Rose wasn't great, he squandered a few opportunities but Bale was still worse.
He is at his best when he plays on the wing yet it takes him almost eighty minutes before he runs at the defender, not good enough.
Why must he run at a defender when we were in such a strong position? You could loose it, an cause them to have a counter attack. In these situations play for possession and build your chances rather then create them from nothing. The sensible and correct option is to play the easy ball. Bale did this. He didn't have a great game but still helped us develop chances. If gio played instead of him we would of been worse because of it.
Team ahead of individualism
It's definitely an issue. I was very frustrated with what we were doing on our left side. I know it's not a new phenomenon but why we have to watch Bale hovering on the edge of the D waiting for something to happen when HE should be the one making something happen is very aggravating.
Have to agree and been saying this for weeks, our forwards are clueless in the final third. Bale was very poor but Rose was aweful on the left. Danny looked like he didn't want the ball, at all, happy to tackle etc but going forward, shite!
Rose wasn't crap defensively he just made some iffy decisions going forward , I doubt eagles will do much against him.How many times did Rose lose possession, put in poor crosses and misplaced passes.
Bale was far off of his best today, but I thought Rose was absymal - if it hadnt been for the fact Blackburn are absolute dogshit, we would have had problems down the right side.
It'll be interesting to see how Rose fairs away to Bolton next week, I can see Eagles giving him the run around.