The Pre-Season Friendly Thread 2008

Pretty disappointing display from City. God help them if they draw Queen Of The South tomorrow...
 
Cob said:
Pretty disappointing display from City.
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I only caught the last 30 minutes or so, but I think it was easy to see City weren't taking the game that seriously tonight, playing a team of butchers, bakers, a few members from the drug squad etc...

It was a run out... but you'd still expect to see something good from them.

It was more of a friendly than anything else really.

God help them if they draw Queen Of The South tomorrow...
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haha! That would kick the season off to a belter if City drop out to them :p
 
Celtic v Spurs kicking off in a min.

Team: Gomes, Zokora, Dawson, Woodgate, Assou-Ekotto, Lennon, Huddlestone, Jenas, Modric, Berbatov, Bent

Subs: Gunter, Bale, Bentley, Gilberto, Janssin, O'Hara, King
 
B1gbeard said:
Agree about Eboue, I'm a fan. I can see where some dislike him, even hate him for his antics sometimes, but he put in some good performances last season just not consistently.
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I am just hoping that he doesnt keep walcott off the right side of midfield.

I hope you are right about DM but he doesnt belong on RM. And seriously needs to work on his attitude, especially when he is yellow carded already. I can remember cringing every time he went for a ball
 
CliffyG said:
He was next to useless on the right of midfield most of the game last season. I rate him as a right back but Sagna blows him out of the water. DM i'm not so sure about, i'd certainly rather he was there than RM. Just wish he wasn't such a tool.
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He's actually quite quite brilliant on the right but vastly underrated and had no consistant runs in the team. Early on when he was playing more he actually got so close to scoring a dozen or so times. He hit the bar/post 4/5 times early in the season, he crosses quite well(most of the time) got quite a few assists and was involved in a lot of VERY good build up play. Something that happens with both Sagna and Eboue in the team is absolutely world class overlapping play down the wing, something completely non-existant with Hleb playing there. By Eboue and Sagna constantly playing each other into the overlap both looked brilliant and Eboue made Sagna much better in attack than hleb did. You shoudl also remember back, it was Eboue in several games that created some brilliant chances, if you remember he played a couple brilliant, world class one-two's with bendtner, did a fantastic backhell to set Bendtner up for a goal.

He is truly very very good, only marred by over reacting to tackles way to often and going down very easily. If Wenger just gave him a clip round the ear and told him to stop it and given a run in the team he really would become very very good there.

ANother thing to remember is the early Man U game, Sagna + Eboue, Giggs(on form that part of the season), and Evra (also great form) were completely and utterly shut out the entire game while Eboue was on, Ronaldo and giggs switched, still not an iota of luck. Eboue was so good that Man U had very little quality attacking, however the second Eboue went off, Giggs and Evra, and Ronaldo ran riot down our right flank and created their goal down the flank and repeatedly attacked well. Eboue and Sagna is possibly the strongest defensively and maybe offensively partnership in the world.

If only he was less of a ****. :p

Happy to see him in central as he's pacey, can intercept, very strong, creative, and read the game well. I'd be happy to see him out right too but get the feeling with Eduardo, RVP, Theo, Nasri, Wiltshire, Ramsey, Traore, Lansbury and Vela all able to play on the wings, that he might not be needed there. If things had gone differently, and some of his shots literally inches different he could have scored 5 goals in his first 5 games on the right wing, added to assists and had a sustained run. Want to see him dive less, though to be fair he's much better than a few years ago but his reputation sees him get a few more harsh tackles to get him to react, same with Rooney I guess, lol, and Lehman
 
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NokkonWud said:
Zokora is bloody rubbish.
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He hasn't done too badly at RB to be fair. He's awful when it comes to pushing forward though.

Modric has impressed me so far and Lennon has showed improvement. Want to see more from Jenas and quicker decision making from Dawson.

Bent has been great but Berbatov seems to be hanging back a little too much. He clearly needs more games.
 
Err Eboue was completely pants coming forward for pretty much all the games he was in apart from pre-season last year. He doesn't score and doesn't assist and towards the end of the season he looked clueless and ended loads of move by picking the wrong pass / trying to skin people. He is a good RB though and if he does stay central then it will please me a lot more than him playing on the right.
 
davestar_delux said:
How do Celtic look? Pretty rubbish? :( Can't watch the game at the moment.
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Absolutely rubbish. They wanted to get everything to McGeady and Spurs completely kept him out the game. It was quite predictable really, but the Celtic players as a whole look far from ready for a season to start.
 
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