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Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:43 pm**

Yeh betta be St...

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:52 pm**

Johnny Boy wrote:There is no flair or creativity in our central midfield with Stevie not available.

Adam can be really creative but only when he's got time and space. When he's pressed and put under pressure he struggles. This will increasingly be a problem, especially away from home which is a worry as our next away game is the Derby and he'll be swamped all over by the bitter's midfield.

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:35 pm**

HOMER wrote:not posted for a few years, too anoyed with the ownership issues - would have been banned from the forum !

anyway about the game - cant blame carroll and suarez, strikers cant do anything without the ball. adebayor would not have done anything if he was playing up front for us yesterday.

the problem lies in midfield modric is absolute class, parker is one of the best holding midfielders in the prem, bale is lightning fast and kranjcar is technically very good - very balanced creative midfield.

compare it to ours yesterday (gerrard will make a big difference) but lucas never will be a defensive midfielder he was playing in an attacking role before he came to us and why benitez played him in front of the back four i'll never know - totall miss match yesterday, doesnt offer anything but free kicks.

adam - good when he has plenty of time on the ball but against parker he wasnt given a second and the top teams will not give him a second. decent squad player and good value for 7 mill tho.

downing - good signing although we tried to get ashley young first. again cant do anything without possession as lucas and adam gave the ball away far too easily.

henderson - worried about this signing I know he's young but we did pay 18 mill for him - is he a winger? we had better options on bench - bellamy and kuyt.

simple fact is that spurs have better midfield players than us and that is where games are won and lost. no amount of coaching or changing formations will make these players compete with modric, bale and parker. tough task to get 4th this year.

Welcome back Homer!!

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:28 pm**

On an unrelated but related note, Aquilani scored a beauty header on the weekend.

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:43 pm**

skatesy wrote:"On an unrelated but related note"

Got to love that quote

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:11 pm**

metalhead wrote:
Reg wrote:The side is good enough to win without SG.

surprisingly no, Henderson isn't good enough to start and Adam and Lucas are not a good pair in the middle, I feel we are weaker in midfield than before. Remember the time we had Alonso? and when Gerrard got sent off against Everton in the derby game we still managed to win 3-1 even when we had a man down? Alonso bossed the midfield that day, we need someone like that

Know what we need ? We need Alonso !
THAT'S what we need. A grown-up, an adult. Not kids.

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2011 11:04 pm**

That would be the dream. But that's all it will be a dream.

I'm still in shock over the result on Sunday

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