he was great at spurs, he can be great at Man U, their fans tend to forget the goals he's scored and the assists he made. No one was really complaining about him anymore when there was a goal every couple of games, an assist here and there, and they were winning.
he needs a willing runner infront though, he's a playmaker not a small fast guy to run in behind, he never has been that player and never looked like that player however thats how he's played.
ALl this talk of "team work", he's fine, lately teamwork means Tevez running around giving away freekicks. Fans seem to forget if your striker is running around 40 yards away from when he should be when your team get the ball back they've got no one to play it too.
Man U are suffering from Tevez's lack of , well, real ability and the less he gets picked the more "effort" he puts in, in terms of supposed team work, which makes him even more useless.
Its quite simple team work, a striker does his best work for his team, upfront, a striker, pretending to be a defensive midfielder ISN'T working for the team, he's just working, he doesn't win the ball that often, got a yellow card, was one bad tackle from being sent off and didn't have a decent chance on goal in 120 minutes.
Personally I wouldn't blame Berbatov for a SINGLE bad shot in a game he came on that was in a deadlock, with talentless turds like Wellbeck and Tevez around him, not a single talented runner to play off or play the ball in for. Again I would say Tevez's complete lack of threat over 120 minutes was far more disgraceful than a single split second by berbatov. that penalty could easily have gone in, it wasn't great, but still could easily have gone in if Howard dived the other way, then you'd have nothing to say about him at all. yet Tevez would still have been completely worthless for an entire 120minutes.
Utd do try to play the same football Spurs played with Berbatov there, passing, counter attacking, theres no difference except in the quality of the strikers around him, or more to say, the lack of strikers around him. Rooney for 3 years has been becoming more of a midfielder than a striker even finally going as far as recently to be played on the wing for both england and Man U. Tevez, you just rarely see Tevez actually run beyond the defence, and haven't for over a year.
Man U really need to let Tevez go, no way in hell he's worth as much as he'll cost. Get in a real striker who likes to play ahead of the game, run in behind and you'll see a world class Berbatov come to life. Or you know, tell one of your stupid strikers to play as a striker rather than run around following the ball. They've missed a RVN since he left and he's exactly who they need infront of a Berbatov.
Whats hilarious really is that Macheda is actually looking the part of that willing runner in behind. When he came on for that first goal against Villa no one had run inbehind the defence that game till basically the second he came on, suddenly the whole midfield and a whole range of passes to make and when the ball was inbehind the defence is backtracking and all over the place, as is normal. Tevez again that day had failed to run in behind a single time and was worthless all game. THe hilarious part, what they needed today was to take off the hapless welbeck and put Berbatov on with Macheda infront, those two could work very well, but Fergie took off Macheda rather than Welbeck or Tevez. That cost them the game.
Answer me this berb bashes and Tevez lovers, how is it Man U are getting worse the more Tevez and his fantastic workrate play, how many tackles does he really win with his constantly running around and how many fouls is he giving away, how many shots is he having a game or chances created for others? I've yet to see him offer a REAL threat this year as he's always chasing the game, he's always to deep and he's never making dangerous runs for the likes of scholes/giggs/berb/rooney/ronaldo to pick him out in the box.
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