Kuszczak O'Shea Smalling Vidic Evra Gibson Scholes Anderson Valencia Berbatov Nani Owen Fabio Carrick
Kuszczak 7 - His ability to make a save isn't in question. It's the other attributes... O'Shea 5 - Smalling 7 - Vidic 6.5 - Evra 7 - Gibson 5 - Scholes 6.5 - Anderson 6.5 - Valencia 7 - Berbatov 6.5 - Nani 7.5 - The frustrating thing about a footballing genius is that they tend to be a genius in their own way and not necessarily be an efficient genius. Still, they can win you games on their own... Owen N/A Fabio N/A Carrick N/A
Kuszczak - 6.5 O'Shea - 6 Smalling - 6 Vidic - 6 Evra - 7 Gibson - 6 Scholes - 6.5 Anderson - 7 Valencia - 7 Berbatov - 7 Nani - 8
Kuszczak - 6 O'Shea - 6 Smalling - 7.5 Vidic - 7 Evra - 7 Gibson - 6 Scholes - 6.5 Anderson - 6.5 Valencia - 8 Berbatov - 7 Nani - 7.5 Owen n/a Fabio n/a Carrick n/a Job done. Always nice to have a game like this that costs less energy than you expected, particularly during the run-in.
Kuszczak - 6 - poor kicking, as usual O'Shea - 6.5 Smalling - 7 Vidic - 6.5 Evra - 7.5 - his best game in a long time; some great stuff from Pat today Gibson - 6 Scholes - 6 Anderson - 6.5 Valencia - 7.5 - superb Berbatov - 6.5 Nani - 8 - MoM
Kuszczak 6 - poor kicking, a drop but an amazing save O'Shea 6 - untroubled Smalling 7 - this kid Vidic 7.5 - ho hum Evra 6.5 - quite good Gibson 6.5 - didn't do much wrong that I could tell Scholes 8 - made me several times Anderson 7 - looked sharp in everything but shooting. shock/horror Valencia 7.5 - was he gone? doesn't seem like it Berbatov 7 - bitched and moaned EVERY time someone didn't do what he wanted Nani 8.5 pretty damned special out there Owen Fabio Carrick N/A the lot of them
Kuszczak - 5.5 glad he's leaving O'Shea - 6 Smalling - 7 Vidic - 7 Evra - 7 Thats more like it. Gibson 6 Scholes - 7 Anderson - 6.5 Valencia - 7.5 Berbatov - 7.5 needs to shut up and play Nani - 8 MOM Owen Fabio Carrick
Kuszczak - 6 - great shot-stopping but the rest of the game is just not MUQ O'Shea - 6 Smalling - 7 Vidic - 7 Evra - 7 Gibson 6 Scholes - 7 Anderson - 5.5- good to see him playing but he was wasteful Valencia - 7 Berbatov - 6 - scored but did little else Nani - 7.5 - Owen - 5 - rusty Fabio - 6 Carrick- n/a
So people didn't feel Nani was particularly guilty of that complacent, lacksadaisical 2nd half approach that SAF lamented? I'm all for us turning on the style when we're in control but he was guilty of overdoing things quite a few times. For example that move where Berba passed to him and Nani declined the quick backheel, dragged the ball the other way, then back again to make the backheel that was no longer on. There were quite a few cases like that where he opted to overdo things and ended up slowing the play down/denying team-mates an opportunity to shine. I'm hardly upset about it - I'd sooner we were lacksadaisical and won than spent too much energy/picked up injuries for the sake of a few more goals. But I thought his performance dropped off in the second half more than, say, Valencia's.