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Greenlizard0 Boxing Day Football Thread ** spoilers ** [26 - 27th December 2011]
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lol at versatile, kick it ahead and run after it, doing it in the middle of the pitch rather than the wing doesn't make him more versatile
He's decent for sure but the issue being, he helped rip apart Norwich, who sucked, though that was absolutely in part down to how good Spurs were, but he's been gash for the past month or so against better teams.
Either way, yup, Song should have gone, both his tackles were so utterly ridiculous, clearly revenge style tackles, absolutely reckless, kicked through the first guy high, stupid late, no where near the ball and took the player completely then he fouled again probably as bad a second later. I'm not entirely sure either were directly red card tackles but frankly the ref should have given him a yellow for each tackle, the fact they were a couple seconds apart doesn't change how bad they are.
In general, gash, Gervinho may have scored but what, almost 10 yards ahead of the defence he still couldn't just slot it past the keeper, he made an utter meal out of the goal and what should have been a simple finish, think Bale's second, turned into a song and dance and something that could easily have been saved. Its a Gervinho goal to a T, making something incredibly simple stupidly difficult, taking to long and making it harder for himself. The rest of his performance was abysmal. Benny dived a couple times, went down like a girl repeatedly and offered smeg all. Rosicky, hasn't looked good as a starter for several years now.
Honestly the way Arsenal have played in way more than half our games, even most of our wins, we're just VERY lucky the rest of the league is so pathetically weak at the moment.
Learn't that at Arsenal.
Almost, Man City have taken far more shots on target than any other side this season. Spurs 113 on target and 34 goals, but when you think of how many of those efforts have been Rafa's long rangers it's not surprising.
Still, despite this, we aren't the most wasteful of sides in the league, 3rd most accurate in fact...
And Adebayor is the striker flagged offside the most in the league.
lol at versatile, kick it ahead and run after it, doing it in the middle of the pitch rather than the wing doesn't make him more versatile
He's decent for sure but the issue being, he helped rip apart Norwich, who sucked, though that was absolutely in part down to how good Spurs were, but he's been gash for the past month or so against better teams.
Hmm I'm still sceptical about Bale criticism but as a Spurs fan that obviously comes with a certain amount of bias.
From what I see though, yes he does play to his strength a lot in that he knocks the ball on and runs on to using his immense pace, but any talented player would be a fool not to play to his strengths.
But tonight we also saw him being clever with his feet by dancing around a couple of players, we saw him doink the ball in over the keeper, we saw him maintain composure in a semi-restricted area with little time except for the one touch control one touch shot and we saw him whip a few balls in.
I agree his crosses aren't alwas spectacular, and a couple of shots he had from angles were hardly of the same calibre as we saw against Milan. But all those games together show we have a smart 22 year old who can only learn and get better.
Not to mention that your primary job as a winger is to beat your man and then either get your cross in or create chances for your team mates/yourself. Even with his knock it and run approach, he usually achieves his objective.
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http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11662_2705370,00.html
Man City 121
Spurs 113
Man Utd 112
Chelsea 105
Arsenal 105
Liverpool 97
Those figures don't include the last games but I know evryone had more shots on target than City who only had about 3 against WBA, so the gap is even closer. I wouldn't say City have had 'far more' shots than everyone else. City must have had a few pot shots over the past few weeks because Spurs were top of that table a couple of weeks ago.
Even so, considering our accuracy being among the best, we should have more goals than we have. Ok we've had a few good goals disallowed for no reason and how many times has the opposition 'keeper won MOM? Hopefully things will even out during the 2nd half of the season.
Even so, SSN have been discussing success rate when talking about Suarez's ban and Carroll being tripe. Liverpool have the worst shot to goal rate in the league 9%. Spurs weren't in the worst 10, unfortunately SSN didn't disclose the other end of this table.
I'm surprised its as high as 9%, feels like one in every 50 goes in.
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Wolves appeal to have the red card for Milijas overturned has failed. Personally didn't think it was a red card but there we go! 3 match ban