De Gea – Always on his toes and ready to make a match-winning save when called upon. Should start on Sunday after that performance. 7
Rafael – Failed to get involved with the team’s attacks but did well to win a penalty with one mazy run. Would like to see those runs made more often though. 6
Vidic – A shadow of his former self. Looks week on the ball and sloppy with his tackling. More game time clearly needed before he’s back to his fine best. 5
Evans – Moved the ball around well but also guilty of making some stupid challenges that could have cost us the game. Like Vidic, lucky to not have given away a penalty. 6
Evra – Sturdy and solid. It looks like Büttner’s performance against Wigan has acted as a much needed wake-up call for the Frenchman. About time. 7
Valencia – Extremely frustrating to watch as he lashed at his crosses and misplaced simple passes. Doesn’t seem to understand the idea of ‘one-touch’ play. 4
Scholes – Failed to dominate the midfield battle as you would expect him to. Didn’t stop him from playing some wonderful passes, mind. 6
Carrick – Scored a beauty after some beautiful football. Cool and composed, but failed to build on that early set momentum. 7
Nani – Involved with everything good that happened with our attacking play. Could have cost us 3 points though after an embarrassing penalty. 6
Kagawa – It seems like he’s on a completely different wavelength to the rest of our players when it comes to one-touch football. A delight to watch. 8
Van Persie – Started off well but disappeared as the game pushed on. Seems to have bottled taking the penalty as well. Hope that’s not the case. 5
Subs:
Hernandez – Did really well to make an impact in such a short period of time. Timed his runs perfectly and very unlucky not to get his name on the scoresheet.
7
Welbeck – Made several intelligent runs which opened up space for Hernandez and Nani to run into. 7
Darren Fletcher – Football Genius.
Welbeck N/A? Thought he did well when came on, enough to warrent a score!
I agree that Kagawa should be M.O.M, but I think you meant “different”, not “diffident”.
Can’t wait to have Rooney back, as he’d never have any fear in taking penalties. In the meantime, RVP shld take the responsibility. I don’t know what happened to Nani, he seems to have lost his scoring touch…much like Anderson.
Can’t wait to have Rooney back, as he’d never have any fear in taking penalties. In the meantime, RVP shld take the responsibility. I don’t know what happened to Nani, he seems to have lost his scoring touch.
Can’t wait to have Rooney back, as he’d never have any fear in taking penalties. In the meantime, RVP shld take the responsibility.
Thought Valencia deserved a bit better. did well in all but crossing & sometimes i think we need a few more players with arial prescense & good position, instead of always waiting for ground balls at the back post.
Kagawa!!!!
I honestly think Evra is benefitting from having getting rest due to Buttner, as well as the threat to his position.
Disagree with quite a number of the ratings.
Rafael was quite solid at the back, very energetic and always ready to support the attack. Really happy at his injury free spell atm.
Vidic, while not back at his best, was good. That he almost conceded a penalty early on was due to Evra’s sloppy pass.
Nani did well imo and was the only person who could link up well with Kagawa’s neat one touch passing. A bit stingy there with the rating despite the missed penalty.