I wasn't just referring to stats I meant even just a vaguely sensible description of what he has been good at. You referenced him getting into good goalscoring positions and having a great strike. The fact that was all you can come up with doesn't seem to indicate he is having a particularly good season. Especially as the idea he has a great strike on him isn't really true, he takes huge numbers of shots and the majority are terrible. Occasionally one will go in but it's a poor return for the amount of shots he takes, I would suggest your average pl centre back could score as regularly if given the same chances.
On assists he has two so far I think so would suggest that isn't enough
Anthony is a different kind of wide-player to the old-school wingers we have become used to at United.
Of course his numbers for goals/assists could improve but the reason I dismiss 'assists' as a metric (or don't put much weight behind it) is because an 'assist' is just the last player to touch the ball before a teammate scores a goal, it doesn't tell the story of how many goals players help create with other actions.
Extreme example but a player could run 60 yards, beat eight players, roll it sideways to a player who miscues a shot into the path of the goalscorer and it's THAT player then who gets the assist.
When I watch Anthony I see loads of good qualities. He is skilful, the opposition usually double-up or at least commit a player to mark him tightly, he works hard, he is tenacious, he can play in tight areas. Plus, for all the criticisms of his output, the goals he has scored have tended to be important goals. Let's say he had padded out his eight goals with a few tap-ins in games we had won easily...suddenly he's into double-figures and people aren't so quick to write him off based on one metric.
He's still young and learning but I have seen a big improvement in the last 3-months and I personally think the goals and assists will come in time, and with a functioning CF