heimdall wrote:Tell me if Carroll is playing so well and is so wonderful for us where are the goals, where are the assist? What criteria are you measuring his worth by? To suggest he has played the best in our team since Xmas is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard and I suspect you are either on a wind-up or know sod all about football.
Crouch is twice the footballer Carroll will ever be and to be honest I don't rate Crouch that highly!
those assist stats are useless really because you are relying on another player putting the ball away for them to count, look at the ball carroll put into suarez against stoke, it was a great chance but suarez couldnt take it down on his chest and ended up handling it, that should have been a goal, it was a similar story in the derby, he flicked a header on that suarez ran onto but he couldnt put away and in the second half carroll played a clever ball that put suarez clean through but he tried an ambitious shot with the outside of his foot and the chance was wasted, even in the game against united in the cup, about a minute after he set kuyt up to score the winner carroll had a header that hit the bar and dropped to kuyt but somehow he missed when it was easier to score.
carroll has been playing well since the bolton game where he set bellamy up for the goal, he then scored against wolves, scored against oldham even though he was only on the pitch 5 minutes, he was MoM against united in the cup having a role to play in both goals, he was then MoM against brighton scoring one and setting one up for suarez and could have easily had a couple of assists in the derby and one against stoke.
our worst performances since christmas tend to be the games he didnt start like united away and sunderland away.
