Precisely. Especially the mice analogy considering it's Valencia we're talking about.
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
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- Clean sheets
- 10
- Goals
- 0
- Assists
- 4
- Yellow cards
- 1
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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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I think Lingard's actually completed a cross this decade to be fair.
This is true, that being said we need a breath of fresh air and hopefully Valencia can ignite the right side in some capacity. I just can't handle seeing Mata on the right anymore, it seems LVG is the only person in the world who thinks that's a good idea.
Not sure about him just walking in the team ahead of Varela and Darmian after a long injury lay off
if hes fit he's got a chance, the other 2 haven't exactly nailed the spot
Valencia couldn't ignite a firelog. One of the most boring, predictable and safe players in any league in the world.
He couldn't cross a road.
What I see is a group of above average players (no where near to world class) who are made to play in a horrible system. Under such circumstances they will barely make any difference at all
That's literally the first time that has been posted in a thread about Valencia. You should go to the thread about Mata and ask what's the Mata with him because that would be hilarious too.
Seems to have made you cross.
Yet would you prefer the unpredictability of Darmain? Given the choice Valencia all day long for me.
Valencia has 15 goals in his entire United career. Lingard is already on 5 after three quarters of his first season.
Goal threat is definitely something Lingard has over him.
We were more open after he came on, which could be to do with chasing a goal, but a lot of Liverpool's penetrative passes came into the channels he has never in his career managed to block - between RCB and RB.
spot on
He was actually looking quite good before he got injured, got an assist and nullified Sterling in the last derby.
It's really not though. It's spot on for RAWK but united players just tend to get worse. For example, who of our injured players are getting hyped? Rooney got injured in good form but now he's shit and fat again. Jones is just Jones. I don't even know who else we have injured because they are all so shit.
Man City 0:1 Man Utd
Same ol' Valencia. Now I remember why I don't miss him!
I thought he did fine.
What did he do well?
He executed some of his trademark shin-seeker passes into opponents socks.
Shinseeker
Did well when he came on, made us a lot more solid on that side. Great to have him back, the biggest thing he provides is that physicality, pace and even if he is one dimensional, he kick it against those shines with conviction instead of half tapping everything like darmian has been doing.
Like?
He was appalling decision-wise.
He started off with giving Aguero room for a backpost free header. Then he chased Clichy into his own half and 2 passes later Smalling almost got sent off. Finally he lost Aguero at the backpost again (and then got beaten once Aguero chested it down) but fortunately the shot was off target.
He started off with giving Aguero room for a backpost free header. Then he chased Clichy into his own half and 2 passes later Smalling almost got sent off. Finally he lost Aguero at the backpost again (and then got beaten once Aguero chested it down) but fortunately the shot was off target.
Apart from losing Aguero off the dribble when he first came on that nearly gave him an assist, he tightened up defensively especially when he had check Aguero a lot more. He kept him quiet and forced him to take shots from way out.
He also looked far more comfortable in possession than Darmian did and provided the physicality when we needed it. I think "fine" and "okay" fairly sums up his performance today.
Offensively he was ok, about equal to Rojo. Not a threat but he can carry the ball out and usually keeps possession.
It is amazing how much happiness and quickness certain United fans take in ripping apart Valencia.
Sad really.
Sad really.
It's strange how he refuses to make the pass across the attacker to the free centre back, that's become vital to our possession football.
Decent performance.
Decent performance.
He let Aguero walk around him for that Silva cross. Bless him and his tank physique but he falls asleep a bit too often as a right back. I'm not concerned as long as the play is developing infront of him but I'm concerned when he has his back to his man.
His positional awareness was poor. On another day, at least 3 chances would have been converted from his positional play. He was exposed far too easily and Im surprised it took City till the last couple of minutes to throw Aguero on him.
Get over it.
Nothing wrong has been said.
I didn't watch the game but i just watched about 10 minutes of match highlights and it seemed that every time he was out of position or not aware of the players around him. I hope he does better once he gets some match fitness.
I quite like Tony V. But not at RB. Managers fall in love with his pace, physicality and think he can be an ideal RB but his positional sense defensively has been shown time and again to be lacking. Still thinks he offers something as a rotation player at RW.
Hearsay is so lame. Defenders even on the best games can make mistakes.
Positionally sometimes he was off but he made up for some of it;in addition, he had some nice moments going 1v1 with Aguero and brought the energy and physicality needed.
As I said IMO,
He was not Brilliant
He was not Fantastic
He was not great
He was not good
He was not decent
He was fine.
Thought he was fine. Better than the starting fullbacks. He can actually move the ball forward.
He only put in 1 failed cross and people are already making shin jokes.
If it was Varela or Fosu Mensah who did that, would they do make those same jokes? No.
Very tidy in possession as always. Almost cost us a couple of times by losing Aguero at the back post.
Delighted to have him back though - another body in a thin squad.
Delighted to have him back though - another body in a thin squad.
Can't deal with the ball in the air when defending at all. On the plus side he is strong and looks after the ball batter than the others in that position. He would be my choice for starting LB.
You can't see why that might be different?
Struggled with Aguero but it is Aguero to be fair. Put in one great tackle in the box that the haters won't have seen. Think Rojo was an accident waiting to happen today so was a good sub.
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