Posted:
Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:44 am
by rocky29
no creativity whatsoever. Aquilani would of ripped west brom to shreds if he was still here.
Posted:
Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:26 am
by Owzat
Disappointing result, it is a win but considering we averaged 3-0 in previous Premiership fixtures against WBA and Chelsea thumped them, 1-0 goes down as rather limp. While many will try and make as much as possible out of Woy having no money, the owners blah blah blah, we should still have enough quality in Reina, Carra, Agger, Skrtel, Johnson, Kuyt, Jovanovic and Torres to name a few, to stuff the newly promoted yo-yos. I see Kuyt is already being scapegoated, despite setting up the only goal and being a key component in the build up to the penalty shout for handball. I guess it's easy to conveniently overlook that kind of contribution because he isn't doing 0-60 in 4.3 seconds on the wing and pinging in these crosses that only Torres only ever gets on the end of anyway. Funny how Kuyt managed to cross chip come pull back without racing down the wing, you don't need to be quick and beat the man to be the other side of him - I'll leave the clueless to work that one out, or ask the audience or phone a friend
Just for fun and purely interest rather than trying to indicate anything, here's a comparison of Rafa's first seven games in charge with Woy's
Rafa P7 W4 D1 L2 F10 A4 (Won 57.14%)
Woy P7 W5 D1 L1 F9 A4 (Won 71.43%)
I'm sure some political movers will try and make out Rafa was left better resources than Woy or vice versa, or implicate money and the owners or something to make one manager out to be better than the other etc etc etc At the end of the day we still have quality players enough to be in the top four. Interestingly after three Premiership games both managers had played three and won one, drawn one and lost one. Next game up Rafa beat West Brom 3-0 at home then lost to Man Utd away so there are so many parallels - played a North London club first up, played Man City second game and and Man Utd fifth up with West Brom at home between the second and fifth games. Rafa's first group game in Europe was at home, won 2-0 as both he and Woy did in their very first games in charge (away) in Europe.
Posted:
Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:37 am
by OneHotRed
Sorry im not sure how we missed a player who never really played for us, however we really did miss Messi and Alonso today, they would have ripped them open
Posted:
Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:57 am
by Bermenstein
This is a game we would have drawn last season.
We've turned 1 point into 3 imo.
Sometimes you have to win ugly.
The pretty shit will come with time.