by adamnbarrett » Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:36 pm
Well 3 points but not exactly comfortable. Today I wasn't comfortable with Pepe in goal. He dealt with Zamora's cross terribly. You could tell even the defenders weren't comfortable when sami headed away a ball Pepe called for him to leave. But I'm sure Pepe can overcome this blip, he is a good keeper.
Garcia was not in the game today and of course when he was in he gave the ball away. Crouch was playing badly up until he scored, he took his goal very well and he is gaining more and more confidence. Sami's age looks to be showing, he is looking slow but still solid. Agger is getting better and better by the game and deserved his wonderful goal (I didn't think it had gone in for a few moments). Bellamy worked really hard and IMO his goal was onside from where I was sitting. Alonso and Gerrard were still not themselves, they are not imposing themselves enough on the game.
Aurelio looked good and was unlucky not to score with his free-kick which cracked off the woodwork.
From what I saw of Kuyt when he came on I was really pleased with. He has a huge jump on him when going up for headers and set up bellamy's disallowed goal. He had a few shots and looked confident. He made good runs and showed he has got a bit of pace on him aswell. He deserved a goal.
I thought the referee had a bad game, not booking konchesky for hacking down pennant in the first half because he played advantage was awful. Then he gave a yellow to one of our players for a nothing challenge. We should have had a penalty in the second half, the west ham defender basically grabbed bellamy round the neck and hyypia got his shirt nearly took off him.
We still need to improve but you cannot grumble with 3 points.