Sam
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He's an absolute fecking coward. Can't stand him.
Thought apart from the mistake for their goal, he was actually OK defensively. There was one moment in particular when Sunderland would have been in on goal and he got an important touch away. His strength was good and held off people, shielding the ball well.
Offensively he was poor though, the assist aside. Yorke was right when said that it should have given Valencia confidence but he looked afraid to take on the left back as though he'd forgotten there was no Rafael to bail him out.
Not a good performance but Young, Cleverley and Fletcher were worse by some distance in my opinion.
Every LB has him sussed out. Two years ago. All anyone has to do is push him onto his left, and 99.9% of the time it'll result in a short back pass infield.Today the LB sussed him out, showed him to his left and Valencia crumbled every time. He has 0 belief in himself.
He's not a coward. Tom Cleverley is a coward, Valencia is just shit.He's an absolute fecking coward. Can't stand him.
I really remember this too, I was like "wtf, the ball wasn't that high, he could have controlled it"My favourite moment of the game today was when Cleverley played a long ball out to him on the wing, and then because a defender was close to him, he moved away from the wing and pretended the pass was too high for him, even though it bounced about half a metre before it went off the pitch.
Surely when you do things like that you must feel like the world's smallest man?
He's lazy - a professional footballer with nothing else to do all day can work on his wrong foot to the point where it is at least functional. Quite why a supposedly elite club hasn't forced him to do so is another question.He's not a coward. Tom Cleverley is a coward, Valencia is just shit.
One second in a match defines an overall performance?Why are people saying he was good defensively when he was the man assigned to mark Rodwell?
He's worse than useless. He's been a fecking liability going forward for 3 seasons running now and still gets in the team.New season, new Valencia. In new, I mean that we all once viewed him as a major asset. Now I wouldn't even play him in our 2nd string team. He's fecking useless.
He does have this issue. A drawback considering he has played as a winger for basically all of his career though. Luckily his pace means he can recover most of the time.Whenever he is on defensive duties his positoning almost always leads to a chance for the opposition at some point.
Yup, making him another player whose wages we'd have to pay if we ever wanted to offload him.Good thing we have him tied for the next 3 years.
But the most annoying thing is that he doesn't even attempt to take on his man. When he does square up in an one-on-one situation, he tends to look rather dangerous.Every LB has him sussed out. Two years ago. All anyone has to do is push him onto his left, and 99.9% of the time it'll result in a short back pass infield.
He's been unable/unwilling to work on a solution, hence the completely inept performances.
Nah, he was caught napping a few times. Jones did a terrific job making up for "wing-backs'" mistakes.He was ok defensively yesterday but if he continue to put in performance like this offensively I wouldn't start him ahead of Lingard let alone Rafael.
Errr people aren't literally saying he doesn't have a left foot, they're saying he doesn't use it...The most frustrating thing for me about Valencia s that people say 'he's got no left foot' because of his refusal to use it (he'll do a 360 just to avoid it). However, the rare times he's used it from memory it's been perfectly fine. Against Villa last year when he was on fire he put in a dangerous left foot cross that Giggs nearly got on the end of early on, then played that quality reverse through ball Welbeck using his left also. In the past, I'm sure he's even got assists with it, so why doesn't he use it more often? His whole game for us up to 2012 was going past a man and firing in a cross along the 6 yard line (like he did yesterday) but obviously now full backs show him inside. If he could just show the opposition a decent left foot cross they'd be more chance of space opening up on the outside.
OK fine. The point is, he only needs to show the left back he can actually produce something when shown inside on his left and they'll be more space for him to exploit on his stronger foot.Errr people aren't literally saying he doesn't have a left foot, they're saying he doesn't use it...
and that is really saying something.He makes Young look like Luis Figo.
He makes me want to claw my eyes out.
He's just a massive oaf. For someone so quick he's got a terrible leap and usually prefers to barge them in the back and concede a freekick.His positioning is fine. He's just shit in the air. Always has been. I remember when people were talking about converting him to right back a year or two ago - I was saying the same thing then.