Irony - Delayed match ratings

[Bus-Conductor]

Obviously this is going to receive short shrif as events have over taken us all but I wanted to make a couple of points.

Here's the Irony. For the first time ever Jol dropped Dawson.
Here's the other irony, typically Gardner manage to injure himself for the zillionth time when opportunity knocked. Poor ****.

Another irony was that berbatov had his best game of the season, actually worked his nuts off. I much prefer him sitting deeper and holding up for Defoe than keane sitting deeper (which usually means Kene getting in he way and flapping alot).

In general it was a weird night. (I didn't realise Jol had been given the tin tac until I got to NP). A disjointed, nervy performance, The worst crowd atmosphere at WHL for along time until a few bouts of Jol tunes seemed to stir us a bit. But apart from a gung ho last 10 minutes we created very little real chances, barely strung together any passing moves or did anything exciting.

Chimbonda as usual played like a twat in our half but quite well in theirs.

We conceded our obligatory set piece goal (Chimbonda this time I think completely lost his man) and another piece of shocking defending cost us a game that while hardly deserving a good victory we probably didn't deserve to loose either.

Cerny 6 - Fuck all to do except pick the ball out. Haven't seen replays so don't know if he could have done better

Chimbonda 5 - It's a competition to see who can be the shittest at set pieces.

Gardner 6.5 - You can't help but feel sorry for him. Destiny marked this fella card a while ago

Kaboul 6 - Why was he moved to accomodate dawson. Still his defending leaves alot to be desired.

Dawson 6 - uhm. nothing new to say really

Lee 6.5 - ok

Lennon 6.5 - needs to involve himself more

Huddlestone 6 - was piss poor first half and kept trying the same ball over the top to no-one. small improvement second half.

Zokora 6.5 - Did ok

Malbranque 7 - I thought he was our livliest player. Couldn't believe Jol took him off.

Berbatov 8 - worked hard and played well.

Defoe 6.5 - did ok


fittingly Jol's substitutions were as usual pretty banal. He took our most creative (on the night) player off and put keane on who did nish. And what tainio for zokora achieved I'm not sure.


A sad farewell really.

 

[Bill_Oddie]

Agree on the subs. I'd probably have knocked a point off everyone's score. Except possibly Defoe. 6.5 is fair enough for him.

 

[michaelden]

Malb never stuck on the left and ruined the whole teams shape. I'd give him a 5

 

[night-watchman]

spot on ratings overall except I would maybe move lennon up to a 7 cause I though he actually had a pretty good game.

The thing people are forgetting is although we lost we blatantly deserved to win, or at least draw the match....... which has pretty much been the story of our season so far (we deserved to win/draw except drew/lost). Although our defense has been an absolute shambles I do feel that we have been genuinly unlucky and we have not had any of the breaks this season. Im sure that things will even themselves out this season but so many bad things happened at once for Jol and spurs that I think it got to the stage where we had to sack Jol just for a change. Am I the only one who doesnt have any bitterness towards levy? Although he made a mistake (and a big one) with the whole Ramos thing a couple of months ago I do geniunlly feel he has the best interests of the club at heart, and any decisions hes made has been for the benefit of the club.

 

[Dannyspur]

Was I at the wrong match? or do I just expect too much? I would give the whole lot of them 5.

 

[phil]

I'm with you Dannispur - we were dire. My ratings were:

Cerny 5

Nothing to do, not sure if he could have done better with the first.
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Chimbonda 2

Simple awful. If it wasn't for the cross for the goal he would have got a 1.
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Kaboul 5

He worries me.
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Gardner 5

Fine, but not on long enough to get a higher rating. Did you notice the way he was organising the defence?
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Lee 5

One of his poorer games
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Lennon 6.5 MoM

The one bright spot in the performance. Thought he looked like the old Lennon.
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Huddlestone 1

Difficult for anyone to be worse that Chimbonda but Huddlestone achieved it. Not actually sure that he deserves a 1.
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Zokora 4

Typical headless chicken impression. HE WAS CAPTAIN? BMJ was taking the piss.
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Malbranque 5.5

At least he tries which is more than can be said for a number of his team-mates.
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Defoe 6

Played pretty well. He even passed - once.
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Berbatov 6

O.k. but still not the real Berbatov.
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Dawson 5