He's sure to start in the CL, probably alongside Giggs. He needs games before he can be judged fairly.
Marouane Fellaini | 2013/14 Performances
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Decent half from Fellaini
Absolutely. Richter should be sent off and Fellaini handled that situation in elder brother's fashion. Good lad.
Better from him but he needs to start showing himself for the ball! Him and Jones was atrocious in the first 20-25 minutes of the second half in that aspect, not helped by Smalling replacing Evans. We couldn't pass water for the start of that half.
The whole team shaped changed. I am with Jim above though - not really much there to say 'great performance' he was decent, didn't do too much wrong.
Yup. A bit quicker moving himself around without the ball.
Still offers very, very little as a passer.
Ran his Afro off today. Would like to see more of the same.
In parts where he was close to Fulham's box, he was fantastic.
The situation when he showed Rooney to cross from a dead ball on his head was a clear indication that he wants to kill Fulham with the 4th goal. He was also much more agressive than Cleverley and that's exactly what we needed when Fulham started to kick our players whenever they got the ball.
Big drop off in the quality of the passing between him and Cleverley.
Deserves praise for sticking up for Januzaj though. The rest of our players seriously lack balls in those situations these days (apart from RvP).
Deserves praise for sticking up for Januzaj though. The rest of our players seriously lack balls in those situations these days (apart from RvP).
Thought he did rather well second half, was one of few who were steadying the ship.
I think that is very harsh (ie very wrong) given that he played quite a few quick accurate passes that launched attacks and was very economical where many more lauded players were giving it away very cheaply.
He still has a lot of improving to do, but people seem to be bringing criticisms from previous games into this one without any real basis apart from personal bias against the player.
We made three changes second half and to be fair to Fulham, they were bound to come into the game at some point. Fellaini did fine but don't expect miracles. If we finish mid table or top it won't solely fall on one player, whom some just have a problem with. He'll get better as the season progresses. He'll improve even more next season with a pre season at the club.
He played one lovely pass, straight through their midfield to Januzaj who was near the box. Was a shame that Januzaj was closed down quickly.
Have we ever signed somebody before that you didnt think was good enough to improve us, or that ever proved your initial opinion wrong?
Carrick in 06? many people opposed that one in a summer chelsea signed shevchenko and ballack
Evra and Vidic after their first few games?
Lots of peopl thought van persie wasnt what we needed despite him being good?
anybody?
The fact is he has started i think 3 games for us and you have decided moyes needs to write him off now. Its bizarre and typical of a modern fan. theres countless players the world over who have had shocking entire first seasons with clubs only to improve, let alone 3 games. He's wearing the united shirt, maybe support him a bit longer.
Some people here would consider a successful 2 meter pass as a massive achievement.
Decent enough game from him I guess, nothing spectacular. What I liked the most though is when he helped Januzaj out once this pathetic shithead stood on Januzaj's leg. That's what I expect from all of our players, some bloody balls.
Good post. I for one wasn't too happy about the Carrick signing back in 06 and also didn't think we needed RVP when we signed him despite of how good I thought he was. They proved me wrong and I'm glad they did. Carrick turned out to be a key player for United over the years and RVP made the difference last season.
Those that already gave up on Fellaini should maybe remember those games with Everton where he bossed our midfielders and remember that his toplevel is a lot higher than he has shown so far. He's not been in great form, but today he showed some improvement. Form is only temporary. In time I still believe he will come good for us.
Obviously there's been times but IMO all of those players I either haven't seen before they came to United, or didn't pay attention to them(Evra or Vidic), or they were clearly talented and just needed time like Carrick, or were clearly world class like Van Persie. Most times when we spent a large amount of money, the players were usually really talented and when it didn't work out like Berba or Veron, it was because they didn't fit in rather then them not being good enough which I think is the case for Fellaini. I think he'll be good cover here and good as a squad member, but we should not have spent 30million for someone who is a squad player at best. I'll support him but I don't have to like him, and I'd prefer to see others start over him, and he may turn out to be class for all I know but based on how he was for Everton the past 5 years and the little bit here, I don't think he'll ever be considered a key player. He was good for Everton, but that's because he was basically the main player there so they played to his strengths which resulted in a lot of long balls and him playing as an attacking midfielder so that he can knock them down.
Also how did he play overall today? I only watched first 30 minutes of the game then had to go write an exam so missed the second half.
he did well, came on as part of a triple substitution and we were all at sea for the first 20 minutes. he was tidy in possession and worked hard, certainly looked like he was trying to prove people wrong. he'll be a good player for us, im sure of it and will start in midweek. i saw him as a limited player at everton and while hes been underwhelming hes better on the ball than i thought.
But where to play him? He's not what I'd call a classic "utility" player and he's certainly not an accomplished defensive midfielder, though he might in time. He's all right at linking play but he's not the quickest to recover once the ball is lost, and you need your link players to fill the role of ball winner as well. He's still pretty much an unknown quantity at United but Moyes must have some idea where he wants him to play the majority of his game time.
Hope you're right and he proves me wrong, but I just can't see a Carrick-Fellaini partnership ever working that well really. It's just too defensive, slow, and no creativity IMO. Maybe he saw Fellaini as a Carrick replacement as the more defensive player and we sign a more attacking midfielder to play next to him, like what we seem to be looking at Pjanic for or Herrera. That could work potentially, remains to be seen though.
Well we'll never have a settled first XI. those days are gone so he'll get plenty of games. I still think theres something to the set up we saw against leverkusen with carrick and fellaini allowing the more attacking players more freedom and hopefully seeing an end to our negative wing play. look at januzaj since hes come into the team. hes a constant threat, so exciting and while obviously a team game, he'd be stunted by having him doing too much donkey work like weve seen from valencia, young and others in the last couple of years. i want two quality wingers on the pitch playing nice and wide and having the freedom to attack. fellaini and carrick is a solid base from where to start with a third body between midfield and attack helping out whatever the game dictates. ideally rooney but he may take convincing.
Will be a great player to bring off the bench if we're chasing a game so lob loads of crosses into him....And he still could turn out to be a good player here but...If Moyes is putting Jones ahead of him when Carrick is out in central midfield in most games then he will have to settle for games here and there when Moyes wants to rest other first teamers...I'd prefer him any day to have on the bench than Anderson though
It's a fact.
He seemed lost at times and he played it safe. Some of the red tinted posts here are a bit embarassing to be honest. FFS just a 10 years ago we had Scholes and Keane in their prime and now we're all excited about having a midfielder capable of passing a successful 2 meter pass.
He played good. People have responded by saying he played good. The feck is wrong with that?
Lost? Yet another cretinous post from you. I doubt you even watched the game.
I'm being a bit pedantic here, but Barcelona played the best football in the history of the sport by completing 2 meter passes.
Ahh top red alert
Yeah Fellaini was fantastic today. Those incisive through balls and that dribbling in CM was simply breathtaking. It reminded me of a hybrid between Paul Scholes and Maradona to be honest. Lets forget that Fulham only got truly dangerous in the second half right? (it was a collective thing and not just Fellaini fault but there again...)
If you ask me about his performance, well he was decent. The plus side is that he kept it simple which considering that he's a player with great limitations in terms of passing skills its a good thing to do. If he stops being so feckin slow then he can develop into a new taller version of Gattuso which isn't that bad after all.
However reading some posts in here are bordering to the hilarious. What exactly did he do that confirmed that he did so well?
Yeah Fellaini was fantastic today. Those incisive through balls and that dribbling in CM was simply breathtaking. It reminded me of a hybrid between Paul Scholes and Maradona to be honest. Lets forget that Fulham only got truly dangerous in the second half right? (it was a collective thing and not just Fellaini fault but there again...)
If you ask me about his performance, well he was decent. The plus side is that he kept it simple which considering that he's a player with great limitations in terms of passing skills its a good thing to do. If he stops being so feckin slow then he can develop into a new taller version of Gattuso which isn't that bad after all.
However reading some posts in here are bordering to the hilarious. What exactly did he do that confirmed that he did so well?
I thought he was decent today, nothing to get excited about but nothing to slate him for either.
The bolded is highly pedantic.
I'm not saying he was anything better than decent. However even that bears mentioning given the over the top criticism he's received on this forum since he was signed.
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