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2025-26 Performances


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5.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
29
Clean sheets
5
Goals
0
Assists
1
Yellow cards
3
It's easy to forget what a truly excellent footballer this bloke is. He also looked pretty robust too which is good to see.

His instant first touch makes everything else so much easier.
 
It's easy to forget what a truly excellent footballer this bloke is. He also looked pretty robust too which is good to see.

His instant first touch makes everything else so much easier.

Yeah! I've been skeptical of Shaw for a while now, mostly due to him being either injured or visibly unfit. Yesterday he was truly sublime. As good on the ball as always, but he was much more aggressive than I've seen from him, and slightly better in the air - showed some real speed when Saka broke through and easily dealt with it - oh, and that shoulder barge to Saka that sent him flying and just nicking the ball off him was glorious.
 
Wonder who Amorim would prefer assuming both Martinez and Shaw are fit. Martinez has amazing vision for a CB and is better in the air but Shaw does appear to dovetail well with the LWB when we have more time on the ball.

Shaw will be such a try-hard this season though - he's fighting for his next big contract and this team does appear to play good enough football for him not to just phone it in.
 
He was quite good, but I hope he is more decisive in terms of his forward passing and try to thread it through as much as possible, because he is so good at it.
 
Thought he was excellent yesterday, as were most of our players really (well, at least good bar a couple). My main gripe was with some of the positioning and Bayindir's passes to him after goal kicks. He tended to receive the ball in a way where his only option was to always go back to Altay. I think more at fault of the goalkeeper, but it just looked awkward all the time as Shaw was pressed and couldn't let the ball run across him to progress it forward to Dorgu. Only a small detail though.
 
When fit he's an excellent footballer. But having barely played for 2 years and the shit he pulled going to the Euros when he shouldn't have should have been the end of his United career.
 
He just reels us back in, doesn't he. Brilliant to watch when fit and firing. So smart on the ball too.

I remember one play where he was kinda stuck, he just calmly pulls the ball back and outside foot passes it perfectly to Case. Good decision to play him over Heaven for this game. Saka barely had a sniff too.
 
He's a good player when fit and I think Neville made a good point on his podcast that you looked far more comfortable when he was at LCB and Yoro was RCB and De Ligt in the middle than when he came off and positions changed at the back. It's crucial that you maintain the fitness of him or Martinez through the season so that you have a comfortable LCB.
 
Wonder who Amorim would prefer assuming both Martinez and Shaw are fit. Martinez has amazing vision for a CB and is better in the air but Shaw does appear to dovetail well with the LWB when we have more time on the ball.

Shaw will be such a try-hard this season though - he's fighting for his next big contract and this team does appear to play good enough football for him not to just phone it in.
Martinez will have a long way to return from the ACL injury. It's a physical and psychological battle.
 
Don’t think anyone doubts Shaws footballing ability, it’s whether he can stay fit for a long enough period of time.
 
All I’m hoping is that he stays fit long enough for Martinez to come back. If he’s still fit and playing well, then we can worry about who plays and who doesn’t. It feels more likely we’ll have a situation where both are out injured rather than both be fighting fit.
 
It's easy to forget what a truly excellent footballer this bloke is. He also looked pretty robust too which is good to see.

His instant first touch makes everything else so much easier.
He is always one of the most technically gifted player in the squad since the moment he arrived. His injury record is the problem never his ability.
 
Excellent yesterday. if he could just stay fit, a brilliant option at LCB especially in big games. Having a flier like Dorgu outside him made the left side solid.
 
Don’t think anyone doubts Shaws footballing ability, it’s whether he can stay fit for a long enough period of time.
Think there's been plenty of them throughout the years which I think is crazy. Sure he's had bad spells in between injuries, but I think ability wise he is right up there with the best. Without that leg break I think we would be talking about the best English fullback maybe ever.
 
I dont think he has it in him to be a LB or LWB nowadays, but LCB should be fine. He played well, the role suits him. Hope he can stay injury free, and us playing once a week most of the time should help him.
 
Was rock solid yesterday, completely shut Arsenal attack, also nicely combined with Dorgu.
 
He is always one of the most technically gifted player in the squad since the moment he arrived. His injury record is the problem never his ability.
Intensity and aggression has been two areas of concern with him, but yesterday he was perhaps more aggressive than I've ever seen him, and when Saka came in behind him once, he used his speed to catch up with him in a split second - in the past, I felt he could easily have let De Ligt deal with that and tucked in himself. Basically, he excerted himsel much more than he normally does.
 
Very good yesterday. That's how I expected him to play in that role last season but for whatever reason, it just didn't click.

Hopefully after a pre-season he'll look a lot better for us again.
 
He's a good player when fit and I think Neville made a good point on his podcast that you looked far more comfortable when he was at LCB and Yoro was RCB and De Ligt in the middle than when he came off and positions changed at the back. It's crucial that you maintain the fitness of him or Martinez through the season so that you have a comfortable LCB.
We also have Ayden Heaven who looks promising in that role, though still very young.

Mazraoui and Yoro are comfortable on both sides too. But you're right that we lost some of our rhythm when Maguire came on - I don't like seeing de Ligt playing as one of the wide CBs.
 
We also have Ayden Heaven who looks promising in that role, though still very young.

Mazraoui and Yoro are comfortable on both sides too. But you're right that we lost some of our rhythm when Maguire came on - I don't like seeing de Ligt playing as one of the wide CBs.
Heaven is promising but he's a long way off what Martinez or Shaw can provide. One day, he's really young though and isn't that player now.
 
Heaven is promising but he's a long way off what Martinez or Shaw can provide. One day, he's really young though and isn't that player now.
Maybe not on a consistent basis but we've already seen Heaven is capable of playing that role at a good level. Shaw and Martinez are both more experienced and technically superior but Heaven has is more athletic than both and has the build to be successful in that position, not too dissimilar to Yoro. He's a nice option to have there.
 
Maybe not on a consistent basis but we've already seen Heaven is capable of playing that role at a good level. Shaw and Martinez are both more experienced and technically superior but Heaven has is more athletic than both and has the build to be successful in that position, not too dissimilar to Yoro. He's a nice option to have there.
He does but we lose a ton on the ball. His passing isn't particularly progressive or creative yet, and that position demands a lot of that. Even Yoro needs to improve on that side of the game, as Mazraoui offers a lot more on the ball currently as a RCB (on the ball). Overall Yoro is class but need him to be braver with his passing.
 
He does but we lose a ton on the ball. His passing isn't particularly progressive or creative yet, and that position demands a lot of that. Even Yoro needs to improve on that side of the game, as Mazraoui offers a lot more on the ball currently as a RCB (on the ball). Overall Yoro is class but need him to be braver with his passing.
Agreed on the passing part with Shaw and Martinez relative to Heaven, although that can develop with time. Heaven was a midfielder converted to CB so you'd hope he'll be fine with that eventually.

I think Yoro's already pretty good on that side of the game, I don't think there's too much of a disparity between him and Mazraoui there. Yoro's also very good at ball carrying.

Maybe Amorim doesn't agree but I would also expect there to be far more onus on the midfielders to take on some of these responsibilities in build up. It's one of the things I really don't like about this system, actually.
 
Agreed on the passing part with Shaw and Martinez relative to Heaven, although that can develop with time. Heaven was a midfielder converted to CB so you'd hope he'll be fine with that eventually.

I think Yoro's already pretty good on that side of the game, I don't think there's too much of a disparity between him and Mazraoui there. Yoro's also very good at ball carrying.

Maybe Amorim doesn't agree but I would also expect there to be far more onus on the midfielders to take on some of these responsibilities in build up. It's one of the things I really don't like about this system, actually.
Oh for sure, he's got lots of room to grow and he's only just stepping into professional football. Just always strongly disagreed with the people saying heaven will take Shaw or Martinez's place... He's years away from that. Good to have as an emergency cover, but unlikely he'll play much this season.
 
If he can remain fit, he's the de facto choice for that LCB; I love Martinez, but Shaw is the better footballer.
 
Thought that moment when Shaw made the underlapping run in front of Dorgu was great - I'm hoping to see a lot more of this kind of movement from the right and left centre backs this season, and Shaw is tailor-made for delivering a good cutback from those areas. Not to mention, he looked defensively solid as well, nothing like the liability he seemed at times when he returned from injury late last season.
 
If he can remain fit, he's the de facto choice for that LCB; I love Martinez, but Shaw is the better footballer.
Good to have a choice between shaw, martinez and heaven. All 3 are very solid. Just ashame 2 are prone to injuries.
 
World cup year, I said before the season started, watch him become fully fit for most if not all of the season ....

This is what he does.
 
World cup year, I said before the season started, watch him become fully fit for most if not all of the season ....

This is what he does.
He has two years left on his contract. Even if he gives us one full season out of the two then it would be one more than anyone expected from the non-tournament year Phil Jones.
 
Always thought he only has 1 year left on his fat contract. That's a nice headache to have. Wonder if INEOS will look to sell or keep if he has a good season.