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Your support makes all the difference.Manchester United legend Paul Scholes says that Wayne Rooney's mediocre performance in the 1-1 draw against CSKA Moscow is because there is no pace around him in Louis van Gaal's side.
The former midfielder, who won numerous trophies under Sir Alex Ferguson including the European Cup twice, admitted that he was exactly the same during his prime.
Anthony Martial made amends for an earlier handball that led to a penalty by scoring a second-half header, but Rooney was again subdued, even if he improved as the game wore on.
"Wayne Rooney is no good if he doesn't have pace around him. I was exactly the same," Scholes said on BT Sport.
"I need pace, I need movement around me and in front of me and Wayne Rooney's not getting that and it makes him look not the player that he should be."
"@WayneRooney needs pace around him like I did!" Scholes believes the striker is suffering due to @ManUtd's attack. https://t.co/iG5HxqmkNI
— BT Sport Football (@btsportfootball) October 21, 2015 Scholes added that the result wasn't a bad one as United would have been happy to take a point, but he was disappointed by the performance.
"You have to take into consideration that you're going away to moscow, before the game you take a point," he added. "However they play, whatever the performance is like. But when you watch Man United you expect them to be better, you expect them to be more creative. You expect players to run with a bit of penetration.
"They did a little bit better in the second half, Jesse [Lingard] started running, Antonio Valencia started running, they started getting players in the box all of a sudden and that's where the goals came from.
"I think all in all it's a not a bad away performance, it's a point and a point that will probably see them through."
Former United team-mate Rio Ferdinand, also in the BT Sport studio, added that he was "squirming" during the first half of the match as United were outplayed by their Russian opponents.
"We were sitting in here in the first-half squirming really at the way Man United were playing, it was slow, it was pedestrian. No real thrust in the team," he said.
"Second half they came out and had players running off the ball a bit more, putting people in the box, which they didn't fo in the first half and they got their rewards."
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