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Zidane wrote:Don't understand why people aren't genuinely happy with the performance, we did better than some are giving us credit for.

Sunderland were no great shakes, we struggled to break them down in the first half....second half very much "huff n' puff"....N'gog couldn't miss from that range (yes he could"!)...and a bad error by their goalkeeper gifted us our second.....If we approach the man u game anything like that preformance last night they will eat us alive!....this is course for concern.....dont get carried away by our win last night we have two very big tests coming up, which will make or break our season.

REDTILLDEAD wrote:Sunderland were no great shakes, we struggled to break them down in the first half....second half very much "huff n' puff"....N'gog couldn't miss from that range (yes he could"!)...and a bad error by their goalkeeper gifted us our second.....If we approach the man u game anything like that preformance last night they will eat us alive!....this is course for concern.....dont get carried away by our win last night we have two very big tests coming up, which will make or break our season.

We will win both of them games and you can quote me on that 

Ciggy wrote:We will win both of them games and you can quote me on that

There ya go Lynds You might well be right. We'll definately beat Madrid, and after for the first time in my natural getting consecutive scores correct which I actually predicted (at least I don't think I had a go at the Boro game, mind you maybe I did I've been posting while hitting the whisky recently) I'm gonna go for the score.

It'll be 1-0 again. If he plays, Torres will score it, if not, Gerrard will.

The Man U game is harder to call, but here goes. I think it'll be 1-1, and I'm predicting an unbeleiveably dodgy penalty, or something well out of order in their favour. They very often get a helping hand against us, and I think they'll get it this time too.

stmichael wrote:It won't be pretty but I'll go for a 2-0 win.

Thoroughly professional performance without being spectacular. Sunderland (the Jones chance apart) were awful and once we went infront there was only going to be one winner. In the end we could have had four or five.

Special mentions go to Benayoun who was lively and inventive again and David Ngog upfront. I thought he played well although it doesn't mean people can't debate whether or not he's going to good enough long term or even short term. Gerrard also gave a very good disciplined performance in central midfield and started to burst forward more in the second half.

Good to have a week off now to prepare for the Madrid game.

stmichael wrote:

stmichael wrote:It won't be pretty but I'll go for a 2-0 win.

Thoroughly professional performance without being spectacular. Sunderland (the Jones chance apart) were awful and once we went infront there was only going to be one winner. In the end we could have had four or five.

Special mentions go to Benayoun who was lively and inventive again and David Ngog upfront. I thought he played well although it doesn't mean people can't debate whether or not he's going to good enough long term or even short term. Gerrard also gave a very good disciplined performance in central midfield and started to burst forward more in the second half.

Good to have a week off now to prepare for the Madrid game.

bunglemark2 wrote:Uncharacteristically, Benayoun had a good game, and as I'm perhaps one of his fiercest critics, I'll take my hat off to him for last night's performance.

Ola Mr Benitez wrote:I was made up we won last night because at half time I couldnt see us scoring.  We seem to have become tha masters of passing sideways and backwards.  Loads of possesion but no drive.

We are desperatly short of a player who can run at a defence and make it panic (and then make mistakes).  Occasionaly Reira does it, and Yossi sometimes, but it doesnt happen enough.

Is it the players dont want to do it, or are they being told not to.

Ola Mr Benitez wrote:We are desperatly short of a player who can run at a defence and make it panic (and then make mistakes).  Occasionaly Reira does it, and Yossi sometimes, but it doesnt happen enough.

Lee J wrote:yup we need a new john barnes.

And a new Peter Beardsley would be nice too 

s@int wrote:

Ola Mr Benitez wrote:I was made up we won last night because at half time I couldnt see us scoring.  We seem to have become tha masters of passing sideways and backwards.  Loads of possesion but no drive.

We are desperatly short of a player who can run at a defence and make it panic (and then make mistakes).  Occasionaly Reira does it, and Yossi sometimes, but it doesnt happen enough.

Is it the players dont want to do it, or are they being told not to.

I agree mate, I don't think we actually have the type of players that can do this. Creatively we are certainly well short of what I would wish for. When Torres and Gerrard are at the top of their games we can "get away" with it, but if we are ever to really sustain our challenge for the title I would have a top class creative player at the very top of my wanted list.

stmichael wrote:

s@int wrote:

Ola Mr Benitez wrote:I was made up we won last night because at half time I couldnt see us scoring.  We seem to have become tha masters of passing sideways and backwards.  Loads of possesion but no drive.

We are desperatly short of a player who can run at a defence and make it panic (and then make mistakes).  Occasionaly Reira does it, and Yossi sometimes, but it doesnt happen enough.

Is it the players dont want to do it, or are they being told not to.

I agree mate, I don't think we actually have the type of players that can do this. Creatively we are certainly well short of what I would wish for. When Torres and Gerrard are at the top of their games we can "get away" with it, but if we are ever to really sustain our challenge for the title I would have a top class creative player at the very top of my wanted list.

Arshavin would have been absolutely ideal

I agree mate , he would have been, although my personal preference would be Diego, he scores a lot of goals and creates just as many. (I have gone off Aguero now as he seems to be playing further forward )

At the price Arsenal are supposed to have got him for Arshavin would have been ideal though.

REDTILLDEAD wrote:

Zidane wrote:Don't understand why people aren't genuinely happy with the performance, we did better than some are giving us credit for.

Sunderland were no great shakes, we struggled to break them down in the first half....second half very much "huff n' puff"....N'gog couldn't miss from that range (yes he could"!)...and a bad error by their goalkeeper gifted us our second.....If we approach the man u game anything like that preformance last night they will eat us alive!....this is course for concern.....dont get carried away by our win last night we have two very big tests coming up, which will make or break our season.

We need a huge improvement, if we are going to get some sort of good result against M.Utd, at present we are playing lousy, in fact since the turn of the new year, we are starting to see kind of Liverpool team performance of the last three seasons, less constructive, non productive, lack imagination and creativity to break down below average opponents, bad shooting on goal all round, and cannot score enough goals, a very duel display.