Player ratings: David De Gea voted top Manchester United man

Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea

You know your team has had a bad day when the goalkeeper is star man - and David de Gea was voted Manchester United's best player against Everton in our brand new player ratings.

De Gea showed just why boss Sir Alex Ferguson splashed out 18m for his services last summer with a string of brilliant saves to deny Everton - even though he was eventually beaten by Marouane Fellaini's header as the Toffees won 1-0.

Our unique ratings system allows fans to mark players out of five in three key areas of their game: effort, technical skill and impact.

We then combine the scores to produce an overall match percentage for each player - and De Gea came out on top with 84 per cent.

The fans' score tallied with our reporter Stuart Mathieson's mark - he gave Spain star De Gea eight in our traditional player ratings (out of 10).

The fans were more generous than Stuart when it came to new boy Shinji Kagawa. Our man awarded the Japanese debutant a seven, but supporters marks gave him a combined score of 82 per cent on the interactive player rater.

The former Borussia Dortmund manlooks to have an impressive all-round game too, gaining good marks for impact, technical skill and effort.

It was up front where the fans really laid into the Reds, with last season's star man Wayne Rooney and Danny Welbeck struggling.

Rooney, who plunde! red 35 g oals last season, looked off the pace against his boyhood side Everton and he was scored at just 48 per cent - histotal dragged down by low impact.

Welbeck just made it to 50 per cent thanks to the effort he put in.

As for new boy Robin van Persie - the dream debut didn't materialise. He came off the bench just before the hour mark but couldn't get into the game as his 56 per cent rating shows. Surely there's more to come from the Reds.

Make sure you take your chance to rate the players when United take on Fulham.

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