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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 46
- Goals
- 28
- Assists
- 9
- 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.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
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1st hattrick for United.
yup, a legend. love him.
yup, a legend. love him.
Yeah but I dont get that, it wont be enough come the end of the season.
He's scoring goals but is getting criticism all around. He needs a rest, true, maybe he'll get it on Sunday.
So he's nothing special, isn't he?
In modern football? Pirlo to Juventus proved to be a catalyst for their enormous domestic success. Baggio had a great spell at Bologna. Larsson hasn't played at the same level but he was crucial for Barca's CL win in 2006. Cambiasso to Inter. Sol to Arsenal. Zlatan doesn't look out of place here though, and he is highly likely to share the first place with Pirlo when he finishes his spell with us.
edit: forgot about Cafu to Milan!
The greatest of them all is Ferenc Puskas though. Alongside half of that Hungarian team - Kocsis and Czibor weren't half bad at Barca, for example. Different time and different situation though, of course, with the revolution changing everything.
Wins the free-kick for his first goal. Is in the right position for the second and wins the penalty which he converts. Shit performance, ey?
I really don't think we create that many chances, there aren't many other strikers that would be on 23 goals by now playing for us.
None, they would all score all of Zlatan's chances, they would all be at least as good as getting into those positions and they would all finish better.
This thread....
Luckily he should get rest on Sunday and even Wednesday, before the cup final.
Context my man. It was a conversation me and Raoul had back when he wasn't scoring. It's a nothing thing really. I just found it funny that back then goals didn't matter. Now he's scoring they're all that matters. You've got to admit that's quite a change of opinion.
Why do posters tell you you're going on the ignore list. Why not just do it?
I knew you would crawl out sooner or later.
But would we create as much chances if he were out of the equation? It's remarkable how many chances this guy gets, and to me it's because he just knows where to be. A fantastic striker to have in the team and the 23 goals back that up.
Correct! I'm really annoyed, truth be told! What do they expect him to do? Even when his overall play is a bit under his highest standard, he still does what is generally expected of him, score. Like I said before - if a "poacher" (Inzaghi-style) had scored 3 goals in this game, no one would have complained about what he did or didn't do besides the goals, he would get a 10 rating.
Hat-trick... 23 goals in mid-Feb and some still don't love having him at our club.
Mind boggling
But the reason he isn't "seen" as much is because of the lack of play together with his teammates. For instance, when Rashford came in, he and Ibra had good chemistry and the ball reached Ibra all the time. How can he do anything if the ball doesn't come to him? And in the later minutes of the game, he started to defend even more so that St. Etienne wouldn't score a lot goal.
These "complainers" are really going to miss him when he leaves. Strange that they can't appreciate what he is offering. But it's like they want Ibra to constantly run up and down the pitch for 90 minutes, score hat-tricks in every game and have a couple of assists as well. All he does has to also look beautiful or else it doesn't count. As soon as he has an off day, he's basically "garbage" and people have already forgotten what a great season he's had. Isn't it good that he scores this much even when, like som say, he is bad - think how much he'll score when he's in shape?
Have these people forgotten the situation that the club was in before this season? It's not like fans were spoiled with beautiful games and a striker scoring 30+ league goals. So they should open their eyes and be realistic, he's only human and there's only so much he can do.
Lewandowski was a free
He's really not getting criticism all round. Loads of praise in here and rightly so. The worst I'm saying is that he looks in need of a break.
I think we create a lot of good chance every game. The amount of easy chance/sitters we've missed this season is absolutely ridiculous. Someone like Ruud/Costa/Ronaldo would genuinely be on 30 for us right now
He's great what for what we need right now but I think if we're serious about mounting a title challenge we need to upgrade our right wing and striker positions.
Not too many? Maybe the goal against City off the top of my head.
Sorry man, maybe I hit at you cause of some other posters' posts.
Ahaha gloater, when he's shiit, he's still the best man on the pitch, get a grip lad.
Tonight we were lucky that he was lucky. He got 3, yes, but God knows he was lucky as hell and wasn't the best player out there.
This will be a classic case of not knowing what you had until you lose it.
He's 35 and he does that. I hope our young players are looking at him and learning everything they can.
Easily signing of the season. What a player, makes it look so easy at times
Easily signing of the season. What a player, makes it look so easy at times
Or maybe we'll just sign someone who'll complement our attack even better and we'll also look back at how good a job Zlatan did for us?
Our top scorer last season got 17, the seson before that 14, before that 19. We have struggled with goals and chances for a few years now and Zlatan in February has already well beaten all those totals. We haven't suddenly become some chance creating machine, he's just an excellent striker.
Do you actually celebrate when Zlatan scores ?
Zlatan is a funny fecker. His profile pic in this thread is like hes laughing at us and all the haterz. even if he plays shit, I love the fact that he has scored such a gift of a hatrick. He hasn't even needed to do anything but it still goes down in the books as a hatrick and rightly so he can mock us all.
Haha. Glad you admit you hate him though. 23 goals and counting.
And yes. I do love Zlatan. Always will.
Depressing thread. Zlatan just scored a hattrick, the guy is awesome and it feel great to watch United again. I can't find anything negative to discuss to be honest.
Having Martial, Mata and Mkhi and also Pogba and not passing the ball sideways is a reason we create a lot lot more this season.,
What a loon.
Zlatan could score 40 this season and you'll be banging on about how other players would have had 50.
We're nowhere near as good as you're making out.
You're wrong. They would've all scored double what Zlatan has done from his shots that resulted in goals. Seems illogical? Well it fits right into the logic of this thread.
I genuinely believe people have forgotten what it's like to have a real striker upfront. RvN would've been absolutely crucified by this lot.
Yeah but why just not enjoy this while it lasts. Guy is doing great yet some are already wanting him replaced. As I said he's on 23 and it's just February. He could hit 30 goals mark or more.
Our new guy should be a blast to come even close to those numbers.
It's blown me away the Zlatan thread this season @Acquire Me, never in my life could I imagine we'd have so much doubt and dislike of a player who had scored/assisted 30 in 35 games by mid-Feb.
Horrible bunch of fans we have. You can prefer a different type of striker but still love Zlatan whilst he's here and doing this.
The Martial and Mkhi that sat out most of the first half of the season? They're the reason Zlatan has so many goals?
He was mentioned in the original post. But yeah, one of the best ever from that perspective
Because so many of you are being idiots, I'll say something smart..
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is brilliant
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is brilliant
Someone of Zlatan's calibre should be on 30 already. You can make a long list of sitters you'd bet your house on Zlatan scoring which he's somehow missed. It's not just him though, a lot of our players have missed ridiculous chances. We might not be great but we do create a lot and the reason we draw so many is not because keepers become supermen but because we're just not clinical enough.
Why can't fans just be happy? He scored a hat-trick and we're almost through. Just enjoy it ffs
That's the thing, i don't hate him. I don't rate him tho, because I've always considered him to be a mercenary. His switch from Juve to Inter, than ditching Inter to join Barca and subsequent move to Milan and than money move to PSG.
Can you honestly say he was the best man on the pitch tonight?
You've never rated him? Why can a mercenary not be a good player?
And who cares if he was the best man on the pitch, what has that got to do with anything.
This place is poison some times, honestly, Bangs in a hattrick, 23 goals already in Feb and people still criticise, Yikes, "logs out"
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