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12 Feb 2015 02:14:48
Di Maria: where is he best deployed?

We know he is outstanding as a center mid who can pick up the ball from deep and run at the opposition. It worked at Real Madrid, but that was a very unique situation to have Ronaldo and Bale as the two wingers, who forced the opposing back four to deal with their threat.

In a diamond midfield, I see it only working with a very mobile front two, like last year at Liverpool, where they had Sterling behind Suarez and Sturridge. Currently, Falcao and RVP are not fast enough to chase 50-50 balls in the channels. Opposing defenders know this so they can play a high line and compress the space for Di Maria in the MF. Down the road, if Wilson is first choice as the #9, that might mean more space for Di Maria as a CM.

That being said, maybe for us, his best position will be as a winger. On the wing, it does seem easier to release him on the break, as Herrera did twice in the second half today. And he may become a better provider to the strikers as a winger.

A lot of this comes down to our imbalanced squad. So the question is how do we get the most out of him this year, and will his role change next year with the right additions?

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12 Feb 2015 07:02:33
He would be best deployed on the bench at the moment. He has been awful for us this season. He is getting into the team on reputation rather than merit.

Many will dislike this post and disagree with it because they see the name Di Maria and a £57million price tag. But the intelligent fans will understand where I am coming from.

So is rvp he should be benched aswell

And play who on the wing? Januzaj? Do me a favour.

I think AdM played well on the left of the diamond wwhen he was scoring and assisting.

12 Feb 2015 08:38:13
Recently Januzaj has been better than Di Maria. He is not performing so he shouldn't be on the park.

I agree, the player who directly contributed to two of our goals last night should be dropped in favour of the one who has been struggling to produce any decent end product all season.

Di Maria is a top quality player, and when he is played with actual midfield players he will perform. The issue is that he is primarily playing in a system that is static and too compact. Last night when we shifted to a traditional 4-4-2 he has more space and looked really dangerous on the break. For me the biggest issue is playing two outright strikers. We need some width upfront so the opposition is stretched. RVP and Falcao don't provide this so it all becomes too centralised.

12 Feb 2015 09:16:16
Is Januzaj the new flavour of the month to slag off ala Fletcher, Gibson? He is still extremely young and hasn't played amazingly well this season, but you have to give youngsters time to flourish, not just get on their back after a few bad games.

12 Feb 2015 09:31:57
Danny has it spot on!

When we went to 4-4-2 we opened up a lot of Space. DiMaria made at least 3-4 decent runs two were penalties in my eyes. Him and Adnan had at least 3 around them every time they ran with the ball. Having Herrera in the Centre he was able to pick out that space, we need that vision. Our wide players need that vision. I thought Di'Maria showed signs of returning to his best last night

One jibe I have is RVP, his hold up play is slowing down our counters. He's coming way to deep for the ball, on more than one occasion he had an overlap of play and took too many touches giving Burnley time to re-organise. It's frustrating he's turning into the new Berbatov to be honest.

Blind and Herrera are a good centre mid prospect, possibly with mata in the 10 role, DiMaria and Adnan adding the pace and Rooney on his own up top.

Evans needs to be dropped our defence is all over the place when he plays

12 Feb 2015 09:40:07
All well and good making your points Juanmatasbeard but its awfully hard to hear you from up on that high horse. 'The intelligent fans will understand where I'm coming from.' So anyone who disagrees isn't intelligent? Try to be a little less condescending.

12 Feb 2015 09:54:09
rosie,

That's what I thought but didn't want to bite, it is a tactic which is used all too often in debates to suggest 'my opinion is more valid than your opinion' as is extremely condescending.

I think Januzaj is struggling with this formation and tactics he has bags of ability but he just seems scared of losing the ball which in turn is making him lose the ball but we are in for a very hard end of season after LvG's comments about rooney and rvp last night

12 Feb 2015 11:01:22
Who is on their high horse? It's not a case of my opinion is better it is a case of some people are too naive or in-adept to see things rational and clear. For instance everyone is full of praise for Di Maria because he put in a good cross and won a penalty. On the flip side of the coin he has been shocking almost every other game this year and cost us a goal last night as he was wasteful umpteen times.

Now the intelligent fan would say wait a minute this guy is not performing and hasn't been for a while. The moronic fan would say Di Maria set up two goals last night he is un-droppable. C'mon.

Juan,
I think in your effort to explain that you actually meant no harm, you rather seem to have dug a deeper hole. I don't think anyone that looks at a glass as half full is a moron. Let's try to respect each others opinions without being judgmental.
Utd 4 Lyf!

12 Feb 2015 11:56:42
Ok Mbd. I think your reading a little too much into things.

Maybe :)

12 Feb 2015 15:33:18
You pretty much just repeated your argument pal. 'This is my opinion and if you don't agree with it you're a hedgehog'.

12 Feb 2015 20:43:51
I think your your forgiving yourself to find words that aren't there Rosie.





 

 

 
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