by username » Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:09 am
The team did not play well and marseille played well. Marseille closed down every single player on the pitch, and quite simply, our players did do anything about it. When the defence was closed down, the ball was either lobbed up front, hoping for the best, or played short. the lob quite simply doesnt work, so the only other chance was a short pass, meaning the midfield had to come back and pick it up. Leto couldnt do anything with it, Gerrard was closed down in his current poor form, while momo lost it on the first touch, with yossi just runing the ball into the marseille players. Which again leads to a short pass, meaning the strikers moved closer to pick it up, to far from goal to be an attacking theat. The only times the ball ever got into marseille's box was the rare time we used the wings, while the only chance of an attack was ruined when crouch picked the ball up and ran it all the way back to midfield due to the pressure provided by marseille, then passing to yossi, who ran it into the marseille players again (or to another player who could do nothing). The goal was caused by just that, the midfield coming to pick it up, and momo losing it on his first touch (although, it was an amazing strike for the goal).
But, in no way was it down to missing players or marseille playing good, it was us being poor. Our players should of been more than good enough to beat them 3-0 at least. If anyone says diffrent, look at how we played in the last 5 minutes, within those 5 minutes we had more chances than we had the rest of the game, including a shot that would of been a goal if not for a great bit of defending. It was that 5 minutes that we finaly tried to score, and in that 5 minutes, we almost did, if the team would of played like that the whole, we would be celebrating
"Fernando Towers won't triumph in the premiership.
And you can quote me on that. " - Sabre 2007
Sorry Sabre, but when i see stuff like this i have to quote it
