Greenlizard0 Weekend (mid-week) Football Thread ** spoilers ** [29 - 30th January 2013]
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Maybe it's because I only saw it on MOTD, but it looked to me like De Gea did well for the rest of the game? That Southampton goal was a bit of a freak really, I don't think many keepers would have coped with it well. It would have been a backpass if he'd handled it right? Rodriguez actually kept his cool and finished well I thought.
That's a very good point.
De gea couldn't go straight down to it as it would have been considered a backpass, and he couldn't go in with his feet as it would have been almost certainly a penalty + red card unless he got it absolutely perfectly.
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Thats because 99/100 times its NOT A BACKPASS and keepers going in with hands while players go in with their feet, so you have keepers diving to the floor and getting a kicking then getting a freekick, here for De Gea to go in hard and claim it, it would have been with his feet and studs up, meaning both, harder to get the ball, and if he misses, he'll likely stud the player making it a penalty and red card. If he did that and it wasn't a backpass it would have been weak as hell, but when you can't use your hands, he had very few options. The fault lies entirely with the idiots who put him in that position with some woeful football.
Sagna has been doing this since the end of his first season, he is a truly abysmal defender. Jenkinson, yet more talk of a surprise loan move. I've said that under Wenger there seems to be some kinda uber control freak, "agree with me or you're out" thing going on. If Jenkinson goes on loan, with Gibbs injured, Santos just utter turd, Sagna utter turd... it would seem Jenkinson is one of those guys Wenger just won't deal with unless everyone else is injured(Chamakh/Arshavin/etc).
As yesterday, I'll point out again that we were 10th before playing what were probably the 4 worst form teams in the league and winning all four games, since then its 1 win in 5, our record against the top half has been woeful so far, and we've got a top half heavy run to the end of the season. WE jumped up the table due to having a very soft 4 games in a row, we're more likely to slip down the table than go up it.
Still at 3 wins against top half, 10 man Spurs, 2 games with new manager Liverpool, and now turd West Brom.
Mertesacker was SO bad for the second goal, the reactions and speed of a turnip, Henderson, just crap, went past him like he wasn't there. Mert has been terrible for loads of our goals, painfully slow reactions, horrendous at set piece defending, he's entirely useless, when its Kos/Verm its 95% of the time a fullback screwing us for the goals we concede, when its Mert in there, he's usually as at fault as the fullbacks. If you're going to be as slow as Mertesacker you need to have the best reading of the game of anyone else, and he doesn't, he's slow, and slower to react, a terrible combination.
We need 2 fullbacks, at least(2 left, 1 right), a CB as Mert is useless, Miquel hasn't shown much of anything in terms of being good enough in the future, Djourou/Squillaci....lol.
DM's the least important, but I wouldn't say no, Arteta/Wilshire in there then most of the goals come from fullback mistakes, Diaby/Ramsey in there instead, both make a hell of a lot of defensive mistakes. I would say maybe a back up DM, but then I think Coquelin is good enough he seems to be another player Wenger is really unwilling to give a proper chance to.
Haha!
I will stand by that right up in till he wins it for Reading against us...(note I haven't seen any of this evenings football till motd)
For what its worth, the two goals Le Fondre scored last night were class, as was the second against Newcastle. The first assist from Akpan was rather good too, but god knows what Chelsea's defenders were doing leaving him free on both goals.