Saturday, November 24, 2007

late, late show

the lesson today is about making your chances count, about not making your effort go to waste.

what's the point of getting free-kicks if your delivery is poor? that applies to corners as well.
what's the point of taking the ball past 3,4 defenders if you don't know what to do after that or make a mess out of the final ball/shot?
what's the point of making so much noise when you are on the bench, and then when you are given the chance, you can't grab it with both hands?
what's the point of pumping long balls if you can't do it well or if your striker can't get himself onside?

seriously, i think we played badly. credit to wigan for that.

almunia-6
seriously nothing for him to do in this game

clichy-5
totally out of the game for 80 percent of the match. sure, made a few interceptions, but made poor decisions, played poor balls, and generally very disappointing.

sagna-6
relatively ok. combined well with eboue, den walcott to cause problems down the right.

gallas-7
captain's performance with that goal. but din play well defensively with toure.

toure-6
wasnt the usual commanding force in defence with gallas.

diarra-5
true, when he ran through the midfield, he caused some problems, but i think he was more lucky than skilful. terrible in midfield, losing possession, making stray passes, not winning tackles. basically what do you put him there for?

denilson-6
got caught in possession sometimes when he dawdled too long on the ball, but basically distributed the ball decently, giving us some rhythm.

eboue-6
played better than i expected, causing problems with his pace and dribbling, but when you can't get the final ball in, or make the wrong decision, you have done nothing. but he combined well with walcott.

rosicky-7
grew into the game and started running things. some good incisive passes, held the ball well, and got the second goal.

walcott-7
our most dangerous player until he was stretchered off. his control seems to have improved and this makes him more dangerous when he runs at the defence. striking up a decent partnership with adebayor. very mobile.

adebayor-5
sometimes i really have nothing to say about him. he just can't seem to score. and he is always called offside, which is something i cannot understand, and i cannot stand, because when your teammates play the ball and you are offside, it frustrates them, because you are wasting their effort. i thought he was disappointing.

eduardo-6
still looked out of sorts. i really dunno what to expect when he gets the ball.

bendtner-7
came on for walcott, and showed the van persie quality by laying the ball into sagna's path for him to cross for gallas' goal. what has adebayor been doing? led the surge, then slipped the ball into rosicky's path for rosicky to score. glad he passed to rosicky instead of adebayor. made the impact in 7 minutes; adebayor didnt.

i really dunno wads going on at newcastle, but i tink they arent giving their fans any respect, playing like that in the first half. who was the home team?

and bolton has got guts. finally a team that has the guts to play man u.

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