- May 19, 2008
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in my opinion if these two get dropped performances will improve.
zokora is atrocious. his passing is woeful. its always backwards or sideways at best(if even to one of our players). his defending is very poor,his marking is poor ,tackling is poor and ive noticed his is one of the first heads to drop when we go behind.i acknowledge he is a defensive midfielder but for him not to score even one goal in two and a half years is indicative of his talent and capabilities.i will admit he is a physical specimen who is quite fast and very strong but thats about it to me.
jenas is a tough one(nearly as divided as the abortion issue).as pointed out by many on numerous message boards,jenas has been picked by capello,jol,ramos,eriksson,mclaren etc etc and the argument is that surely he must be doing something right .but in my opinion he doesnt cut it. never seems to play a killer ball,doesnt score enough imo ,never puts in a crunching tackle,is definitely not a leader,.he is just a tidier zokora for me.
i think they have had ample games together to show that
A they are not good individually
B they are not good together
i think for all his perceived frailties tom huddlestone has a lot of good qualities and is definitely one of our best footballers with ball at feet.his passing and shooting is exemplary.
modric is clearly class as shown in the euros etc and bentley is much better then he is showing now.
lennon has also showed some fight this year and i reckon has been one of our better players thus far.
my team would be
gomes
hutton woodgate corluka bale
lennon bentley huddlestone modric
pavlyuchencko giovani
im sure people will tear my formation asunder but i am a believer that attacking football is best and that fortune favours the bold and that our better footballers should prevail over our less skilled ones.:shrug:
id give huddlestone the armband for what its worth. doing a sterling job for under 21's.he is a big lad ,imposing figure,english.
the talk of him possibly being sold while the likes of zokora are undroppable is disgusting
zokora is atrocious. his passing is woeful. its always backwards or sideways at best(if even to one of our players). his defending is very poor,his marking is poor ,tackling is poor and ive noticed his is one of the first heads to drop when we go behind.i acknowledge he is a defensive midfielder but for him not to score even one goal in two and a half years is indicative of his talent and capabilities.i will admit he is a physical specimen who is quite fast and very strong but thats about it to me.
jenas is a tough one(nearly as divided as the abortion issue).as pointed out by many on numerous message boards,jenas has been picked by capello,jol,ramos,eriksson,mclaren etc etc and the argument is that surely he must be doing something right .but in my opinion he doesnt cut it. never seems to play a killer ball,doesnt score enough imo ,never puts in a crunching tackle,is definitely not a leader,.he is just a tidier zokora for me.
i think they have had ample games together to show that
A they are not good individually
B they are not good together
i think for all his perceived frailties tom huddlestone has a lot of good qualities and is definitely one of our best footballers with ball at feet.his passing and shooting is exemplary.
modric is clearly class as shown in the euros etc and bentley is much better then he is showing now.
lennon has also showed some fight this year and i reckon has been one of our better players thus far.
my team would be
gomes
hutton woodgate corluka bale
lennon bentley huddlestone modric
pavlyuchencko giovani
im sure people will tear my formation asunder but i am a believer that attacking football is best and that fortune favours the bold and that our better footballers should prevail over our less skilled ones.:shrug:
id give huddlestone the armband for what its worth. doing a sterling job for under 21's.he is a big lad ,imposing figure,english.
the talk of him possibly being sold while the likes of zokora are undroppable is disgusting