His time has come. Absolutely awful performance tonight. I also blame Solskjær for not seeing it and sub him off for Cavani at halftime. It also shows the lack of squad depth when we need to play this guy for 90 minutes.
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How he wasn’t hauled off I don’t know.
He was like King Midas tonight, only everything he touched turned to shit.
He was like King Midas tonight, only everything he touched turned to shit.
I like him, but I don't think we can improve on where we are/have been the last few seasons relying on him.
He's now at an age too where, for a player in his position, this is his peak.
If he was a good impact player, he'd be a great option from the bench, but he only hits form of playing regularly.
If he carries on like this, it may be curtains sooner rather than later.
He's now at an age too where, for a player in his position, this is his peak.
If he was a good impact player, he'd be a great option from the bench, but he only hits form of playing regularly.
If he carries on like this, it may be curtains sooner rather than later.
Question is Martial or Bellion?
Absolutely awful tonight. I keep seeing people saying he's got all the potential and ability in the world, I hope that nonsense being spouted stops now.
Should be shipped out of the club asap.
Should be shipped out of the club asap.
Think the problem with Martial is that he just doesn’t have enough to his game as a striker. He’s good in one v ones and he’s good at scoring spectacular lower probability goals cutting in on his right and curling them in to the top corner. You don’t get too many chances one on one in the PL and scoring spectacular goals is unsustainable when it comes to consistency. Unless he can become a more dynamic forward his form is always going to be patchy. Pogba put in a nice ball across the 6 yard box tonight and Martial didn’t gamble. He needs to add a lot to his game.
I've really had it with him tbh. The best he'll ever be is a squad player, treat him as such. 33 year old Cavani is streets ahead of him. Martial should just be an impact sub, and if he hits a purple patch, great, start him when he gets enough good sub appearances. Drop him back when he's shit. He's not good enough to be more. Simple as that.
Been calling him out for a while now, getting labelled an "agenda poster".
Feel free to just focus on him for periods of a game, just watch him; see how every pass is under hit or behind the player or to their weaker foot.
See him hide behind defenders when midfielders are looking for a pass, his insistence that every ball has to be into his feet but he is on his toes so dispossessed.
Watch him try to take on fullbacks and lose the ball. See how he never overlaps Shaw when he gives him the ball.
Watch him wander about and miss every press trigger and amble towards the centre back who has a week to pass around him.
Then look up how much we are paying him per week and think how much better that money could be spent elsewhere in the squad.
Feel free to just focus on him for periods of a game, just watch him; see how every pass is under hit or behind the player or to their weaker foot.
See him hide behind defenders when midfielders are looking for a pass, his insistence that every ball has to be into his feet but he is on his toes so dispossessed.
Watch him try to take on fullbacks and lose the ball. See how he never overlaps Shaw when he gives him the ball.
Watch him wander about and miss every press trigger and amble towards the centre back who has a week to pass around him.
Then look up how much we are paying him per week and think how much better that money could be spent elsewhere in the squad.
It might be in a foreign language but picture tells the story.
Dog awful.
Dog awful.
Week in week out utter rubbish.
I like Anthony Martial but he just doesn't see the game well. Too often he wants the ball to feet and he doesn't anticipate. In the 2nd half Pogba put in a low cross that went past the far post. The cross was so obvious and nothing surprising, yet Martial is standing at the penalty spot. Cavani was making the near post run and Martial should be making the back post run. It should have been a tap in goal. But he just doesn't see the game well and that really frustrates me. He could be such a good player but he just doesn't see the runs. This isn't a knock on his work ethic. It's a knock on his off the ball movement. He just doesn't read the game well and he really needs to improve on that...
You can see why Mourinho wanted to sell. I don't think Martial will ever be the player that you can depend on, I like the guy and he has a lot of promise and potential, but at the end of the day we're Manchester United we can't keep giving these players chances.
I’d say Ole is ripping his hair out looking at him. How many chances does someone need to get into some form. Physically he’s obviously fit enough but I think his problem is clearly mental. He’s completely wimped out since Cavani arrived. Same thing as when zlatan came... I want competition for places and I want a striker who can at least work the opposition for 90 mins. He’s absolutely stinking the place out this season. He’s as bad as Werner at this stage.
Dreadful performance today and has consistently poor throughout the season. No energy, no intensity, looks unmotivated and unconcerned. We can't challenge for the title or win anything when players are these keep starting games.
He’ll do well to come back from that, one of the worst, lazy performances I’ve seen for a long time.
Seriously shocking.
Seriously shocking.
A squad player on his wages?
Pretty sure he lost the ball which lead to their second goal. He was constantly playing too deep, making poor decisions and just no conviction in anything he was doing. Awful performance. Why didn't he go off instead of Greenwood?!
To be fair, I think his hold up play is actually quite good. In fact, that's all he seems to do is play with back to goal...
And to think we laugh at the state pepe for arsenal, martial has been just as bad as him this season.
He better step for the rest of the season otherwise I hope ole gets rid of him in the summer, can see why Mourinho had little time for him.
He better step for the rest of the season otherwise I hope ole gets rid of him in the summer, can see why Mourinho had little time for him.
Bebe would have been an improvement on him tonight. Maybe even this season.
A Europa team can't accept this consistent level of performance from a 1st teamer.
A Europa team can't accept this consistent level of performance from a 1st teamer.
I couldnt believe ole took greenwood off and left martial on. What pitiful shite performance. If its not happening at least make an effort. Bruno looses the ball he runs his socks off to win it back, this fell jogs back... A terrible game in a poor season for him, i swear hes sulking over Cavani taking CF spot..
Sell him and buy someone who cares because it doesnt look like this guy gives a flying ****
Sell him and buy someone who cares because it doesnt look like this guy gives a flying ****
I've been among his biggest supporters on here but he's been consistently below par this season and needs to get his finger out or replaced come the summer.
I mean.... our whole squad is on stupid wages. So I won't pay that much attention to that. It is what it is. You pull up a list and its crazy. Looking strictly at the players and what a squad needs. He's good enough to be the 4th option for the front 4 to rotate/be a squad player. But not to be a starter. You still need good depth so we shouldn't sell him. Though I guess there's a world where we sign Sancho this summer so have Rashford/Sancho/Greenwood/Cavani/Diallo and Martial, who would then find himself well down the pecking order (replace Cavani with whatever #9 we go for, maybe its just Greenwood).
Very poor, hope ‘’those’’ people now can stop making excuses about the positive he brings with his hold up play this season because his hold up play this season is not the same as last season. Last season was great hold up play but it’s shite this season, he offers nothing now. Today is basically watching last season Lingard, struggling to even control the ball.
I think I may also have mentioned this before, but as a Ravens fan I spent years getting sucked in by Kyle Boller. He would do things at times that would make you think "If he irons out the inconsistency in his game and work on his accuracy, he can be a really good qb", then he'd throw a boneheaded interception. For seasons it went on and I kept thinking "Maybe he'll finally put it all together". He never did. He was exactly what he showed he was.
I very much fear that Anthony Martial is Kyle Boller.
I very much fear that Anthony Martial is Kyle Boller.
Great first season, struggled second season. Third and fourth seasons he was very good when he played, he was dropped very harshly by Jose for Sanchez for the second half of his third season and first half of his fourth season. Once Jose was gone he was good again for Solskjaer. Fifth season he was great. This is his worst season so far.
You can see Ole is trying and trying with him and it’s just not going for him.
He can’t start on Saturday. No way.
He can’t start on Saturday. No way.
Anthony Martial, 2-1 down in 89th minute during a title battle.
The difference between him and Cavani there
Abysmal and Greenwood was no way worse than him.
I mean, he made one dangerous run from the half-way line beating two players in that game before losing the ball.
That's leaps and bounds better than tonight.
This sums it up. The guy doesn't have it.
Done with him..
Shit attitude, worst player on the park every single week.
Sooner he fecks off the better.
Hopefully a team is still willing to take his wages off us.
Shit attitude, worst player on the park every single week.
Sooner he fecks off the better.
Hopefully a team is still willing to take his wages off us.
It's bigger than just having only 2 goals in the league which is fecking terrible anyway. It's that his general play is so fecking rubbish it's impossible to withstand watching him at the moment. On current form I just hate watching him on the ball. I don't look forward to the ball reaching him. It's a disgrace all honestly he finished such game.
If this keeps going on for the next 6 months it's time to move on. It has been 6 fecking years, in which he has played consistently well over a long period for, I think only 1.5 years ? Otherwise games here and there, and this is even hasn't been the case this year.
If this keeps going on for the next 6 months it's time to move on. It has been 6 fecking years, in which he has played consistently well over a long period for, I think only 1.5 years ? Otherwise games here and there, and this is even hasn't been the case this year.
Needs to be dropped for a while.
Anthony Martial, 2-1 down in 89th minute during a title battle.
The difference between him and Cavani there
Embarrassing people defend this waste man. The state of that, he barely moved five yards
His days at United are numbered, he's not reliable as an out and out 9. If we sign Sancho or any other RW in summer, I could see him being moved on so Greenwood can rotate with Cavani.
He's offered the bare minimum for months now, his link up play has been overrated for a while and his positional awareness and instinct just isn't that of a no.9. There was an instance were the ball was crossed, Cavani ran to the near post and Martial is stood on the penalty spot, when he should've been making a run into the middle of the two CBs and getting onto the end of it.
He's offered the bare minimum for months now, his link up play has been overrated for a while and his positional awareness and instinct just isn't that of a no.9. There was an instance were the ball was crossed, Cavani ran to the near post and Martial is stood on the penalty spot, when he should've been making a run into the middle of the two CBs and getting onto the end of it.
There's something just not right with him. I mean for so many players, when your form is that bad, they might try and work even harder to compensate for the lack of output. Rooney used to go through barren spells, but run himself into the ground all the same.
Martial is not only a shadow of the player he was last season, his effort is completely terrible. Now any player can go through a bad run of form, but not trying is just unforgivable. It's not the lack of goals or assists, it's the lack of....well, anything.
Drop him, and if there's not a reaction then sell. Talent is nothing without the mentality to go with it. I can barely stand to see him on the pitch these days.
Martial is not only a shadow of the player he was last season, his effort is completely terrible. Now any player can go through a bad run of form, but not trying is just unforgivable. It's not the lack of goals or assists, it's the lack of....well, anything.
Drop him, and if there's not a reaction then sell. Talent is nothing without the mentality to go with it. I can barely stand to see him on the pitch these days.
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