Has provided the most assists for us now this season. (all comps)
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 39
- Goals
- 8
- Assists
- 10
- Yellow cards
- 8
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
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His movement without the ball is still good though, it's his movement with the ball that has completely deteriorated
His defensive action tonight was good nonetheless
Oh feck off.
Good defensive performance. But to be honest I don't need a 350k/week guy to play like he did today. He deserves the record and I hope he gets it asap. We should try to ship him out end of the year.
He's just...meh! He's not been "Sprayed Wane"" terrible but Ok is just not good enough
Not sure when your posts became so sarcastic, see where as I'm pleased about the performance of the team as a whole others I bet couldn't wait to come and post comments like that.Another great assist for his great performance @SirScholes @Sparky10Legend
That 5 yard pass before Zlatans wonderstrike will chalk up his assists beautifully and add to another great performance
Slow clap.
Leading team in assists still, but only in the Rooney thread will you find it being used as a negative, that's me out here.
Won't be reading replies, ggmu
Misleading though.
Besides that cross to Ibra, most have been lay-offs where the recipient is doing most of the work.
We've got away with it by starting him the last two games. Let's not push our luck and just play our better players going forward though please.
He's done ok, he's done the job you'd expect of a squad player, just have to put out of your mind that he's not on squad player money.
He's done ok, he's done the job you'd expect of a squad player, just have to put out of your mind that he's not on squad player money.
this.
I also don't think he was bad today but let's not overpraise him because of his atrocious performances this year. Lingard was comfortably better today and he's a squad player for me, we should try to play martial has completely into form or give a chance to depay or Mata who defo doesnt deserve to be benched and is much better than rooney even played out wide
I did laugh when Rashford ran the length of the pitch, passed it to him eventually, then his first touch meant his second touch ended up being a sliding tackle.
He did well at covering LB though. Id rather he came on than Rashford for the left wing when defending a 1-0 lead cos you know he will at least help out and do a better job. Rather Rashford comes on to push up top.
He did well at covering LB though. Id rather he came on than Rashford for the left wing when defending a 1-0 lead cos you know he will at least help out and do a better job. Rather Rashford comes on to push up top.
He's not going ot be a starter for us and that's fair enough but when he's come in he's doing a job for us. I thought he'd be poor today without Mkhi and Mata to play with but he had an all right game. His defensive work was also pretty important on that side to help Darmian. As long as he does more than Martial and Rashford on that wing, he'll get chances.
Squad player for closing out games is the best place for him at this moment imo, when the squad is fit. Rather him than Fellaini which isn't exactly special but yea.
He made a contribution whether you like it or not.
He started.
Martial, Rooney, Rashford or whoever plays LW will find it difficult when having to cover for Darmian so much.
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Like it or not, but he does give the side a presence just by being on the pitch during away games. It's weird but psychologically we need him during the first half of away games even though he's a hindrance in many respects too.
I see most of the reports on Twitter and newspapers (missed the game) say he did well but on here he is just average.
He was the victim of tactics tonight. Him on the LW with Darmian on LB means only one thing - defend.
Hence why every other attacking midfielder in the league has loads of assists.
Getting in those positions is a talent.
He was excellent for Rashford's goal vs Hull, ibra's goal vs Southampton and ibra's first goal vs Swansea.
A couple of poor first touches and giving the ball to Zlatan on the edge of the box is still registered as an assist. Good to see, no matter.Wayne Rooney has now registered 5 Premier League assists this season, as many as Mesut Ozil, David Silva and Eden Hazard combined.
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Yeah we've established he's had 3 assists this season, five 3 yard passes 20+ yards from goal and one complete miss hit off his knee which bounced 12 feet in the air and was nodded in at the back post by Zlatan.
That's not really true. He had 5 assists in the PL, 3 of which were excellent
Vs Hull for rashford
Vs Southampton for Ibra
Vs Swansea for ibra (his second goal not first)
The other two seem to be
Vs Swansea for ibra (his first goal)
Vs west brom for ibra
Both were excellent finishes by ibra but he was very good in the buildup to it getting to the ball holding it up and playing the pass.
His other assists seem to be
Vs feyenoord cut back for mata
Vs fenerbache lay-off for lingard
Vs zorya miskick for ibra
Overall I would say just one of them is in the 'lucky to get it' category (zorya). Others the finishes were brilliant but Rooney did more than his part overall.
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It was a joke on here a while back that someone would use those assists in an argument for him at some point
1 Feyenoord: Great assist, good cutback.
2 Swansea: 3 yards pass to Ibra who struck it in from 20 yards and another 3 yard pass to Ibra who did all the work to finish it again.
1 Fenerbahce: Another 5 yard pass on the edge of the area for matter to strike it in from 20 yards.
1 Zorya: A completely scuffed shot off his shin that Zlatan headed in at the near post
1 Hull: a good cross from the left hand side.
1 Leicester: A pass to Lingard on the half way line who Messi'd his way to goal.
1 Southampton: A floated cross for Ibra.
That's 5 assists out of his 8 where he was either extremely lucky with a scuffed shot or just a simple 5 yard pass under no pressure outside the area that was followed by a wonder strike or dribble from the receiver.
I've quoted this because as the season progresses, his defenders will keep mentioning "but Rooney has made many assists", so we need to be able to pull this out in reply.
Rooney did have about 4-5 decent games for us, but today (WBA) and against CP (last game), he was pretty average. Not bad...but average.
This is mostly incorrect though
For instance Swansea he received a ball from Carrick turns past a Swansea player takes the ball forward and then passes it forward past two defenders to Zlatan who scores after being 1v1 with the keeper (good finish though) yet you make it seem as if he has passed it sideways from halfline and zlatan took the ball till the goal himself
Similarly he received the ball and laid it off to lingard who scored vs fenerbache is which for me is a legit assist as lay offs have to be perfectly weighted for the finish to be good and it was.
The 2 (today and Swansea) for ibra also he was involved quite heavily in the buildup and ultimately the goal was completely down to zlatan but Rooney played a key part in it.
Overall he has 2 assists he doesn't deserve of his 9 (Including the CS which I didn't include) which would probably be the case for the likes of Ozil and all too
True, I forgot about those 2. That was good work by Rooney.
These are his assists in the league
vs Hull
vs Swansea
vs Southampton
vs West Brom
vs Swansea
vs Southampton
vs West Brom
His assists in Europe
vs Fenerbahce
vs Zorya
vs Feyenoord
vs Fenerbahce
vs Zorya
vs Feyenoord
His goals so far
vs Bournemouth
vs Fenerbahce
vs Feyenoord
vs Bournemouth
vs Fenerbahce
vs Feyenoord
Great stuff @roseguy64
Thanks. Now everyone has material to either defend or harass him.Great stuff @roseguy64
This is why assists shouldn't be taken seriously .. Most of Rooney's so called assists this season have been laughably poor play from him that Zlaton somehow converted into goals
It looks like he is trying his best this year to show how skewed assist stats can be.
Okay, this is the new low for Rooney fans here. Him losing the ball is now counted as an assist too.
No doubt that 4 or 5 of his "assists" this season aren't really assists.
Only the Zorya one could really be called poor play. And even that was an awkward volley when he had just come off the bench.
Watch the video above. He didn't lose the ballIt looks like he is trying his best this year to show how skewed assist stats can be.
Okay, this is the new low for Rooney fans here. Him losing the ball is now counted as an assist too.
Lost the ball? roseguy64 has spent time to get these videos. Least you can do is watch them.
Oops, looked like an interception even after few watching, but he did pass it to Ibra there. Still, pretty low to call it "important contribution" anyway.
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