the rout that never was
roy keane can be very proud of sunderland, but give us credit, because we could have ended up on the wrong side of a 'classic' match. and that is not very nice, i can assure you.
it was absolutely crap that we allowed them to claw back from 0-2 down to 2-2. i thought our defending was bad, because our midfield wasn't getting all those 2nd balls. we have possession, but we tend to give them the ball back when we clear crosses. and this little possession that we return to them is actually very dangerous, because we are giving them a second chance to come at us straight again. that was how their first goal came about. of course, that kind of shot should have been easily dealt with; i didn't know what diaby, almunia and the defender on the line were doing. another thing we must understand is that letting your opponents pass around your box is very dangerous. that was how the second goal came about. i thought that our central midfield has been sitting too deep all this while, not just today. but it is a very delicate balance because you do need someone to just sit in front of your defence. i suppose it is a tradeoff, which is even more pronounced in our case because of the fact that 3 of our 4 midfielders are probably gonna be very offensive-minded. i think we need to work on our defence, because it is very disappointing to concede two goals to sunderland at home, and with all due credit to sunderland, they din have many clear chances other than these two. so they were accurate, which means we were crap.
but i tink we should be given credit because at 2-2, we could ahve lost everything. but we got the winner. and that is very important, because i think we should not just aim for an unbeaten home record, but also to get maybe 14 wins at home.
we put the ball in sunderland's net 4 times in the first 20 minutes. first, when the referee had already blown the whistle for a foul on fabregas just a few seconds before. but it didnt matter because van persie smashed the free-kick in. 3rdd was senderos' goal. 4th was when diaby smashed in hleb's low cross. the flag flew up, apparently because the linesman thought van persie was offside.
and we hit the post twice. toure and walcott. and adebayor should have scored when he turned the defender, only for him to place his shot just wide. so typical of him.
we should have demolished sunderland. but we made things hard for ourselves. thankfully, we pulled it off, but there is alot of things to work out.
i hope rosicky comes back soon, because diaby's left foot is like totally useless, and his style of play, while so effective against derby, has been somewhat of a liability these few games. too slow.
it was absolutely crap that we allowed them to claw back from 0-2 down to 2-2. i thought our defending was bad, because our midfield wasn't getting all those 2nd balls. we have possession, but we tend to give them the ball back when we clear crosses. and this little possession that we return to them is actually very dangerous, because we are giving them a second chance to come at us straight again. that was how their first goal came about. of course, that kind of shot should have been easily dealt with; i didn't know what diaby, almunia and the defender on the line were doing. another thing we must understand is that letting your opponents pass around your box is very dangerous. that was how the second goal came about. i thought that our central midfield has been sitting too deep all this while, not just today. but it is a very delicate balance because you do need someone to just sit in front of your defence. i suppose it is a tradeoff, which is even more pronounced in our case because of the fact that 3 of our 4 midfielders are probably gonna be very offensive-minded. i think we need to work on our defence, because it is very disappointing to concede two goals to sunderland at home, and with all due credit to sunderland, they din have many clear chances other than these two. so they were accurate, which means we were crap.
but i tink we should be given credit because at 2-2, we could ahve lost everything. but we got the winner. and that is very important, because i think we should not just aim for an unbeaten home record, but also to get maybe 14 wins at home.
we put the ball in sunderland's net 4 times in the first 20 minutes. first, when the referee had already blown the whistle for a foul on fabregas just a few seconds before. but it didnt matter because van persie smashed the free-kick in. 3rdd was senderos' goal. 4th was when diaby smashed in hleb's low cross. the flag flew up, apparently because the linesman thought van persie was offside.
and we hit the post twice. toure and walcott. and adebayor should have scored when he turned the defender, only for him to place his shot just wide. so typical of him.
we should have demolished sunderland. but we made things hard for ourselves. thankfully, we pulled it off, but there is alot of things to work out.
i hope rosicky comes back soon, because diaby's left foot is like totally useless, and his style of play, while so effective against derby, has been somewhat of a liability these few games. too slow.
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