by bigmick » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:21 pm
I wonder if Babels goal against Lyons caused anybody to revisit their assessment of his abilties, or whether it will just get accepted/dismissed as a flash in the pan?
It firstly has to be said that it was an absolutely fantastic goal, but does it prove anything? Does the scoring of it in the manner it came prove Babel really has something, or was it just luck? He had to gather it, run to his right at pace, get his foot around it and get tremendous power and accuracy into the shot, so could he do it again and what does it teach us about him?
For my part the goal shocked me to be honest, simply because I didn't think he was capable of such things. He scored a similarish goal against Chelsea a year or two back, but even that wasn't with the same purity of contact and brute power of this one. We knew he had pace to burn, we now know he can give it a good crack with his right foot and he can hit it on the run. Unfortunately we also know he lacks awareness and his first touch is iffy, but in all honesty is there anybody who thinks he doesn't offer potentially more threat to the opposition that either Voronin or N'gog? Put simply, who would you prefer to play against? I know who I'd be picking and Babel would be at the bottom of my list of favoured opponents out of those three.
If it is to be true that Torres must now sit games out, surely now is the time to give him a go, Babel time if you like. "Schtop" I hear you cry, but I ask you what is the alternative? My guess is that if Voronin and N'Gog play 500 games for Liverpool (and neither will obviously) they'll never score a goal like the one babel scored the other night. Options are thin on the ground for us, and he surely represents the best one for us if Torres is out.
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bigmick on Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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