This is the kind of nonsense that needs to stop. Valencia has lots of faults (And he's a bit shite himself tbf) but he's still miles better than Darmian which says a lot about how utterly shite Darmian is. How in the world of feck was that a golden opportunity? The ball is over his head and he has 2 defenders converging ahead of him. Good touch and layoff to Rooney in my book. And aside from his assist (why would you ignore that?) his movement going forward was excellent.
Darmian is horrific defensively and going forward. He'd behind Varela, Valencia, Young and every other half decent youngster in the youth squad in the pecking order. Shambles of a player. And less said the better about calamity Rojo.
Darmian horrific defensively ? I am sorry, but that is just plain wrong. On two ocassions, he saved us with crucial clearances in the season, moments where he ended up being injured because of that. He's the best I have seen this season at 1 v 1s. And he's tactically very sound. He's not great going forward, but like I mentioned before that was never his strong suit. No point complaining about him being rubbish in attacking when he's never been great at it throughout his career.
And Valencia is a squad player at best. He is woefully inept in defense (Though he has improved a lot since he first started out at RB). In attacking, all he cares about is not losing possession. He will protect that at all cost, fair play to him for that though. But defensively, it is a no contest between him and Darmian. In the same way, it's a no contest between those two in an attacking sense. It just depends on what you are looking for in that RB position on a game to game basis.
You are talking complete nonsense! You say I am talking like LVG! What does that mean? Rojo is one of the worst players I have ever seen at United. He looks like a centre back playing left back and when playing centre back looks like a left back. He is 50/50 whether he keeps the ball or not and a time bomb when defending. Darmain looks like an under 16 playing in an adult game. At least with Valencia who is not the greatest he doesn't get dominated (by fleet foot wingers) wtf he has to play against the same players as Darmain does. He works the ball well going forward yes he can't cross but neither can Darmain. So I have no idea about the rubbish you are spouting. You are clearly watching different players from me.
Rojo had a pretty decent season last year, which you might have forgotten. Yeah, I am not going to claim he's great or anything, since all I spoke about him was like one sentence, but you've made it more than that.
Since you have already agreed that Valencia and Darmian are both rubbish at crosses, I am going to leave it at that. Regarding your point that "Darmain looks like an under 16 playing in an adult game. At least with Valencia who is not the greatest he doesn't get dominated (by fleet foot wingers)" , I am just going to share some simple statistics to make my point.
Source: Squawka
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I checked the duels section too and as expected Darmian was better in Defensive duels and Valencia in offensive one's. Same goes for attacking stats, Valencia was far ahead. Like I mentioned earlier, it's a simple case of how you want the team to set-up. If you are not going to expect much of a threat down your right hand side, case in point the Villa game, it makes sense to use Valencia. But if you want some Tactical solidity defensively, Darmian is the way to go. I personally prefer the former, but even then I would prefer someone like Varela being given that responsibility over Valencia. So I am not really watching a different game tbh, especially stats seem to back up what I have been saying all along.
No idea whether he did well or not.
