by bigmick » Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:08 pm
I must confess although we took our foot off the gas in the second half, I never ever felt we were in danger unless they got a flukey bounce from a set-piece. Over the ninety minutes we were much the better team and thoroughly deserved the win I thought.
Positives were definately Hyppia and Skyrtel who in particular was excellent after last weeks dodgy performance against Man Utd. I like the way he's prepared to go forward on the odd occasion, in modern football centre halves do that to great effect. Most pleasing was the fact that he didn't get caught in the headlights ballwatching once today. Definately an encouraging display.
Riise was as good as he's been all season at left back, while Gerrard was at his very best and head and shoulders the best player on the pitch. Lucas flitted in and out, while to be totally honest I thought Kuyt had a good game on the right as well. He ought to have scored with the header in the first half but it did take him a bit by surprise, but he was unlucky with the blocked shot and the deflected one which went just wide. Good effort from the fella and he deserves the plaudits. It was mentioned earlier in the week that "if only some of the other players had Kuyt's workrate" and that applied to babel today who was infuriating. He has talent but jeez he keeps it well hidden sometimes and has much to learn.
The only slight disappointment for me was Alonso, but in truth he wasn't that bad. Everton though were absolutely awful, and it seems hard to comprehend that we are as close as we are to them in the table. I would think that'll make fourth just about a certainty now, it's just a shame that we find ourselves fourteen points off the top spot with the distinct possibility that the gap maybe even wider come the end of the season. Were we to perish in the Champions League then the questions visa-vis any progress this season will be entirely legitimate.
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bigmick on Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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