Walcott has pace and plenty of it but his end product leaves a lot to be desired for...
English League Football [19th - 23rd Feb 2010] **spoilers**
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Walcott has pace and plenty of it but his end product leaves a lot to be desired for...
Yeah it's rubbish at the minute but he's bang out of form and confidence. He's only played a few games in a year or so. When he hit form before his injury he was running at defenders and sticking good crosses in. A few of his crosses were into excellent areas yesterday too, but Arsenal never, ever attack crosses so they all look bad.
You do have a point there...just hope he can get some form for our title run in.
Wow the snow at Blackburn is mental lol....feel sorry for Coyle though...leaves Burnley to go to Bolton thinking that they were going to be his next big thing but turns out they might end up being relegated along with Burnley lol. Would be funny if Burnley survive the drop but Bolton dont
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Torres and Benayoun on the bench for us today:
----------Reina
Carra-Skrtel-Agger-Insua
Maxi-Lucas-Masch-Babel
---------Gerrard
----------Kuyt
Not sure if it's Babel or Kuyt up front.
Oh and Burnley are 1 up at Villa
You know having torres on the bench is going to be a poo decision. Seeing how this season has progressed this far city are going to ahead 10 mins before time, bring on torrres and his out again for weeks.
Not a bad line up thou i dont get How or why Maxi is being chosen to start like he has been last few weeks he hasnt shown anything to justify that imo, Would rather see Riera on the pitch. Not sure again why rafa has even brought Torres/Benayoun considiring rafa was saying no rush and neither are fit assuming its just an attempt to phsyc city out
Thou we need to win today hopefully we will,
Thou we need to win today hopefully we will,
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Ouch, shame Burnley have gotten so bad, started off as a nice to watch attacking team, still not terrible but, being ripped to shreds now. Downings 1st should have been stopped quite easily, 2nd was a huge deflection, up to 4-1 now, second team to concede over 50 goals now.
Jakeke, Walcotts NEVER run at defenders, he always slows down and prays they make a mistake, he's never been a good crosser and he didn't put in a few good crosses yesterday, one, maybe. He's never been good and he wasn't magically better before his injury, its one excuse after another. When he first got games, he hadn't played for ages, then it was the pressure of going to the world cup has made him timid, then its a shoulder or leg injury, than another injury, then another.
The biggest problem is he does not use his pace. With the ball he's slow, without the ball he very rarely uses his pace when anyone is also going for the ball because he's scared of contact and wimps out of most situations where he might have to fight. Occasionally he does get stuck in, but its VERY rare. When he does have the ball, 95% of the time he's lost control within his first 3 touches and given it away, if he comes up against a defender, he slows down and gets scared, rather than just blasting it wide and running after it. His very first touch yesterday he got the ball and ran directly into a defender losing the ball, thats what he does.
Jakeke, Walcotts NEVER run at defenders, he always slows down and prays they make a mistake, he's never been a good crosser and he didn't put in a few good crosses yesterday, one, maybe. He's never been good and he wasn't magically better before his injury, its one excuse after another. When he first got games, he hadn't played for ages, then it was the pressure of going to the world cup has made him timid, then its a shoulder or leg injury, than another injury, then another.
The biggest problem is he does not use his pace. With the ball he's slow, without the ball he very rarely uses his pace when anyone is also going for the ball because he's scared of contact and wimps out of most situations where he might have to fight. Occasionally he does get stuck in, but its VERY rare. When he does have the ball, 95% of the time he's lost control within his first 3 touches and given it away, if he comes up against a defender, he slows down and gets scared, rather than just blasting it wide and running after it. His very first touch yesterday he got the ball and ran directly into a defender losing the ball, thats what he does.
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Especially if every team in the world cup has Burnleys away squad
You know it doesn't count for much, when even Heskey scores.
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Johnson's a pretty nifety player (City).
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Kompany two footed tackle goes unpunished but Mascherano gets a yellow for a nothing challenge.
Edit: Lucas is having an absolute nightmare and Maxi has been anonymous. Aquilani for Lucas and drop Gerrard back and Riera/Yossi for Maxi in the second half.
Edit: Lucas is having an absolute nightmare and Maxi has been anonymous. Aquilani for Lucas and drop Gerrard back and Riera/Yossi for Maxi in the second half.
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Strange that someone not in the squad, is currently warming up
Didn't see the Kompany tackle, net died for a bit, but from what I can tell Masch didn't get a yellow for the tackle but for the half dozen he'd already done.