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2025-26 Performances

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5.8 Season Average Rating
Appearances
34
Goals
12
Assists
4
Yellow cards
4
He does good donkey work. I hope he retains that part of it whilst he plays himself back into form.
 
Not great today but we know he has all the qualities needed, he's just woefully out of form at the mo. He never stops running though - gives his all.
 
Forget this performance and current form, how do people see best version of him at the position he plays for United?

He's not a winger at all. You know he's going to cut inside but even then he does it in slow motion. Maybe he's double guessing himself and if our play is a bit quicker he'll be effective, but I don't see it. He was good in Amorim system when he was the guy getting the chances and had composure and skills to finish them off. Not the case anymore.
 
Borys said:
Forget this performance and current form, how do people see best version of him at the position he plays for United?

He's not a winger at all. You know he's going to cut inside but even then he does it in slow motion. Maybe he's double guessing himself and if our play is a bit quicker he'll be effective, but I don't see it. He was good in Amorim system when he was the guy getting the chances and had composure and skills to finish them off. Not the case anymore.
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He's probably more of a wide forward than a winger. A bit similar to Memphis Depay in a way.

They start from wide but are best in central positions close around the goal. They were never meant to beat full backs and get to the byline.
 
Borys said:
Forget this performance and current form, how do people see best version of him at the position he plays for United?

He's not a winger at all. You know he's going to cut inside but even then he does it in slow motion. Maybe he's double guessing himself and if our play is a bit quicker he'll be effective, but I don't see it. He was good in Amorim system when he was the guy getting the chances and had composure and skills to finish them off. Not the case anymore.
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Been saying it for a while I think he's just competition for Sesko while being solid depth for the front 3 in general. He's out of form obviously but his level is good enough for a depth role, I don't see him as a key player even at his best form for any of the front 3 positions though. Still, you need versatile depth who is capable of playing to a high level so it's not the worst case.
 
When he loses his athletic edge, his overall level drops so drastically. He seems so slow and cumbersome and he doesn't even contribute that much off the ball (when in general he's a fairly hard-working player and a good presser). Amad has been better (even though he has been poor) and should've stayed on the pitch with Mbeumo going off.
 
I think the double trouble with Sesko is underrated. Its just different to a proper winger and at times when its not coming off it can be frustrating, but him making runs off Sesko's flicks and his runs created space to find Sesko in attack

For me they're better together and if we had a winger on the other side in form and good at taking players on solo the team would look better. Sesko and Mbeumo is a bit like how Mbeumo got a lot of his chances last season because Wissa was working defences and a big threat. They both work better with another player to play off and its their first season together
 
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AjaxCunian said:
He's probably more of a wide forward than a winger. A bit similar to Memphis Depay in a way.

They start from wide but are best in central positions close around the goal. They were never meant to beat full backs and get to the byline.
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Depay still is a dangerous player, cut inside and shoot type of wingers are fine, but Mbuemo doesn't pose any threat. He cuts inside and passes back, slows the game down.

He makes some good runs in behind but even then he's easily caught. He also looks slow off the mark what I think is his biggest weakness.
 
Borys said:
Forget this performance and current form, how do people see best version of him at the position he plays for United?

He's not a winger at all. You know he's going to cut inside but even then he does it in slow motion. Maybe he's double guessing himself and if our play is a bit quicker he'll be effective, but I don't see it. He was good in Amorim system when he was the guy getting the chances and had composure and skills to finish them off. Not the case anymore.
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He's perfectly fine in a slightly loopsided 4-2-3-1 as a right-sided wide forward. When he's in form that is.
 
He’s not been great recently, but I remember him pretty much carrying us at points earlier in the season. I’m very confident he’ll come good again next season.
 
He is so out of form that it hurts. The Mbeumo of the first half of the season would have scored two goals today.

He needs a goal to get his mojo back.
 
He’s been poor for a long while now. Not that I want him to get flack, but he definitely goes under the radar compared to poor performances from Amad or Cunha.

Some nice bits of linkup at points at least.
 
He’s lost a yard of pace since AFCON and he still looks like he’s carrying too much timber.
 
He was so good for the first 3 months for us. Desperate for him to get that level of performance back but he’s running out of games for this season. He could really do with a couple of goals before the season ends to lift his confidence going into the off-season.
 
He still looked fast, he pulled away from the defender quite easily with that ball over the top in the second half. Just his touch completely failed him at the important point. Looks rock bottom on confidence, not really sure how to explain what he's turned into. This started before AFCON too.
 
I called out Mbeumo during the honeymoon period when everyone was raving about him because he scored a few goals and still benefited from the element of surprised saying he's a very limited player. Heaven is another utterly disastrous defender. Every time he has the ball, I am on edge. He looks shaky under pressure. Further he reads the game so poorly its infuriating. He is always getting cought with those long balls behind the defense. Clearly not United material but because of positive results people aint seeing it.
 
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He looks to me like a player better suited to a mid to lower table team who get way more space in behind than we do.

Looks lost out on the wing.
 
LukeTheRed said:
He looks to me like a player better suited to a mid to lower table team who get way more space in behind than we do.
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The problem is at the moment he can't even take advantage of situations that are tailor made for him. Him going through clean on goal when put in behind tonight being a perfect example.

He was a clinical finisher up until Feb too and that's gone too.
 
Maluco said:
Slight concern is turning into full blown worry now. He looks awful and completely ineffective. The best thing he did all game was the decoy run for the goal.
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To be fair, if ever you need a pass into your stride it was there. Form could have turned on that moment.

I actually thought he played ok, certainly not bad - obviously needs to do a lot more.
 
I felt 100% sure he’d finish as our top scorer earlier in the season but his form has really dived.
 
While I am slightly happier with his performance against Brentford than a lot of posters, it is now 5 games with 0 goals and 0 assists on the right wing for him. Even though he deserves credit for his part in Sesko's 2nd goal. It wasnt a goal and it wasnt an assist... And 0 in 5 from an off the ball player is a bad run
 
currently he reminds me of tevez (when first arrived) or the rare times Rooney went of the boil. You knew something was going to happen you didn’t know when, it was nearly more worry for us fans more than them, they would get a deflected goal then go on a silly scoring spree. His work rate is unreal and even without goals he takes one some times two defenders out of their “plan” thru fear
 
Definitely has fallen off quite a bit in recent weeks. Some of his touches last night were really poor. Would like to see him snap this slump before the end of the season and bring some positivity into next season.
 
Fortitude said:
He’s a lot worse as an actual footballer than I had imagined. Has his uses, but play has to be streamlined and specific for him to prosper. Left to his own devices, and having to beat men whilst being dynamic and clever and he doesn’t look a United winger.

If we ever get back to being Manchester United again, he’ll be benched and eventually moved on. Proper bridge player.
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DWelbz19 said:
The first touch has disintegrated. I think you can carry a player being weak at the basics of general play if they’re a killer with the fundamentals (first touch, final ball, shooting technique). For a very short while, it looked like Mbeumo had that. Our own mini-Salah with far less quality.

The bottom level of his performances kind of make it so that he has to be getting 25+ G/A a season at a minimum for the juice to be worth the squeeze.
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I meant to quote you two a while ago. I'm actually surprised you thought his first touch had "disintegrated", Welbz, as you're usually good at judging technical quality.

I got stick for it but as I've said after watching his first few games for us, he was never good from a technical POV. His first touch was always inconsistent, but because he'd occasionally pull out a nice one people treated him like Berbatov.

I posted this a while back:

Yagami said:
I still don't get where this idea that he's a tidy player comes from. He's been sloppy since he arrived.

I actually looked at his stats from last season and, out of the whole premier league, he was 3rd in inaccurate short passes with 257. Only Bruno and Salah were above him. He was also 3rd in unsuccessful touches with Salah and Villa's Morgan Rogers above him.

Even on the opening day against Arsenal. Everyone loved that performance but I just had a look and only Dorgu gave the ball away more than him when you combine "unsuccessful touches" and "dispossessed". That's including the Arsenal players who struggled to string passes together that game.
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So, even last season he was losing the ball cheaply on a regular basis so it's not just about him settling in here. This is the player he's always been.

Right now, he's 6th in the league for "unsuccessful touches". That's out of everyone, not just attackers.

In terms of us, he's obviously top with 86 unsuccessful touches. 2nd is Cunha with 74. 3rd is a massive drop off in Amad with 41!

If we want to get back to the top, we cannot afford to start such a technically poor player. This isn't like Chicharito who I don't think was even this bad + guaranteed you around 20 goals a season.
 
I think going away for AFCON has weirdly brought on his second season syndrome earlier than expected.
 
He's going through a rough patch but im sure he will turn it around. He's making the right runs, and you can't fault him for effort, his touch has been off and also a bit unlucky.
 
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