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Most of your posts in this thread today have been completely rubbish though and have been stinking up the place.
Be a dear and tell me how you know that the goals he did score would've been scored by another striker who presumably would've scored that and the ones Zlatan missed. Let's keep this evidence based though. No assumptions and intangibles.
It was not his most composed effort was it? And a lot of things didn't come off for him they way he would have liked, but feck me, the ball is attracted to him and vice versa. Thing of beauty and it could've been more
This is oh so so true but today imho he did seem a yard off his usual (not so quick) pace and almost none of patterned little flicks and tricks & one-two's came off; but how can you (or why) would you take off a player that so regularly gets goals out of nowt? Fecking amazing ... again!
Don't worry lad, it's being seen now and you are also right it will at some time be sorely mossed! Perhaps not by every body in the caf but almost all of us.
Match winner, time and time again, yes! But for me he only makes it "look simple"
Yeah I have an opinion; I "blame" his experience - he's in the box with 3 or 4 frustrated defenders around him peckin' at his heels close to the end of the game. They can't get round him (he's too good) and the guy in his back in advisably lunges & sticks his knee into the back of Ibra's knee/thigh. (Ever had somebody just take your knee out from behind) Inbra felt the contact & had really nowhere else to go but down. Left the ref little option unless the ref wanted to keep it at 2?
Is my para phrasing correct?
Some big Zlatan fans have said the same thing. It's also the truth. Which is a very odd thing to have a problem with.
I've been frustrated with him at times but irrespective of how many chances he's missed it's undeniable not too many players would've scored as many league goals as he has. I'd say our lack of goals (in comparison to teams above us) has been more down to a general lack of another regular goalscorer.
Be a dear and don't ignore the first part of my post. Quote me my messages, go on.
Also don't ignore this one either.
Yes, I agree with you. The only one that was pretty good is the one that Mignolet saved.
There's another thread on this but i agree fully. That and the lack of goals from set pieces. Would love Bailly or someone to thump in a header from a corner.
It's unlikely that a player scores three goals and has a bad game but it's not impossible. That's like saying a goalkeeper saves two pens and so it's impossible to have a bad game. It's very possible if he's dropped clanger after clanger during the game.
I thought it was up to United to activate the next year? He signed a 1 year plus we have the option to extend for another year, no?
Yeah, Mata's popped up with a couple and has made some important attacking contributions but in general, we've not really got anyone apart from Zlatan right now who's going to make it well into double figures in goals in the league; in that sense, despite any criticisms we may have, I don't think we can expect too much more from him. Already doing more than enough as a goalscorer.
fecking hell.
Wasn't it his agent that started those rumours again?
If I didn't count wrong it's 30 goals (not counting NT and the "Supercup" before the season starts)
Zlatan has been quoted as saying that the decision is mutual. He said it hasn't been determined from his side. So perhaps he is waiting to see how the season ends.
Zlatan clearly likes living in Italy and at 35/6 living on the coast near Napoli would be great for him and his family.
Oh nice, just 7 goals off the season where he scored 50. If we advance far enough in every competition we could see him nearing 40 goals!
Yes I think you are right there. This comment makes sense from jomo now you have said that.
He's said that he wants to win the league.
Yeah he stated that himself that life in Italy suits him perfectly.
Hmm... If Chicharito had scored 3 in this game, would it be a good or bad performance? I ask because that type of player usually is "unseen" on the pitch, but give him a chance and he scores.
Well, I guess it depends. If Chicharito had an otherwise quiet game but used great movement to get the goals then I'd say he had a great game.
We went to "the next level" with Saha? a guy who's record league goals total for United in a season was 8.
In terms of attacking play we looked awesome as a unit with Saha being the perfect foil for Rooney and Ronaldo. Think it was the '06 season where we just started smashing teams from the get go.
Ronaldo went from incredibly talented boy with not enough end product to emerging as the superstar goalscoring winger of World football.
I obviously hadn't seen enough of Zlatan then because i expected that typical quality on the ball that all world class strikers have.
They were our goalscorers though. If you put Zlatan in that team, for example, where he wants everything to centre around him, i don't think we'd have been half as entertaining. I also doubt that Ronaldo and Rooney would have been as effective but Zlatan would have probably scored a bucketload.
You are aware of why he drops deep? He also had a couple of good "moves" of which one was where "challenged" the opponent and passed inwards but like most of his potential assists, no one was there to be able to score. And scoring a "sitter" is generally done by reading the game and creating a good position for yourself - if he did not have any movement, wouldn't that make it easier for the defenders to actually defend against him? Scoring penalties isn't as easy as some may think, but this is one of his strongest areas. Agree about the lucky free kick.
The amount of times Zlatan comes deep and Mata gets in behind. Ronaldo would have scored bucket loads, especially with Pogba finding him.
Van Persie against Villa? Rooney against Brugge was the last outside the PL?
