After Manchester United’s 1-0 win over Crystal Palace on Saturday Van Gaal replaced Di MarÃa after 71 minutes, saying of the Argentinian: “He has played in a very small space and he is a dribbler. But sometimes you cannot dribble, you have to make it a pass game and Di MarÃa is not a player who wants to give a pass every time he gets the ball Therefore he lost the ball a lot of times and that was not good for the balance of the team.” That echoes what Ancelotti says: "Di MarÃa could take matches by storm with his energy, but he also used to lose control sometimes, misplacing important passes.”
In the PL 10: 1. Aguero 2. Costa 3. Sanchez 4. Fabregas 5. Di Maria 6. Fabregas 7. Matic 8. Hazard 9. De Gea 10. Cahill Right now, based in this season those are the best ten players, so Di Maria has been pretty good tbh. Thing is he's a winger and wingers are meant to deliver to the strikers, if the strikers are poor, which they have been, then the results are poor.
Going on this season they have been better so far, Fabregas has been so good he is on the list twice lol
