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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 18
- Clean sheets
- 5
- Goals
- 0
- Assists
- 0
- Yellow cards
- 2
I expect you'll see time at CB before he will.
I never thought his passing was good enough to make our midfield, it's such a difficult area to play in. Would be interesting to see him as a DM though, to see if he has the speed of play required.
he shows the same quality as our other CB's. He manages to be fit for 50% of our games.
Seriously, is he out for 3 weeks? as the Mirror reports, or is this us protecting him from burn out given the international call-up?
Ah feck. Just when things getting interesting to see academy product in the main team.
So we've gone through three first team centre backs (Smalling, Evans, Jones), and now two of the u21 lads (Blackett, McNair).
Assuming no one gets fit in the next two weeks it will be Thorpe starting at the back, and I'm wondering who we're going to chuck on when he gets ruled out for a month after being bitten by a dog.
Assuming no one gets fit in the next two weeks it will be Thorpe starting at the back, and I'm wondering who we're going to chuck on when he gets ruled out for a month after being bitten by a dog.
If you watch the match closely, you can see the moment when he gets injured. I noticed it at the time. Because it happened so late in the game and we had already used our 3 subs, he chose to stay on.
How many hamstring injuries since the last 3-4 years ? Our players have weak legs ? Our warm up is shit ?
Honestly speaking we could have a hundred CBs but with this curse-like phenomenon we'll still find ourselves without a fit CB pairing for the majority of our games. Strange and infuriating.
Alright WillieGet over yourself.
Don't accuse me of other members thank you.
Stop being a WUM, it's making you look like an idiot.
Man City 1:0 Man Utd
Apart from Toure beating him for that one chance, I thought he did very well.
I thought he did better than both Rojo and Smalling. I'm convinced he can become a good defender for us in the long run.
Showed a lot of composure and did well again. McNair's performances have been promising, give him his chance to play a few games.
Agreed and was playing out of position (he plays center right normally) plus back from an injury and thrown in to a team with ten men at an away derby. With no Smalling, Jones and highly likely, no Rojo. Will be starting next week.
The lad did well when he came on. Fair play.
On the ball he's better than all of them, need to be more aggressive on defending though.
McNair-Blackett for next week?Sounds like the only CB partnership we haven't seen this season...
McNair-Blackett for next week?Sounds like the only CB partnership we haven't seen this season...
Promote him to the first team. Looks far more assured on the ball then any other of our defender.
Looked good today.
Should have been tighter on Aguero on the goal though if i am nitpicking.
Should have been tighter on Aguero on the goal though if i am nitpicking.
This guy right now is our best central defender, seems a lot more assured than the others that's for sure.
He is definitely starting next game and should keep getting more chances. Very impressed by him so far.
Considering our lack of available center backs he's going to get a run of games here. I think he could really nail down a spot if he keeps performing like he has been.
I'm struggling to think of a centre half having a better start to their time in the United team, nevermind one thrown in at the deep end from the youth team.
feck all our CB's.
Should be first choice from now on. He's played in 2 games where we've been under huge pressure when down to 10 and looked very composed.
Should be first choice from now on. He's played in 2 games where we've been under huge pressure when down to 10 and looked very composed.
It's not that hard to be fair.
Confident. Good on the ball. Reads the game well and isn't a slouch.
Should be starting. He's good enough.
Should be starting. He's good enough.
Coming into a derby when we are down to ten men and playing with such composure is a real credit to him, nailed on to start next week.
Was excellent before the injury and performed admirably today, despite being thrown into the fire. Impresses with every single appearance. Hope he makes the best of this latest chance.
I think he's better than Rojo. He actually is composed. He's also much better than Blackett IMO from what I've seen of the two. He doesn't worry me at all when he plays.
He was to blame for us conceding the goal and lost Toure a few times so lets not get carried away with that cameo performance.
The only CB in the team that can be relied on. That's saying a lot for a 19 year old and the overall state of our back four.
Agree with the calls for him to be starting games, looks far more mature than his years, his composure is great.
I thought he was poor (relative to a first team player, obviously not relative to a reserve team player). I noticed 3 clear errors from him. Should have been tighter on Aguero when he scored. Twice lost Yaya Toure.
Of course Smalling and Rojo were even worse. But Carrick seemed better.
Of course Smalling and Rojo were even worse. But Carrick seemed better.
The cafe hates pretty much every player but this guy it seems. He didn't do as well as people are making out here, could have easily been at fault for 2 yaya tour goals. But whatever, he was better than Smalling and Rojo today.
He wasn't to blame. Yaya got the better of him properly once. Nothing wrong with that. Yaya bettered many players today.
Tighter on Agüero? Carrick was on Agüero and then went to cover the near post area. In that split second Agüero got into position like the excellent striker he is. The big mistake was letting Clichy getting into that position to cross in the first place.
Those things stood out for me too.
Exactly. Can't believe people are calling that as a McNair mistake.