these numbers don't look good. could someone explain?
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 46
- Goals
- 28
- Assists
- 9
- Yellow cards
- 8
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This period of frustration began with that obviously-bad-idea video message to Bravo but I think he's still good and I'm quite excited when he gets the ball. He's just got to learn to work with the dimensions of our pitch better.
http://statsbomb.com/2016/04/understand-football-radars-for-mugs-and-muggles/
That article used the old format on attacking players but it still applies to learning how to read the graph.
This article will help you understand what the Zlatan numbers mean: http://statsbomb.com/2016/09/new-tech-and-a-little-story-about-neymar-andros-and-eden-hazard/
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I found this amusing. It should have given a key for every stat but oh well. To me it looks like a way to suggest "he is trying at least" but does not possess the quality. The top players have end product and quality. Zlatan is big and strong so will get touches in the box as he can hold players off as a target man. No agility, skill, guile and currently poor finishing though so I am definitely not convinced.....
His finishing has been poor but I seriously don't know what you have been watching
I do agree with you to be fair, mate. Playing this amount of games at 35 with the intensity of the Prem was always a big ask. I do think the idea was to rotate Rashford and Zlatan though. His missed chances have cost us points. But since we don't have a lot of decent options outwide at present with the mystery of Mkhi and Martial unfit and the lack of a prime world class goalscorer I was trying to suggest a way which might get us goals.
Saw a stat that we'd scored 1 out of the last 90 odd chances in the Premier league!!
I wondered how many were Ibra, has to be many more than the 8 mentioned in that article. He surely racked up more than 8 chances v Stoke n Burnley alone!
I wondered how many were Ibra, has to be many more than the 8 mentioned in that article. He surely racked up more than 8 chances v Stoke n Burnley alone!
Try to understand it before drawing conclusions. Scoring 4 goals in 10 games isn't that bad. Clearly he could have got 4 more at least but goals will come.
And to the ones who are telling that he cost us points. Which player won us the first two games (three games if you include the community shield)?
Its all a bit reaching isn't it? When I think of these big strong strikers who couldn't finish, e.g. Adebayor, Soldado, they would probably score highly on these readings, same as Janssen for Spurs. problem is it takes quality over sheer numbers
He has now gone more than nine hours without a Premier League goal, his worst sequence without a league goal in a decade. In fact, his only goal in his last nine games in all competitions came against Zorya Luhansk in the Europa League. He is getting chances - he has had more shots (57) than any other Premier League player this season - but he's failed to score with his last 42 attempts.
Only three other players have had 30 shots and none of them have scored fewer than him. In comparison, Premier League top scorer Diego Costa has seven goals from only 27 shots.
United were utterly dominant against Burnley, taking 37 shots in total, but failed to find the goal thanks to a mixture of wasteful finishing and brilliant goalkeeping by Tom Heaton. Zlatan alone accounted for 12 of our efforts on goal, two of which were pretty much clear cut chances. The worst miss came in the 89th minute when he miscued Paul Pogba's cross from a few yards out. I believe he should be dropped for a couple of games, so he can kickstart fresh again. At 35 years old we can't afford to play him in every game.
Only three other players have had 30 shots and none of them have scored fewer than him. In comparison, Premier League top scorer Diego Costa has seven goals from only 27 shots.
United were utterly dominant against Burnley, taking 37 shots in total, but failed to find the goal thanks to a mixture of wasteful finishing and brilliant goalkeeping by Tom Heaton. Zlatan alone accounted for 12 of our efforts on goal, two of which were pretty much clear cut chances. The worst miss came in the 89th minute when he miscued Paul Pogba's cross from a few yards out. I believe he should be dropped for a couple of games, so he can kickstart fresh again. At 35 years old we can't afford to play him in every game.
Fenerbahce 2:1 Man Utd
Why would he play a no look pass in that situation, only to go and feck it up?
All he gives a feck about is himself and how he looks on the pitch, doubt he gives that much of a shit if we win or lose.
All he gives a feck about is himself and how he looks on the pitch, doubt he gives that much of a shit if we win or lose.
So sloppy.
Too sloppy.
Awful yet again. He can't make simple 2-5 yard passes and almost always overhits it.
Whether he plays well or not he just seems to have this ability to find space and move the ball on that makes us better going forward.
Didn't have a particularly great individual half but we looked miles better when he came on.
Didn't have a particularly great individual half but we looked miles better when he came on.
He's a show off - an uncompetitive Ligue 1 in a team that is miles better than any other was the best place for him.
I can't believe we are stuck with him and Rooney as our CF options.
I can't believe we are stuck with him and Rooney as our CF options.
Agreed. Some of his passing is poor but he links the play together so well and everything seems to go through him.
He still has the technical ability which is what makes it frustrating. He could be brilliant for us if he would stop being so casual.
we were crap with and without him...created one chance against fecking Fener with Kjaer Skrtel at CBs is an absolute disgrace IMO
luckily for zlatan has fan base doesnt care if he scores or even passes well, they will just hug the autobiography he paid someone to write for him and drool over the lines his press officer sends out after the match
Hope we can sell him in January, very poor CF who's nowhere near good enough if you want to have any relevance as a team.
Was very surprised Mourinho put him on for Pogba. I guess it's because he needs a goal, but as Hargreaves said, Mkhitaryan or Mata would have been a much better option.
How is linking anything well? He can't make one pass that isn't badly over hit.
Quality player who is having a bad run of it right now, a lot of posters here want to have a word with themselves.
That's because you, Fergie's son and a few others keep writing in this thread as soon as he do something bad. Just look at Fergie's son who posted ONE minute after Zlatan was on and already had a go. Pathetic.
Sloppy yes, but we look more likely to score when he's on the pitch as he actually plays risky balls.
Rooney is beaten down by age (granted more so than Zlatan), yet somehow I dont see anyone trotting these lines out for him.
Zlatan is 35, it is perfectly natural that he is on the decline.
I hope he makes me eat my words, but I don't understand why he was brought on. He's sloppy, doesn't look like scoring and he seems to be on the edge.
He looks more likely to get sent off than anything right now, needs to chill a bit.
We need to bring on Mata in the 2nd half. That would be great. No more dropping deep. More control just outside the box. More presence from Zlatan up ahead
I like the energy he's brought on with him today.
He's playing it a bit like Costa, he's whipping their defense up and trying to force errors.
As long as he makes sure that he doesn't lose his cool, I think it's great when players actively make the game psychologically difficult for the opposition.
He's the most dynamic player on the pitch right now. Bring on Mata and we'll win.
He's playing it a bit like Costa, he's whipping their defense up and trying to force errors.
As long as he makes sure that he doesn't lose his cool, I think it's great when players actively make the game psychologically difficult for the opposition.
He's the most dynamic player on the pitch right now. Bring on Mata and we'll win.
Never wanted him to score more to be honest. Shut up these fans and Skrtel.
He's definitely brought some energy and enthusiasm but his passing is awful. He's missed so many easy passes already.
That first piece of play from Rooney showed how little he knows what to do in CM.
Play the ball out wide and immediately runs forward. He should have dropped a little and been available for the return pass and to keep play moving.
Play the ball out wide and immediately runs forward. He should have dropped a little and been available for the return pass and to keep play moving.
Age doesn't make you miss easy chances, that has nothing to do with age, he's not suffering physically.
Looks like another Falcao to me. Only he doesn't have the injury to hide behind.
One of the worst individual displays I've seen. I like Zlatan and his presence, but I can't defend him when he plays as feckin awful as he has.
Couldn't pass, retain the ball, build play up, basically do anything tonight.
Couldn't pass, retain the ball, build play up, basically do anything tonight.
Worst player on the pitch today just awful
Terrible.
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