He did ok, but the usual hate squad will never admit that. You'll just have to watch a rerun of the match and make your own mind up.
Ye ok. Thanks, mate.
Yeah, that was a new low. Really sloppy play but the reaction to it was genuinely pathetic. I think he had a decent game all in all and its been the same in most of his recent appearances but he is a seriously flawed player and I'm not sure I see him getting rid of those flaws.
Standard Fellaini. A few nice pieces of play. Lost possession not far from our box. A couple of elbows/arms that could easily have earned him a booking. Most of his passing was decent.
Nah, at least Fellaini has some uses, even if they're completely unsuited to our team. Anderson's shown himself to just be completely hopeless. Although it'd probably be better to have neither of them.
He has the Gattuso efect on him. Referees somehow don't book/send off him regardless what he does. It was the same on Everton, I don't remember him getting ever send off and I don't think that he was booked that often, despite being the player who made most fouls on the league and despite giving daily elbows for free.
People seem to have exceptionally low standards when it comes to him. He gets praised for making 5 yard passes and for making simple forward passes.
good advice. Btw imo his performance was average,certainly not as bad as some ppl are putting it on here. Anyway that s the beauty of football, different people with different opinions....as long as we tolerate each other
Amazing aint it?
Exactly. For £27.5 million it's poor.
He was practicing for next Wednesday. Clearly the way he let them equalise on Tuesday wasn't easy enough...
If you look at his supporters in this thread and see what positives they find in his best games for us, it's always stuff like "added steel", "always looked for the forward pass", "broke up play" or "kept it tidy" and these are games against shit opposition where the team has largely been on top. I don't ever see what he's going to bring that we actually needed, it's not like we were losing 6 points to West Ham every season. I guess we needed a deputy for Carrick but Fletcher's done a better job than him.
Our midfield has missed somebody elbowing people? No. We've missed somebody who is a good tackler, a hard worker and somebody who won't take no shit. Fellaini is a bit lazy, sure he tries but he's not very intelligent with his work rate, in that he doesn't do it in good positions, rather him always being a few steps behind the game and running to get back into position. A few times recently he's just watched his man run unopposed too. He's not a good tackler though. He's clumsy and always fouls the opposition rather then actually get the ball from them. Fletcher is good and smart defensively. Fellaini, is not.
No, not explicitly smashing people with his elbows. But I don't think that sort of thing is hugely negative while he gets away with it. I agree about his tracking off-the-ball runners though, it cost us against Bayern and it must improve. Hopefully it improves the more he plays in the middle of the park. It's easy to forget that he's only played around 15 games there in what is now two full seasons. It should improve.
No it hasn't and it's a terribly inaccurate cliché. If anything, we've been better when we rely on positional sense and quick passing centre-field. What exactly are we suppose to gain, that we've been missing, by making nonsensical sculptures of the opponents' faces?
I'd argue we've missed aggression in there, too. The elbows aren't necessarily controlled aggression, but it's all part of his game like it was with many other players. I just can't really understand why people get all upset over it. If he puts one on Ribery next week and it bothers his game then I'm all for it, as long as he gets away with it. All part of the risk.
if he puts one on ribery (and manages to get away with it) it ll be nice.
His defensive side of the game has certainly improved (although he still somehow manages to lose headers against people half his size) but he still is bad and not very careful on the ball. He made today two mistakes which could have cost us against a better opponent, and actually I was a bit irritated how he didn't run when Cisse get the ball out of him and then made a shot on the goal.
I don't think they are intentional too (or at-least most of them). It is similar to Van Persie but Fellaini is bigger than him which makes his elbow hit other players in their head instead of their chest.
Some aggression, sure. But flaying elbows (intentionally or not) will inevitably cause the team issues in the form of playing with one man less. With that in mind, it's easy to understand why people are getting upset about it. It's not hard to eradicate, much like diving, and we are better off without it.
Erm Gattuso effect? Gattuso got sent off 4 times in his career which are nothing compared to other players in his role ( De Rossi (7), Viera (9) and Keane (11)).
I actually had to search this up to believe it, would never have predicted that! Although when you look at the number of yellow cards...
