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- Appearances
- 37
- Goals
- 14
- Assists
- 6
- Yellow cards
- 4
- Red cards
- 1
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Rooney has played like 1,000 minutes more and takes corners and frees. Still impressive though obviously.
To be fair, Aguero's been injured a lot. There's been quite a few times where he's been subbed off early or subbed on late, whereas Rooney pretty much starts and finishes every game.
Also those stats are old.
Doesn't matter, still impressive.
It's just proof that Rooney is on that sort of level, whilst obviously not being as good as Aguero. It's true Rooney takes set pieces (not sure why that is an issue, though) and has more minutes, but Man City have scored more goals altogether in that time period, and playing better football.
Sure is, another good point to mention is that Rooney's been playing behind the striker most of the time.
It's not an issue, I only mentioned it as it's obvious he is going to have more assists when he's taking corners. Although obviously it's in Rooney's favor that he can deliver a great set piece, which is something Aguero doesn't have in his locker.
Confuses me when people say this. I mean, surely his corners and free kicks have to be good enough in order to reach his desired target. Yes, Aguero obviously doesn't take free kicks and corners, but that's because he's not good enough, otherwise he would.
Look at Di Maria. The start of the season he took corners from the right side and was pretty poor, hitting the first man almost every time. Van Gaal has now gone back to Van Persie taking the corners.
Rooney is judged far more than any other player in the Utd squad...but what pleases me is he is comparable to any player in the league, no excuses necessary.
Aguero always takes the pen if he's on the pitch, whereas Rooney has had to battle VP. That has to be noted in any comparison too.
Rooney tends to play in several different roles but that's hardly ever taken into account when people judge him. All things considered it's quite the achievement to push out the stats he does, never mind the fact our overall play seems to sink without him in the team.
Aguero just can't take care of himself, that's why the lower amount of minutes. Always injured, broken, tired.
Yeah, it's pretty damning for him when you consider that Rooney is actually quite injury prone himself. He usually misses around a month every season.
Southampton 1:2 Man Utd
What a terrible performance, assist aside. He should never play as a striker when we play a team that plays high defensive line. He was hiding for most of the game, it was really awful to see him ignoring at least 4 or 5passes of his teammates into his feet just for defender to intercept it high on the pitch because he was to lazy to protect the ball.
That was a pretty awful performance from him today. He couldn't control the ball, gave it away a lot as well. Luckily we won and no one is going to really notice but hopefully he's in better form for next week. Nice ball in for the second goal
Struggled against a Southampton side who didn't give him any space, and are generally good defensively. But when we needed a bit of quality, he produced a peach of a ball into the box, from which we scored. And those key contributions at vital moments are what Rooney brings you, even when he's not playing well.
Would love to know if the free kick assist was genuine or if that was over hit.
Possibly his worst 90 minutes in a red shirt today. Utterly hopeless on the ball and his decisions when to run with it were horrendous. Shake it off and move on to the scouse next. Bounce back there and we'll never mention this performance again.
PS the media bias towards him was appalling btw. Sky were scared to pick up on any of his failings.
Possibly his worst 90 minutes in a red shirt today. Utterly hopeless on the ball and his decisions when to run with it were horrendous. Shake it off and move on to the scouse next. Bounce back there and we'll never mention this performance again.
PS the media bias towards him was appalling btw. Sky were scared to pick up on any of his failings.
Godlike assist.
Pointless display, no support for our forwards but he should've been doing better.
It was clearly a deliberate ball into the far post, designed for someone to get on the end of in exactly the way Van Persie did.
Failed at everything he tried today. One of those days for Wayne, and he knew it, as we saw with him whipping out his frustration at the ref throughout the game. He got very lucky with his free kick assist, their goalkeeper completely fecked up by not taking a few steps and clearing that ball. That goalkeeper mistake was just as bad as the back pass for the first goal.
He's always crap when he comes back from injury. You just have to accept it.
Fantastic assist though.
Fantastic assist though.
He was shit, but no more shit than most of our other players. Every time he got the ball he had zero support going forward(except RVP).
It's incredible how much missing only 1 game can affect him. Can't think of a player who benefits from playing 90mins game in, game out, like Rooney does.
Out-performed by Van Persie. How unlikely was that before the game?
Now can we please please have a game where they BOTH play well?!
Now can we please please have a game where they BOTH play well?!
Poor touch and every time he got a yard or several on a Southampton defender I expected the defender to get it back.
The incident before he was fouled by Fonte but got a yellow card when the referee gave it, I thought he could have done better. It's a typical bad Rooney performance, isn't it? 
Great ball in, but yeah it was pretty much a game of real ring rust. Doesn't help when the rest of the midfield didn't show up either, but hopefully he plays better next week.
Very much doubt it had anything to do with a two day injury lay off. It just didn't happen for him within the context of an overall scrappy and disjoined team performance.
Yeah, you could said it by his partner's performance who had the same job. Oh, wait.
And there have been plenty of occasions this season where RvP has struggled and Rooney has played well. Sometimes good players have bad games. That's part and parcel of football, and anyone who doesn't have an agenda to push will recognise that.
Really poor, needs to pick up where he left. Hopefully he's fully fit on Sunday
Looks to me that he is playing poor when he is playing as a striker. I don't remember him having a good game playing striker this season, but he was very good in pretty much every game game when he was playing behind the striker(s).
I knew that will be your answer. I know van Persie was poor this season, I actually criticised him a lot too.
So what point are you trying to make exactly? And what was it about my point that you disagreed with?
I think Van Gaal would offer more as a player than Rooney did today. Utterly terrible performance. Probably worst I can remember from him. We would have been better served if he got sent off and we played with 10.
That your excuse for his performance wasn't really an excuse because van Persie who was usually crap this season played excellent game against the same defence, with same teammates behind him. It was just a poor performance, he'll improve, but don't try to make excuses.
Amar won't get it then.
Are you seriously trying to deny that the opposing defence was a factor in contributing to his poor performance? Because it clearly was. That's not an excuse as much as it's an explanation.
Even so, we're talking about a performance where Rooney pressed a Southampton defender into making a mistake for the first goal, and produced a great ball into the box for the second. RvP finished well on both occasions, and so now he's the hero, and Rooney's the whipping boy.
But that's football forums for you.
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To be fair, there were times when he had the ball up front and there was, literally, no support. All of our players preferred to hang around in our own half. Nevertheless, a poor performance regardless.
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