- Feb 21, 2006
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After todays match, i feel a horrific refereeing decesion, some sloppy defending and bad luck cost us the game.
We must IMO do two things, 1 improve as a team defensively and 2 if we are to go the places we want to, then buy a few new players especially defenders, a few players in our team below i feel are either over or under-rated:
1.Robbo-UNDER-RATED->I actually think Robbo is a decent goalie, he's a decent reflex goalie/shot-stopper and his kicking is phenominal, has been poor on occasions for the past season and a half but mainly due to a lack of confidence and an absoloutely exposed defence, when teams attack us they get golden oppertunities.
2.Chimbonda-OVER RATED!-> I think he is very athletic and his heading ability is out of this world, but positionally he's not great, defensively 1 vs 1 he's not the best, attacking wise he posses a decent threat BUT his crossing is below-par AND i've really noticed time and again he takes too many touches and loses us possession of the ball. I feel Stalteri may actually be better-see, contriversial.
3.Dawson-OVER RATED! -> He's really been exposed lately, i used to think he was a top class CB, yes he can head, but too often he fouls, he's quite slow and lately especially he just makes far too many sloppy errors which a top class CB wouldn't make.
4.Jenas-UNDERRATED -> His work-rate is brilliant, he wins alot of tackles, missplaces few passes, has some decent movement and his positioning is very good. If he has the right CM partner either a very attacking creative player i.e Riquelme who'd let him do a more all-round job, working hard and doing more defensive work and simple passing then he'd flourish OR another all-round box-box player i.e Mendes, Poulsen, who can defend and attack so Jenas can do his box-box role and which ever he's doing(defening or driving forward) the other guy would be comfortable with doing the opposite, again he'd look like a top class player. Zokora is too limited a partner IMO Tainio would be best and has proved it in the past. We lack energy and fight in the CM without JJ and some people just don't notice what he contributes to the team.
5.Malbranque- VASTLY UNDER RATED! -> the amount of tackles that he wins is unbelieveable. He can head a bit for a small guy, a bit one footed but usually creates danger with some lovely through balls and he pops up with a few goals every now and then, he's also a tireless runner.
views?
I feel that aswell as our team balance not being quite right, we could do with a new RB and 2 CB's and Robbo just needs his confidence back as remember when we first signed him, he was 3rd best goalie behind Cech and Van Der Sar, and we were keeping clean sheets for fun when we nearly came 4th with a defence of:Stalteri,King,Dawson/Lee.Y.P
We must IMO do two things, 1 improve as a team defensively and 2 if we are to go the places we want to, then buy a few new players especially defenders, a few players in our team below i feel are either over or under-rated:
1.Robbo-UNDER-RATED->I actually think Robbo is a decent goalie, he's a decent reflex goalie/shot-stopper and his kicking is phenominal, has been poor on occasions for the past season and a half but mainly due to a lack of confidence and an absoloutely exposed defence, when teams attack us they get golden oppertunities.
2.Chimbonda-OVER RATED!-> I think he is very athletic and his heading ability is out of this world, but positionally he's not great, defensively 1 vs 1 he's not the best, attacking wise he posses a decent threat BUT his crossing is below-par AND i've really noticed time and again he takes too many touches and loses us possession of the ball. I feel Stalteri may actually be better-see, contriversial.
3.Dawson-OVER RATED! -> He's really been exposed lately, i used to think he was a top class CB, yes he can head, but too often he fouls, he's quite slow and lately especially he just makes far too many sloppy errors which a top class CB wouldn't make.
4.Jenas-UNDERRATED -> His work-rate is brilliant, he wins alot of tackles, missplaces few passes, has some decent movement and his positioning is very good. If he has the right CM partner either a very attacking creative player i.e Riquelme who'd let him do a more all-round job, working hard and doing more defensive work and simple passing then he'd flourish OR another all-round box-box player i.e Mendes, Poulsen, who can defend and attack so Jenas can do his box-box role and which ever he's doing(defening or driving forward) the other guy would be comfortable with doing the opposite, again he'd look like a top class player. Zokora is too limited a partner IMO Tainio would be best and has proved it in the past. We lack energy and fight in the CM without JJ and some people just don't notice what he contributes to the team.
5.Malbranque- VASTLY UNDER RATED! -> the amount of tackles that he wins is unbelieveable. He can head a bit for a small guy, a bit one footed but usually creates danger with some lovely through balls and he pops up with a few goals every now and then, he's also a tireless runner.
views?
I feel that aswell as our team balance not being quite right, we could do with a new RB and 2 CB's and Robbo just needs his confidence back as remember when we first signed him, he was 3rd best goalie behind Cech and Van Der Sar, and we were keeping clean sheets for fun when we nearly came 4th with a defence of:Stalteri,King,Dawson/Lee.Y.P