- Apr 17, 2004
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ray:Well done Bent. Looks good on youtube.....maybe we now can get 8 mill for him?
ray:Well done Bent. Looks good on youtube.....maybe we now can get 8 mill for him?
I think that Bent is all about service.
If we get decent crosses and through-balls to him he will score and assist.
He's never going to drop deep and get the ball so is always liable to disappear from games which is something we saw from Defoe, especially over 90 minutes.
But if the likes of Huddlestone can get the ball to him in the right places it shows why his goals/assists ratio (excluding penalties) and shot accuracy is on a par with Berbatov's (cheers to Bobbins and SS57 for those facts).
He might not possess the bells and whistles of our other strikers but with the right midfield could actually be just as effective.
Keane came too deep today, really pissed me off, it needed stretching, and that's exactly what Bent did.
It says enough that he got MoM from skysports after playing juts 20 minutes.
Also, The Bent and Hudd partnership could be awesome in a 4-5-1 backs against the wall job. If Pompey had have had Bent instead of Kanu they probably would have won today; felt Kanu's lack of mobility allowed Daws and Woody to push high up the pitch and stifle them. Bent has the ability to make the playing space on the pitch a full 40 yards longer.
I wonder what Defoe was telling him in the tunnel before the game? :wink:
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Did JD ever come off the bench and change a game??
I think Darren had a good game, this will certainly boost his confidence and I hope that he will use it well to start converting more goals..
Darren Bent is a classic striker, whereby he needs a good supply line of service and he'll bang them away..right foot left foot head.
If Berbatov and Bent where to play the same amount of games, my money would be on Bent to score more goals.