imouthep wrote:On top of his game Crouch was a regular for england and Liverpool and what has damaged crouch the most was the season coming to an end and the new season beginning. He hasnt been given the chance to play and perform that kuyt has and so if he plays the odd game and fails to score it (for some unknown reason) adds ammunition to the people who dont rate the guy as a reason to get rid.
My one criticism of Peter Crouch actually has nothing to with the man.It's simply the rest of the team when crouch plays seem to boom long ball after long ball in his direction and we hope for some flick or something.It's ugly,ugly football and I detest it. We have such brilliant passers of the ball and as soon as crouchy comes on it's aerial mode.He is very handy with his feet is crouch and I would like to see more of an arsenal approach with adebayor.Carpet football all the way.I'm not saying that this tactic is not useful to mean this league we are going to need to win ugly but I would like to see us mix it up more when crouchy comes on. Give him a few balls on his feet and see what happens.
With Kuyt I think he has found his position he aint prolific yet but out wide seems to suit him and he's improving.I just can't see him as a long term solution though (would love to be wrong and he starts banging them) I just don't think he has a) the flair b)the pace c)the goal scoring in him. I have no doubt that he loves the club but so do I,give me number 25 and I would run like bitch for the club.But I am not world class and neither is Dirk imo. I'm nnot slating him I'm just trying to give my hinest opinion. So I would look to keep him as an option on the bench but no more i feel.
The team plays better without having the target man, not that I think Crouch fills the role that well anyhow. None of the top sides employ such a one dimensional attacker, he is poor in the air and while he hits some great strikes he misses as many.
As for Kharhaz's comments, Crouch on top of his game? Don't make me laugh. In 2006/7 he managed 18 goals in 49 appearances which is nearly half his overall goals. He hit a couple of decent scoring spells that season, but the stats don't lie. Maybe Kuyt has got a fair crack of the whip by comparison, but then Liverpool have won 58% of their games that Kuyt has played and only 52% with Crouch. Liverpool have also lost 19% with Crouch in the side compared to only 13% with Kuyt, goals or no goals the team seems to be doing better with Kuyt so stick with it.
As for England, he was never a regular for England, he merely filled in for absentees Owen and/or Rooney. He filled his boots with goals against sometimes less than mediocre opposition and fair play to him, however he looks out of his depth against top sides and his so far impressive international record will eventually look more like his Liverpool record. That's maybe a sad indictment of international football, you play maybe two decent teams all qualifying and maybe two or three in the finals. He scores plenty against teams in Europe, not the top clubs mind
by 112-1077774096 » Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:03 am