Aah apologies.
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Been great imo. No one is setting him up. He is setting them up. Once people start creating chances for him he will score.
To be fair does a contact in the media mean anything these days.. it seems they get more clueless with each passing summer - no offence to your contact who might have tangible evidence to back up his story.
This. He's doing all the running for RvP (why??) and playing more like a second striker than an out and out no9.
Play one of them, and play Rooney as the 2nd striker!
I'm not sure why he would make stuff up for my benefit.
I seem to remember him missing two chances. One against West Ham and the other versus Leichester.
I forgive him though for those chances and hope he comes good real soon as in before and during the Chelsea and City games so that he can cause them headaches.
One chance a game is not people setting him up imo. And he created his chance vs Leicester.
I'm not saying he did, it was a general comment on the validity of information that journalists are made privy to.
No, Rooney's created that chance for him, he was in the open and Rooney's ball was inch perfect. Pity about the bar.
Your words were
Rooney certainly set him up there. As a striker, you have to take all those chances, even if it's one chance.
Showing some really good hold up play so far while being very willing, as said in this thread, to set others up. The goals will come; he gets into all the right positions and isn't afraid to have a go from range.
Has been rather subdued given his record for scoring; can't wait for him to burst into life.
Has been rather subdued given his record for scoring; can't wait for him to burst into life.
Fair enough, I don't disagree with that statement, but did that get in the papers? See what I mean? If the club was feeding info to journalists it would be so it gets published, surely?
Im wondering if he was bought more for hold up and assists for VP than goal scoring, he seems to be playing deeper than usual.
Put your house on him to score against Everton.
You heard it here first!
You heard it here first!
I put money on him scoring vs QPR, then against Leicester, then against West Ham, so I have to carry on until he does, he was Evens the last 2 times, hes gone out to 2.4 now though, hopefully easy money
His goal return won't be as ridiculous as it was in Spain, but he'll score goals. He's only had a few half chances so far.
That doesn't make much sense - no striker has a 100% conversion rate. Rooney missed one and scored one in the half vs West Ham - should he have scored twice? RvP missed several vs Sunderland(?). No one has a 100%. If ppl aren't making more than 1 chance a game for Falcao it's highly likely he won't score - even in a game you need a rhythm be it shooting, etc and only having 1-2 chances prevents that. Falcao had one - two proper chances per game the last 3 matches because he's being forced to do a lot if not all of the hold up play and leg work, while RvP goal hangs and Rooney stays further back to get the result of the hold up play. Falcao is basically playing as a 2nd striker (hence being able to get 2 assists, one each game). Rooney has benefited as the pseudo #10 - scoring by running in late (as Mata was doing also when he plays).
My point was we need a system (or performance in this system) where all 3 forwards benefit so that all remain confident and productive. ATM largely because RvP isn't doing much running the system's benefits are lopsided wrt the 3 forwards. It will be better if all 3 are scoring than just one or two, and that depends on more being created for the guy who has been creating lately.
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Yeap,I think he will score against them also this weekend.
Man Utd 2:1 Everton
He doesn't look like the clinical finisher i thought he was.
He's the best finisher in the world(bar Messi) when he gets going. He will get going. Don't worry.
That's been my thinking. If I hadn't seen any of his goal comps and know his general stats, I'd think of him as a fairly clumsy finisher.
Let's hope you're right!
Falcao!!!!!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS made up for him!
Forget a money off the back, that must feel like a gorilla off the back.
Jinxed it!
He reminds me so much of van Nistelrooy
Let's try to do an anti-jinx again:
One goal's all well and good, but with the kind of chances he's getting and wasting, I wouldn't trust this guy to nab two in one outing.
One goal's all well and good, but with the kind of chances he's getting and wasting, I wouldn't trust this guy to nab two in one outing.
Loving his attitude
Should hopefully start banging them in now he's got his first.
Muppet seaman all over the world as that goal went in?
Nice one Rommy, still a few left to catch up though.
Falcao 1 - 4 Welbeck
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Falcao 1 - 4 Welbeck
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Excellent hold up play today.
I actually thought this was his worst match for us. Yet he scored.
Missed the part during his sub., why was he taken off? Was he injured?
The clumsy finishing I think was down to him being over anxious to score.
Glad he scored, celebrating a Falcao goal for United is weird though. Never thought we would have him.
Love his attitude as well.
Glad he scored, celebrating a Falcao goal for United is weird though. Never thought we would have him.
Love his attitude as well.
Could really work on his finishing, I'll put it down to him trying too hard to get his first goal for now. Though I do think RVP had a worse game than him.
I'd say it's because he's still not fully fit and LVG doesn't want to risk further injuries.
Most of the chances he got were actually kind of awkward so I don't blame him too much for not finishing them, although with his ability you'd expect him to. He scored with the best chance he got and it was a great finish
Ah ok. Just wanted to know if there was any apparent reason to take him off. Looks like there wasn't.
Hopefully he starts banging them in now that he's got his first.
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