Wayne Rooney is の近くにing in on 30 and a 失望させるing night in Moscow showed how much he needs pace around him to 栄える

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When he was asked by a ロシアの 新聞記者／雑誌記者 at the Khimki 円形競技場 on the eve of this game what he wants for his 30th birthday on Saturday, Wayne Rooney was momentarily lost for words.

Three points against CSKA Moscow wouldn’t be bad for starters was the 結局の 返答, but Rooney and his team-mates couldn’t 配達する it on what was a 深く，強烈に 失望させるing night for the Manchester 部隊d captain.

It was a muted way indeed to kick off the birthday 祝賀s.

Wayne Rooney looks to spread the ball and start up a Manchester 部隊d attack in Moscow

The England international looks to the heavens after 行方不明の an 適切な時期 in the first half

Time and again, he 跡をつけるd 支援する and 前へ／外へ across the pitch hoping in vain for something to 料金d off, his breath 明白な as he huffed and puffed in the chilly Moscow 空気／公表する. It rarely （機の）カム.

Louis 先頭 Gaal’s team were 簡単に too 歩行者, too predictable in their methodical build-up. These days there is previous little 証拠 of the cavalier 削減（する） and thrust that epitomised 部隊d under Sir Alex Ferguson.

‘Wayne’s no good if he doesn’t have pace around him,’ his former team-mate Paul Scholes 観察するd on BT Sport.

The 部隊d players return to the centre circle after CSKA Moscow opened the 得点する／非難する／２０ing?

‘I was 正確に／まさに the same. Wayne’s not getting that so it makes him look not the player he should be.’

Consider this. Daley Blind （機の）カム on as a 代用品，人 in the 63rd minute and still had more touches (47-40) and played more passes (36-27) than Rooney by 十分な-time. Of the starting XI, only David de Gea touched the ball いっそう少なく.?

As he enters his fourth １０年間, Rooney’s 願望（する） has 明確に not 減らすd, even on difficult nights like this one.

Rooney 試みる／企てるs to 取り組む?Sergei Ignashevich and 勝利，勝つ 支援する 所有／入手 for the Red Devils?

That much was （疑いを）晴らす from his 失望／欲求不満 as he led the line in, at times, a lonely 戦う／戦い against the ロシアのs’ defence.

‘Your 30th birthday is a big one in anyone’s life but I still feel that I have a lot of years ahead of me,’ he said before this game. ‘For me, it’s a number.’

必然的に, age has changed Rooney. This week 示すd another important 周年記念日 in his life, 13 years since he 断言するd his burgeoning 評判 with that 素晴らしい first 首相 League goal for Everton against 兵器庫, and he is no longer the same 軍隊 of nature.

The 29-year-old 試みる／企てるs to 解除する the ball over the on-急ぐing Igor Akinfeev but his 成果／努力 was （疑いを）晴らすd?

He selects more carefully when to make his runs these days, sensibly 保存するing his energy. On Wednesday night, most of his 成果／努力s were in vain.

Only once did he come の近くに to その上の 狭くするing the 13-goal gap on Sir Bobby Charlton’s 記録，記録的な／記録する for 部隊d ― or the two he needs to equal Ruud 先頭 Nistelrooy’s 示す in Europe ― with a 近づく-地位，任命する header straight at CSKA goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev from Ander Herrera’s cross just after the hour 示す.

He threw his 長，率いる 支援する in obvious 失望／欲求不満 when Bastian Schweinsteiger failed to send him （疑いを）晴らす with a misplaced pass in the first half, and again after Herrera tried to put him through one-on-one against the last defender but the ball 避けるd him by インチs.?

Rooney argues with 審判（をする） Carlos Velasco Carballo fouling a 肺 on team-mate 足緒 Lingard

The 部隊d captain has a long 範囲 strike which failed to trouble the CSKA goalkeeper?

Rooney’s first proper sight of goal did not come until eight minutes before half-time, and even then he was 25 yards from Akinfeev’s 逮捕する when he collected a pass from Morgan Schneiderlin and turned to shoot.

His curling 成果／努力 was never going to trouble the CSKA keeper, though, drifting harmlessly wide from the moment it left his 権利 boot.

It was left to Anthony 戦争の to pull 部隊d level, cancelling out Seydou Doumbia’s first-half strike.

The 決定的な point will have gone some way to 緩和 Rooney’s exasperation.

He knows the goals will come and those other 記録，記録的な／記録するs will 落ちる. He will just have to wait until he ’s in his thirties.?

Anthony 戦争の runs off to celebrate, with Rooney just behind, as 部隊d 海難救助d a point in Moscow?