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I'm quite pissed off with Naughton. I thought he wasn't good enough and would get found out tonight. Made me look a right bellend
It was a decent performance, wouldn't rate anyone higher than a 7 or lower than a 6. Walker was decent in defence, Dembele is a great signing. Really impressed by Lloris' positioning, even though he had nothing to do as such, he still managed to make it look like he was playing well by being involved.
Lloris - 6.5
Walker - 5.5
Caulker - 7.5
Vertonghen - 8
Naughton - 6
Lennon - 6
Sandro - 6
Dembele - 7
Dempsey - 6
Bale - 6
Defoe - 6
SUBS:
Sigurdsson - 5.5
Townsend - 6
Hard done by for 2 of the 3 disallowed goals. That said Lazio had a couple of good chances too. As I said eleswhere that midfield 3 lacked guile.....no not in the way Dembele glides effortlessly past players or the way Sandro positions his body so well in getting in front of the opponent when covering or not even the neat way Dempsey connected the play. No we lacked the guile that big Tom cold supply with his intelligent passing. With Huddlestone not getting a minute we were laboured, predictable and playing largely in front of centre backs with a combined age around 70. Defoe played the best two balls of the night and you could hardly call him visionary as a passer. Huddlestone moves the ball quicker and more precisly than the honest hard working Sandro.....we needed to change the balance today especially in the last half an hour
Lloris - 6.5
Walker - 5.5
Caulker - 7.5
Vertonghen - 8
Naughton - 6
Lennon - 6
Sandro - 6
Dembele - 7
Dempsey - 6
Bale - 6
Defoe - 6
SUBS:
Sigurdsson - 5.5
Townsend - 6
Hard done by for 2 of the 3 disallowed goals. That said Lazio had a couple of good chances too. As I said eleswhere that midfield 3 lacked guile.....no not in the way Dembele glides effortlessly past players or the way Sandro positions his body so well in getting in front of the opponent when covering or not even the neat way Dempsey connected the play. No we lacked the guile that big Tom cold supply with his intelligent passing. With Huddlestone not getting a minute we were laboured, predictable and playing largely in front of centre backs with a combined age around 70. Defoe played the best two balls of the night and you could hardly call him visionary as a passer. Huddlestone moves the ball quicker and more precisly than the honest hard working Sandro.....we needed to change the balance today especially in the last half an hour
His warm-up was something to behold......The Daily Fail just gets better and better "youngsters Andros Townsend and Ryan Mason also aquitted themselves well..." Mason played for 2 seconds! Do they watch matches at the Daily Fail?
1) I have no problem with someone disagreeing with my opinion, 2) fact is in the Reading Ratings Thread 9 people disagreed with my ratings and none agreed!! (Despite these not being "crazy" or "offensive"). 3) After those users disagreed with me, I did not go and find the last post from each and every one of them to administer a negative or dumb rating out of spite. 4) That in my opinion would have been childish, and petty. 5) I took the disagreements on the chin as 6) they were genuine from users who did not agree with my assessment of the game - 7) that is fair enough.
8) I disagreed on this thread because I disagreed with his match ratings (shock horror) - 9) I fail to see how this is problematic? 10) Omar gave a dumb to my post on the Reading match day thread in response to my disagreement with him on this thread, not based on an opinion or reasonable argument but based on the fact that I hurt his emotions by disagreeing with him.
11) To be honest I am not that fussed about who agrees with me or not, 12) I am not here to blow smoke up your arse Omar’s arse or anyone else’s. 13) But if you are going to rate posts then do it genuinely, based on what is stated rather than doing it in spite.
No offence, and I'm not going to neg it, but that is literally fucking mental.
Its why I started the thread about who should be LB for the QPR game and was surprised that nearly everybody thought Naughton should be a shoe in for it. I'm not saying that he should be over looked, no way, but I think we were lop sided at times last night.
I agree with Bear that he's filling in well enough, but we are losing impetus down that left hand side on the ball.
You remember how much abuse I took in the daily ITK discussions in the final week when I said we really need to buy a back up LB in case BAE gets injured?
Well here we are and we are desperately short of a back up LB, not knocking Naughton as he is equipping himself well, however he is clearly a RB and at the moment we have no experienced FB cover on either flank.
Its why I started the thread about who should be LB for the QPR game and was surprised that nearly everybody thought Naughton should be a shoe in for it. I'm not saying that he should be over looked, no way, but I think we were lop sided at times last night.
I agree with Bear that he's filling in well enough, but we are losing impetus down that left hand side on the ball.