[Lewnited]

He's been an absolute lottery with the ball at his feet but defensively he is the real deal. In his appearances so far he's been forcing turnovers for the opposition in situations where really we have no right to win the ball back.
If he can eliminate the stupid errors with the ball at his feet and keep it simple, he'll be so important for us this season.

 

[Cassidy]

He's been an absolute lottery with the ball at his feet but defensively he is the real deal. In his appearances so far he's been forcing turnovers for the opposition in situations where really we have no right to win the ball back.
If he can eliminate the stupid errors with the ball at his feet and keep it simple, he'll be so important for us this season.

He doesn’t need to keep it simple. Hes an asset on the ball. He just needs to get used to the pace of the PL and find his rhythm which he will. Eriksen made as many mistakes as him with the ball today

 

[roonster09]

I thought apart from losing the ball for their goal he had very good game. His passing is very good and defensively he is great, wins most of the tackles and also reads the game so well.

There were sloppy moments too where he miskicked the ball, maybe because he was tired but the way he was picking passes was very good. I hope he plays most games as he should get used to the speed of the game but signs are very promising.

 

[Volumiza]

His sharpness will come and, when it does, he'll be a monster for us. Turns play around so quickly, that was some way to recover from a mistake yesterday, great tackle, awesome pass and Ronaldo obliged with a great finish. More of that please.

Clearly still getting to grips with the pace and demands of our game but you can see he's quality.

 

[Ayoba]

It's just match fitness, which will come as he plays more games. Happened to me too recently, I was out of action for a few weeks in our dads 8 a side weekly game due to injury. My touch was all over the place, misplayed passes etc. After a few games, I am still a shithouse player, probably because i'm 36 and fat, but my touch got better.

 

[TheReligion]

It's just match fitness, which will come as he plays more games. Happened to me too recently, I was out of action for a few weeks in our dads 8 a side weekly game due to injury. My touch was all over the place, misplayed passes etc. After a few games, I am still a shithouse player, probably because i'm 36 and fat, but my touch got better.

The new system is also playing a part too.

Your Dad told me you’re struggling with the high press triggers.

 

[JeffFromHK]

One thing he can do which McTominay can't is releasing the ball quickly. McTominay is the midfield version of Maguire who loves hoarding the ball with 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th touches before releasing the ball, which kills the tempo of the build up and fluidity of our play.

 

[RopersReturn]

Thought Casemiro played well yesterday, we looked less vulnerable in our half and were able to move the ball around a lot more accurately and quicker than when McTominay’s in the role.

 

[#07]

Casemiro got a wake up call to the speed of the Premier League early on. However, after that he grew into the game steadily. Became the decisive factor more and more. Should've scored a diving header. Set up the equaliser. Gave us physicality and passing at #6, which we don't get from McFred. Once he properly adjusts to English football, Casemiro is going to be massive for us.

 

[Adisa]

You don't play in Real Madrid's first XI for 10 yeaes, winning 5 CL titles without knowing how to pass.
The idea he was rerrible on the ball was always nonsense. He is getting better and better and it won't take much for him to displace McSauce.

 

[Idxomer]

He attempted 70 passes and while he obviously needs to improve his accuracy, that should be the standard for a United midfielder.

 

[moses]

One thing he can do which McTominay can't is releasing the ball quickly. McTominay is the midfield version of Maguire who loves hoarding the ball with 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th touches before releasing the ball, which kills the tempo of the build up and fluidity of our play.

Yes, but it's not always about speed. The other thing he can do is hold on to the ball for a few seconds if necessary to change the tempo and give us control of the ball with players in the right position.

 

[giorno]

If he can eliminate the stupid errors with the ball at his feet and keep it simple, he'll be so important for us this season.

Nope. Those will keep happening. Just not so often that it will take away from all the good stuff he does. Might need a period of adjustment to PL refs, in Spain he often tried to get out of trouble by winning fouls which might not be called in england

 

[elmo]

He was clearly fouled in the build up to Iwobi's goal imo.

Onana got the ball but before that his left leg had nudged into Casemiro's right thigh.

Let's face it, due to the quality of the goal and it being Everton at home against us there was no way on earth that was getting ruled out.

That’s what I thought too. It it happened at Old Trafford, there’s no way VAR wouldn’t say it’s a foul.

 

[pseudo_canadian]

It's just match fitness, which will come as he plays more games. Happened to me too recently, I was out of action for a few weeks in our dads 8 a side weekly game due to injury. My touch was all over the place, misplayed passes etc. After a few games, I am still a shithouse player, probably because i'm 36 and fat, but my touch got better.

 

[RuudTom83]

Football today it far too focused on stats for my liking...every time a pass is intercepted or doesn't reach the target is "urgh given the ball away" whereas I just look at it as part of the game.

Casemiro had some lovely moments yesterday and those far outweigh the couple of times Everton won the ball back from him.

Will be very interesting to see him after a run of 10 full 90-minute games.

 

[SadlerMUFC]

Needs to stop causing goals. Everyone has turnovers in a match. It just seems that whenever he does it leads to a goal or a very good scoring chance. I'm sure he will be great though. He is the type of player I've been wanting ever since Carrick retired. Now we just need a youngster to study under him. Unfortunately the one that we had played for Everton yesterday (and looked good too)...

 

[Buster15]

You don't play in Real Madrid's first XI for 10 yeaes, winning 5 CL titles without knowing how to pass.
The idea he was rerrible on the ball was always nonsense. He is getting better and better and it won't take much for him to displace McSauce.

Exactly right. To my mind, he is what we have needed for some time. A specialist midfielder who can both win the ball back and distribute it quickly and accurately.
Yes of course it is quite a change from the Spanish league and he is finding that out. But there is no doubt that he is the real deal.

 

[Remember the geese]

Not he, but we (the team) need a Modric. It's about the total composition of the team.

I think Kobbie Mainoo could be the one.

 

[Adam-Utd]

Needs to stop causing goals. Everyone has turnovers in a match. It just seems that whenever he does it leads to a goal or a very good scoring chance. I'm sure he will be great though. He is the type of player I've been wanting ever since Carrick retired. Now we just need a youngster to study under him. Unfortunately the one that we had played for Everton yesterday (and looked good too)...

Can't really blame him for the first goal. He got passed the ball 5 yards away with a giant of a midfielder right up his ass. He got tackled, it happens.

From that point they get a lucky deflection with the ball across the box that falls to Iwobi, and he scores a 1 in 1000 wonder strike.

 

[mu4c_20le]

Casemiro to Ronaldo is a connection I could get used to. Think we'll be seeing it a few more times this year.

 

[Adnan]

I think Kobbie Mainoo could be the one.

I agree he could be the answer and he definitely fits the profile along with Hannibal Mejbri. But I'd like to see us sign a more experienced player for the role in the short-term with the likes of Hannibal, Mainoo and possibly Iqbal challenging Eriksen and Bruno for a place in the team.

I think we're crying out for a deep-roaming creative midfielder who has the ability to carry the ball and evade pressure along with having the ability to exhibit a class and guile in possession which is clearly missing right now.

 

[Baneofthegame]

I thought apart from losing the ball for their goal he had very good game. His passing is very good and defensively he is great, wins most of the tackles and also reads the game so well.

There were sloppy moments too where he miskicked the ball, maybe because he was tired but the way he was picking passes was very good. I hope he plays most games as he should get used to the speed of the game but signs are very promising.

This was basically how I felt he played yesterday, maybe I watched a different game from everyone else.

 

[11101]

Good performance and great timing, now Ten Hag can see he is ready and he will start games from now on. The good outweighs the bad. We have plenty of midfielders who can lose the ball and give away a goal but not many who can play those passes he was pinging around.

 

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[Pogue Mahone]

Just looking at his stats and there’s some good stuff…

20 pressures vs 9 from Bruno and 3 from Eriksen - 1st in the team by a margin
4 tackles - 1st
2 blocks - 2nd=
3 aerial duels won - 2nd=

…mixed with some not so good stuff.

78% pass completion is pretty terrible for a player in his position. Even Bruno passed the ball more accurately (82%) and having a DM whose passing is more careless than Bruno’s is not good at all.

Mind you, McT racked up a mind-blowing 50% pass completion. Finding a team mate with a grand total of 1 pass during his 10 minutes on the pitch.

 

[tenpoless]

I never get the players who smashes the ground after fecking up a chance. He did it.

Ground = solid
Hand smashes ground = hand hurts

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I never get the players who smashes the ground after fecking up a chance. He did it.

Ground = solid
Hand smashes ground = hand hurts

Dude, it’s made out of grass.

 

[TheReligion]

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He has a chubby face but I’m sure there’s a pic going round of him being pretty ripped

 

[noodlehair]

Just looking at his stats and there’s some good stuff…

20 pressures vs 9 from Bruno and 3 from Eriksen - 1st in the team by a margin
4 tackles - 1st
2 blocks - 2nd=
3 aerial duels won - 2nd=

…mixed with some not so good stuff.

78% pass completion is pretty terrible for a player in his position. Even Bruno passed the ball more accurately (82%) and having a DM whose passing is more careless than Bruno’s is not good at all.

Mind you, McT racked up a mind-blowing 50% pass completion. Finding a team mate with a grand total of 1 pass during his 10 minutes on the pitch.

Surprised at the low pass completion tbh, but part of what impressed me yesterday was the type and speed of the passes he was playing. All one or two touch with very little hesitating or making his mind up in between. Thought the most noticeable thing about him in the team was that it sped our tempo up considerably, even if some of the actual passing was, we'll...weird.

But someone who can play a ball forwards from midfield with their first touch is a considerable improvement on Mctominay doing his trademark pivot then looking up to think about where to pass it, or Matic walking half way to where he wants to pass it before actually passing it there. It meant we could actually control the game, for 45 minutes at least.

Yesterday was the first time I've been genuinely impressed by him so hopefully just needed a bit of time to get himself up to speed

 

[NewYorkRed]

Showing signs of his class. He’s the type of player that can tranform this team once he gets up to speed. We need to keep playing him and let the rust come off.

 

[Solius]

Guy dropped a 2/10 and 10/10 at the same time.

 

[Son]

I agree he could be the answer and he definitely fits the profile along with Hannibal Mejbri. But I'd like to see us sign a more experienced player for the role in the short-term with the likes of Hannibal, Mainoo and possibly Iqbal challenging Eriksen and Bruno for a place in the team.

I think we're crying out for a deep-roaming creative midfielder who has the ability to carry the ball and evade pressure along with having the ability to exhibit a class and guile in possession which is clearly missing right now.

The manager probably agrees as De Jong is his wet dream.

 

[RopersReturn]

Casemiro to Ronaldo is a connection I could get used to. Think we'll be seeing it a few more times this year.

Both ex Real Madrid, so likely to have known one another prior to being signed for Utd.

 

[Solius]

Both ex Real Madrid, so likely to have known one another prior to being signed for Utd.

Just likely?

 

[arthurka]

Guy dropped a 2/10 and 10/10 at the same time.

My feeling exactly

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Surprised at the low pass completion tbh, but part of what impressed me yesterday was the type and speed of the passes he was playing. All one or two touch with very little hesitating or making his mind up in between. Thought the most noticeable thing about him in the team was that it sped our tempo up considerably, even if some of the actual passing was, we'll...weird.

But someone who can play a ball forwards from midfield with their first touch is a considerable improvement on Mctominay doing his trademark pivot then looking up to think about where to pass it, or Matic walking half way to where he wants to pass it before actually passing it there. It meant we could actually control the game, for 45 minutes at least.

Yesterday was the first time I've been genuinely impressed by him so hopefully just needed a bit of time to get himself up to speed

Yeah, the ability of both him and Martinez to ping accurate first time passes is a breath of fresh air after years of watching indecisive twats dilly dally on the ball (although Pogba was more trying to showing off than being indecisive)

 

[noodlehair]

Yeah, the ability of both him and Martinez to ping accurate first time passes is a breath of fresh air after years of watching indecisive twats dilly dally on the ball (although Pogba was more trying to showing off than being indecisive)

I'd put Eriksen in that category too. Don't think he's been as good the last few games, but you just never see him standing on the ball thinking about what to do with it, or taking 2-3 touches to set himself for a pass. It's been so long since we've had players who can do these things it actually feels like a massive evolution. Even though half the teams in the league routinely have players who do this as standard.

 

[roonster09]

Mind you, McT racked up a mind-blowing 50% pass completion. Finding a team mate with a grand total of 1 pass during his 10 minutes on the pitch

That's terrible

Casemiro's passes per game is very good, something that McT can't offer. McT did well tbf but his limitations are very obvious.

 

[Regulus Arcturus Black]

78% pass completion is pretty terrible for a player in his position.

https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1...er-League-2022-2023-Everton-Manchester-United

80% according to whoscored. First PL start away from home, not even slightly worried about that stat.