[Rado_N]

His positional awareness is definitely suspect.

Can't help but feel it'd be better by now if he hadn't been played all over the bloody pitch so often.

 

[Classical Mechanic]

I saw a couple of times where he was caught up the pitch or out of position.

Definitely needs to be Smalling ** at the back for me, whether the ** is Jones or Rojo I dont really know though.

Rojo lost Benteke on the corner for the goal and gave away his obligatory stupid free kick in a dangerous area. Jones would getting panned on here if he had done that today.

 

[Bojan11]

Not a fan of him and Rojo together. Both charge up too much.

 

[Walters_19_MuFc]

I saw a couple of times where he was caught up the pitch or out of position.

Definitely needs to be Smalling ** at the back for me, whether the ** is Jones or Rojo I dont really know though.

Everyone will keep saying we need Smalling, and don't get me wrong, Smalling is our best centre back, in my opinion, but Rojo and Jones were fine today.

 

[Devil may care]

One of his calmer games today, I actually thought he'd gotten hurt at one point as he looked pretty disorientated.

 

[LARulz]

One of his calmer games today, I actually thought he'd gotten hurt at one point as he looked pretty disorientated.

He does that at least once every game

 

[Wednesday at Stoke]

Phil Jones has one gear, its always 5th.

 

[Moriarty]

His positional awareness is definitely suspect.

Can't help but feel it'd be better by now if he hadn't been played all over the bloody pitch so often.

I thought he was better today and handled both Benteke and Agbonlahor well. Both of those players are a handful but Jones stood up well and made some very good and timely tackles. I agree with your second point though. He's best at centre half and that's where he should stay.

 

[MadDogg]

There was one time in the first half where he came flying out to the right side to head the ball away, completely missed it and allowed Villa into a very dangerous position. Otherwise he had a pretty good match.

 

[FromTheBench]

Jones and Smalling is our best partnership. And they could develop into something really good if they stay injury free and keep playing together.

Always thought that.

 

[ZDwyr]

I thought he was alright. There was one or two iffy moments with his positioning that didn't cost us. Would prefer he and Smalling were the CBs against City though, they had just begun developing a good partnership.

 

[gooDevil]

Phil Jones has been named in WhoScored.com’s statistical Premier League Team of the Year so far.

The team is made up of players who are ranked top in their positions according to the website’s stat-based system.

On average, Jones has the second-most interceptions per game (3.6) in the whole league while he has also notched up 2.1 tackles and 6.9 clearances.

http://thepeoplesperson.com/2015/04/04/phil-jones-named-statistical-team-of-the-year-86312/

 

[Sam]

His positional awareness is absolutely horrendous. He runs around like a 10 years old playing Sunday league.

Him and Rojo are just not a good partnership.

 

[surf]

He and Rojo are too instinctive to make a good partnership.

 

[Eric'sCollar]

Couldn't believe the amount of times he went to challenge Benteke out on the sideline for a header. It never caused us too many problems but it just lacked any sense of footballing knowledge. I thought he was good in those battles overall but there was no need to be anywhere near it.

Has done well in recent weeks though.

 

[ChrisG11]

Looked off the pace for me at the weekend. Probably didn't help being on England duty but he was struggling to beat Gabby and Benteke to the ball like he usually would do.

 

[mazhar13]

I initially thought that Benteke and Agbonlahor would cause Jones lots of problems with their pace and strength, but Jones handled them well even if he wasn't at his best. He won a number of aerial battles against Benteke, and he did a good job in suppressing Agbonlahor's influence. There were several instances where I was quite surprised at how he'd challenge Benteke when it wasn't really warranted, but for that aggressive approach, he did an okay job recovering his position.

Still, though, I agree with what ChrisG11 said. Jones did look as fresh as he was before as he was getting caught out more often, but given that, he still did a decent job at the back, and him being not as good as he was before didn't really hurt us as much.

 

[George Owen]

 

[FC Ronaldo]

Remember when Phil Jones took corners?

 

[Robbie Boy]

Remember when Phil Jones took corners?

 

[Ballache]

Remember when Phil Jones took corners?

That was genius

 

[Timdbro]

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I love how the strangely hypnotic music in no way matches the video

 

[marlowe78]

Remember when Phil Jones took corners?

Wait until his debut as striker.

 

[Bwuk]

I'd love one day to know the reasoning behind Jones on corners.

 

[Skills]

Remember when Phil Jones took corners?

 

[bishblaize]

I'd love one day to know the reasoning behind Jones on corners.

I doubt there's much to it. We didnt have that many obvious right footed options beyond Rooney in the games he took them, and its not an unreasonable view to want your best goalscorer in the box. I guess they tried out corners in training and he was alright. Simple as that I reckon.

 

[Manny]

I'd love one day to know the reasoning behind Jones on corners.

Probably to keep him from hurting the opposition, or himself

 

[Kraftwerker]

Thought he was phenomenal today.

Snuffed out everything. Some great challenges and interceptions. And some of those charges up the field he was famed for when he first came here.

Hopefully him being subbed was a precaution?

 

[FromTheBench]

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[Getsme]

Thought he was phenomenal today.

Snuffed out everything. Some great challenges and interceptions. And some of those charges up the field he was famed for when he first came here.

Hopefully him being subbed was a precaution?

Yep, after a very dodgy start by the back line I thought he played very well.

 

[Kraftwerker]

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Reaffirms what I saw.

One of the most accomplished individual defensive displays I've seen in the league this season.

Bodes well.

 

[FromTheBench]

Yep, after a very dodgy start by the back line I thought he played very well.

He seems to have tendency to start sluggish and also is sluggish when he comes on sub at first.

 

[Annahnomoss]

I liked his performance to. LVG clearly wants them to be aggressive and stick on their opponent when they drop to collect balls. It has worked really well, even when our defenders aren't capable of winning the ball back or taking a clean challenge it means that the opponents never get to receive balls without being in heavy pressure.

The 1 vs 1 against Aguero is world class stuff from a centre back, even the best full backs would have a hard time in a 1 vs 1 against Aguero.

 

[Mali_Zeus]

He wasnt injured or sthing?

 

[PvsNP]

Had a very shaky start, but improved massively. Great game overall.

 

[kouroux]

He's a good defender in 1v1 situations, tough to beat. He scares me with his back passes to DDG.

 

[Stadjer]

He was great today. Hopefully he stays fit so Phil Jones becomes one of Manchester United's greatest ever players like Fergie wanted/predicted

 

[R'hllor]

Only thing is his play with a ball,think that will improve a lot just at the moment,he looks for easy way.

 

[VeevaVee]

Am I the only one that thought he was good but looked like he was about to make a massive mistake almost every time he was on the ball?
Only thing I thought was really good was that one tackle near the edge of the box, which was perfect to be fair.

 

[Skills]

That tackle in the first half was magnificent. Smalling + Jones please. Stick with it.