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Sounds like he agrees
Fair play to him.
Sounds like he agrees
BC, I agree with your whole assessment completely, other than Walker. Not sure if you're trying to counter not being too hard on him for having a pretty set opinion on him, but you're rating is pretty generous.
I'm a fan of Walker's but he was sloppy today, very. Hand a hand in all three goals really, and the first one was dreadful.
Hasn't he gone off to study economic philosophy, or summit mg:mg:mg:
He's a youth interntional too. Go figure.
Classic.*mimes joke going over head* :lol:
Look at the dude on the back of a £20 note, should become clearer...
BC, I agree with your whole assessment completely, other than Walker. Not sure if you're trying to counter not being too hard on him for having a pretty set opinion on him, but you're rating is pretty generous.
I'm a fan of Walker's but he was sloppy today, very. Hand a hand in all three goals really, and the first one was dreadful.
BC, I agree with your whole assessment completely, other than Walker. Not sure if you're trying to counter not being too hard on him for having a pretty set opinion on him, but you're rating is pretty generous.
I'm a fan of Walker's but he was sloppy today, very. Hand a hand in all three goals really, and the first one was dreadful.
A break a break my kingdom for a break.
We can't seem to buy one against those ****s.
To start at the beginning, I have to credit Redknapp. His selections were pretty much forced on him, but he could have been tempted to keep Modric central and put Kranjcar wide, but he didn't and the line up worked and it worked because more importantly he made sure we pressed better today, and whenever we do this, we look a much better side. I just wish we could do it more.
The first half performance was excellent, and was a clear reminder that Modric in CM isn't mandatory for ball domination or a good performance. We were pressing them out of the ball and doing all the right things on it ourselves. What started it though was after the first 5 minutes of ManU looking bright, we had a little spell where we got hold of the ball and passed it around the back and side to side. Cue the wankers behind me grumbling about the ball not going forwards. But we built from this little spell. By starving ManU of the ball for a few minutes we took the wind from their sails and didn't look back for at least an hour. Having proved we could keep it from them we seemed to grow in confidence and for the rest of the half played all the football.
Then history repeated itself. We don't get the breaks and they do. We were unlucky first of all that our player found himself in the way of a goal, then unlucky that he gets given handball for the goal he scores. Then Utd go up the other end and score to give the half a completely unjust scoreline.
Second half we come out and are still on top when Modric disengages his brain and we somehow find ourselves two down. We continued top plug away but started to get a bit long ball, and the third goal, scored by the otherwise pretty shit Young, really killed us. Heads visibly dropped, understandably.
Lennon was good enough today to make Bale's absence unnoticeable. Livermore had a pretty decent game too. He didn't do anything spectacular, but just did plenty of good simple stuff that helped us dominate the middle of the pitch. Both strikers worked hard.
We did lots of things right collectively today, but were let down by a couple of small individual errors and the lack of a lucky break.
Ratings:
Friedel 6 - He's a solid line limpet, but I really hope our next keeper is far more proactive.
Walker 6.5 - He was Ok today, and he works hard, seeing quite a lot of the ball today, but was culpable for the first goal I think.
Kaboul 7 - OK.
King 7 - OK.
Ekotto 7 - Played quite well, saw plenty of ball.
Lennon 7.5 - Was very bright today and worked hard.
Livermore 7.5 - Good game
Sandro 7.5 - Good game. His early biting helped establish our stronghold on the midfield, he refused to let Scholes settle on the ball.
Modric 7 - I thought he was good today generally, and I like it when he has less responsibility, but was heavily culpable for the second goal.
Saha 6.5 - Worked hard.
Adebayor 7 - Worked hard.
*mimes joke going over head* :lol:
Look at the dude on the back of a £20 note, should become clearer...
Classic.
Make a post about a joke going over someone's head and my joke was an eighteenth century economist is a youth international.
What I also noticed was for all the people who were really slating Livermore a few weeks back, not one of them gave him credit for putting in a good performance against one of the best teams in the land yesterday.
Credit where credit's due? No, silence...and you can be sure the next questionable performance he produces they'll be all over it.
Plenty have given him credit and rightly so, but those wern't the ones saying he offers fuck all.
Not me...I defended him all along as I think he is a pretty decent squad player.
What I also noticed was for all the people who were really slating Livermore a few weeks back, not one of them gave him credit for putting in a good performance against one of the best teams in the land yesterday.
Credit where credit's due? No, silence...and you can be sure the next questionable performance he produces they'll be all over it.
Plenty have given him credit and rightly so, but those wern't the ones saying he offers fuck all.
Even though he isn't that young, he's young in terms of his experience in playing for the first team. As he acquires more experience his confidence should grow. Never going to be an easy on the eye player but he could turn out to be a very effective squad player who will come in and out of the side and give his all. I was impressed with his passing yesterday against one of the best sides in the Country, and that should really build his confidence.
Having defended him also I agree with you Mr Pink, I thought in particular he spread the play very well yesterday, I didnt think he had that passing range in his locker if I'm being honest. He's progressing nicely I think, especially in the last few league games he has played.