Challenging Blind for winner of the worst performance of the season. He's been shocking.
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He's poor defensively.
Should have never backed off Coutinho.
Should have never backed off Coutinho.
He's been thrown into the deep end lately, can't be surprised when that happens.
So nobody is going to mention how his positional game is non existent and his defense on Coutinho was horrendous??
Hadn't had a bad game yet. Till now. Shame.
Another Rafael.
People get all starry-eyed at his pace and willingness to overlap, ignoring that he can't defend for shit.
People get all starry-eyed at his pace and willingness to overlap, ignoring that he can't defend for shit.
Had me worried in the first twenty minutes and hasn't settled at all
What do we even teach our guys at the acedemy. That is a textbook mistake, you never stand square against your attacker.
That was horrid
Would do better if Lingard actually helped him (in attack AND in defense).
No need to go over the top with your judgment. You are taking the criticality of the goal into account. He's been decent cover during and injury-riddled period.
Midfield was way too high considering it was a pass from Mignolet to Can to Coutinho. United were way too open and Coutinho had options to go either left or right because there was no one close to Varela and Varela expected him to go right and shoot.
They have both been terrible all evening. Neither should be playing for us. What a damning indictment on Darmian that Varela is keeping him out of the team.
Been saying this for awhile now. I do admire how great he is going forward, he contributed to a couple of goals during his time here due to that but when you partner him with someone other than Lingard, his defensive incapabilities are exposed.
He really hasn't had a good game. Seems to be absent when Liverpool go down their left and the one time he is there, he runs away from the ball. 
Rafa was much better. At his best Rafa kept the likes of Bale and Hazard quiet. Varela isn't half the defender. Enthusiasm can't cover for his limited defensive ability.
Gets square in front of Coutino, after that he's got no influence on which way Coutino will go. He's also too flat footed to react when Coutino decides to attack. Horrible positioning.
Academy? He signed for us 2 years ago as a 20 year old and spent a year of that time at Real Madrid B.
He's been fine apart from the goal. He won't be the first or last fullback to get rinsed by Coutinho.
Having a poor game. Guess it happens though, he's generally not been too bad for us so far. Hopefully it's a learning curve for him.
It looks more like a lack of experience, and, being completely isolated because of no support from his wide man than anything else.
The kid is young and out of his depth tonight, but with that being the case, why has the manager kept him on the pitch? He looked shaky for a good portion of the half, other managers would've pulled him for that, especially so with how big a game this is.
The kid is young and out of his depth tonight, but with that being the case, why has the manager kept him on the pitch? He looked shaky for a good portion of the half, other managers would've pulled him for that, especially so with how big a game this is.
Poor performance but for the goal, as bad as he was he also had zero coverage.
True. Although I think people forget with Rafael how long he'd been there, and that he was actually fairly experienced for us. I mean, he'd been playing for us for a number of seasons by the time he left, and would've probably been into 200 games had it not been for injuries.
He did start a lot younger than Varela though, who I think is going to have to learn from the rougher parts of his game quite quickly in order to have a long-term chance here.
Very poor half, and quite terrible for the goal.
Oh well, he'll be better.
Oh well, he'll be better.
Oh he's shit now because of that mistake? Gotcha.
Indeed. As we were on at least a couple of occasions before, which we weren't punished for - through pure luck more than anything.
The kid should've done better, fair enough, but it's more than him. If he commits himself there and fails to make the challenge count, there's zero cover. Nobody reads it - and then DDG doesn't cover himself in glory either.
Rafael is in a different class to Varela. He's better than Valencia, Darmian and anyone else we have as well, yet we sold him.
What a stupid nitpicking response. Does that excuse from not knowing the basics of defending?
I blame van Gaal. This was a accident waiting to happen and our idiot manager didn't see it. Shameful
feck off LvG for subbing him off at halftime after he made a mistake.
I hate the way he deals with some players.
I hate the way he deals with some players.
He could have done better but so could other people up higher and De Gea in goal. De Gea didn't close the goal well enough, Coutinho could even have put it past him at the near post by the ground. I'm not gonna hold that against Dave though any more than that goal against Varela. Liverpool had plenty of chances before the goal without those two making a mistake.
Also true
Nobody is saying that, rather that they have finally seen how nonexistent he is defensively. Nice try though.
I just think it's daft blaming the academy for a play that has had... nothing to do with the academy.
I hope this doesn't mean he spends ages out of the team, but I expect it probably will.
As much as I don't like him, I don't see the problem with this. Not even remotely. If he feels like Varela has been exposed (which many will agree with), then it makes perfect sense to take him off, and replace him with someone else. I expect people would've been moaning after long if Varela had been left on. And we'd been praising a better manager for his decisiveness.
Darmian should have played today
He'll never play for United again.
Yeah that's what a bad half of football does, apparently it erases everyone you've done before it.
The classic locking the stable door after the horse has bolted!
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