendary assist from tony!
Absolutely love the guy
Towards the end he got better and better, they just couldn’t handle him.
So annoyed at Rashford for not burying that chance, would have gone down as a legendary assist from tony!
Absolutely love the guy
Needs to sign that contract asap.
To be fair I hope they are proved right about Rashford because we'd have two excellent players.
He was often stood still and missing through the majority of games throughout this supposed in form period last season. Now he's showing himself to be involved with games, not just turning up with a goal every now and then. We were told by posters like yourself that that's just how he is. You have to accept that you won't see much of him and be happy with the odd goal.
Well, now we have someone actually involved in the game more.
The flash.
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The arrogance when he dribbles in full flow, fecking love it.
The arrogance when he dribbles in full flow, fecking love it.
SIGN THE CONTRACT !!
He has these moments where he looks like an advertisement for a new Fifa release.
Wait, people actually believed Rashford was better than Martial. Rashford will be at Everton in a few years if he doesn't change the way he plays. Very selfish. People praise him because he 'drives forward' by that they mean run with your head down and ignore your team mates. Martial was fantastic from a tactical point of few today in defense and his run was the catalyst for the come back. Very mature performance.
Could anyone find his other move right after skinning Cuadadro. The build up move that led to the free kick. He literally left a Juve player on his arse, that piece of skill is even better than the Cuadadro skinning.
Can anyone post a gif?
Can anyone post a gif?
Incredible, really. He should’ve had three in the last two games alone!
Was that the one two stuff? That was very nice and a shame it didn't come back to him at the end...although not a shame considering.
No worries mate.
That's why assists are such a stupid statistic.
Guys the next question is how do we get Martial more on the ball? I mean like under van gaal when he was magic most of the game. He came to life very late on but thats just because Juventus were very annoying most of the game. Mourinho has to create special instructions for the team like van gaal used to do. If we can isolate or create space for him more times during the games we wont have to wait for him to create magic so late on. Martial is our hazard now and we need him on the ball more than ever.
Imagine a United team without him and Pogba...
Anyone got a GIF of him putty g Cuadrado on his arse in our own half, that was crazy if it was intentional!
Martial is on another level to Rashford from technical points, we need to replace Rashford and Lingard with a more technical player who knows what to do with balls.
He had a great game.
Definitely a point to be made in the Martial thread.
When he is on the move and receives the ball, he’s unstoppable. It really makes me sometimes wonder why he insists on completely stopping before receiving the ball so many times.
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Could become reality come summer unfortunately.
In which case we will regress even more.
Honestly if we lost those two we would need to spend something around 300 mil plus if we want to have the players needed to compete
Lingard is no slouch either. What are you smoking?
That was great. Left him on his arse.
He's been marked by two or even three men in games for a long time now. Tells you something about his perceived quality by the oppositions and unperceived quality by some of our supporters.
In great form and he will probably get chances to run at the City defence at the weekend .
.Streetball anklebreaker, love it!
His transition from standing/walking/jogging stance to sprint is so hard to read, unpredictable. That for me is his greatest weapon.
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