Heskey is beyond pathetically bad, at least Crouch has the sense to run into the box now and then, I forget where I read it, here on footie 365 comments, but a Villa fan was complaining that for half the attacks he's just standing on the half way line wondering what to do, rather than breaking his neck to get on the end of a cross. He's a lazy no good no talent idiot. He's big therefore he's good? Seems to be most peoples reasoning, but Cole for instance, wins more headers, because he actually knows what to do, Heskey despite his size looks to fall over and get a freekick rather than do something with the ball.
I also though Crouch was pathetic last night and its a sad state of affairs when your entire game can be so pathetically bad, but pick up two tap ins from other people's work. He won few headers, held up the ball badly, simply control was beyond him, passing was terrible. He got two late runs into the box wrong, but got lucky. The Cole shot he should have run across the defender earlier so he could recieve the pass to shoot from, but he was behind two defenders for no real reason, Cole shot and the defender was slowing down, give him credit for going for it and getting the goal, but world class, hardly.
Gabby's build up play was actually very good first half, but with two useless midgets and a tall pratt he didn't have much to work with, another utterly pointless "test". So we know how a bunch of bad players play with each other, but how would Gabby do with the rest of the normal first team, we don't know because two players were "injured" again and unavailable, good commitment guys.
Would Gabby have worked perfecty instead of Heskey with the rest of the expected first team? we still don't know.
I thought he showed good movement, but got poor service and no one to work off, if you watch Villa its the interplay between Young/Gabby that makes goals. Playing both of them together in the team may have worked very well, but again who knows. Lennon and SWP were awful, defensively not bad except Johnson, most main chances for them he was easily passed around and out of position with there two best chances him caught up field, Ferdy moving over and Johnson plugging the whole badly, if that striker had a left foot we would have lost, but he always wanted a half hour to get on his right foot which cost him his chances.
Foster, fantastic save, more impressive than he's been for Utd. Bridge, not to bad, Barry was pretty damn good going fowards, not so good defensively, but then no one seems to notice he's been an attacking midfielder for 4 years. Lampard again working hard taking the defensive role which he's surprising decent at but wasting his offensive game and not surprisingly he's not world class as a DM.
England have so much quality I really don't know why we let SWP, Lennon, Crouch, Heskey get any games at all. WE should have for months been looking for a decent DM to play which can then also release Lampard to play further up the pitch, surely at least trying, Lescott, Richards, Bridge, Jagielka, anyone defensive, big and strong there is a start, those players because they have a bit more pace than obviously aren't starting in their normal positions, but all capable of getting forward but can sit in the hole and cover the defence. The mere hope hargreaves might be fit to play that role is a HUUUUGEEE gamble, and we don't have anyone else remotely close to being a great DM.
THe real world class players in the team would be Rooney, Cashley, Terry, Ferdy, Lampard, Defoe, dare I say it, Beckham aswell, I think he's lost a lot of his game but frankly, is so so far ahead of Theo/SWP/Lennon its a joke.
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