Zenit highlights for those who didn't manage to stream the game the other night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTm9-qwflVo&list=UUsOKCDfSRPwRhnbCqBO8CQw
Roos looks great, picked that penalty right out of the corner
I realise I'm dangerously on-topic for a football forum, apologies to all.
Straying back on-topic...
posted on 24/7/14
I couldn't get the stream on any of my apple devices
I can't access youtube from work computers
I therefore blame Captain Chaos for both goals, and probably for missing an easy chance at the other end too.
posted on 24/7/14
There's a longer video on Ramsplayer if you have that, 666
posted on 24/7/14
I have no facility for that either; it's as if Richard Keogh ran our IT Dept
posted on 24/7/14
I'm liking the sound of the 'keeper though; he's done well and represents an authentic challenger for the jersey which I think is vital across the squad. A bit more competition across the backline and for Coldplay wouldn't go amiss.. I think expecting him alone to fire us to the Championship is a bit much particluarly when you consider how many yellows he picks up and how often he's kicked over too. We have nobody even close to being able to play that role and the other strikers are either in-the-hole men or bald and useless.
posted on 24/7/14
Aside from the penalty save he made another good save from open play, stretched right across the goal to reach it.
Ward should have bagged a goal about 6 minutes in after some good play down the left from who I can only assume was Fozzy (couldn't see, the video is fuzzy).
Bucko was to blame for the second goal, if he had been Keogh there would have outrage there.
I'm not Keogh's biggest fan, I think he is reckless and error-prone at time but by-and-large he has played well for us and after his confidence has taken a huge knock in the biggest game of his life so far, all the anti-Keogh opinions can't be helping, he's still a member of our best team in years and we should get behind him.
posted on 24/7/14
I think he should be stripped of the captaincy to focus on his own game, which is lacking somewhat. Yes, he made a huge error at Wembley but it was only the third in a phase of play that underlined the need for a root-and-branch investigation into the defence. Fozzy should have ignored Bucko and hoofed the ball out; his indecision didn't help. Bucko should have Row Z'd the ball; nobody can cross it from there, we're seconds from the end of the game and we needed to regroup at the back. From Bucko's being dispossessed of a ball he should have got rid of (indeed he shouldn't have had at all!) then the cross should have been left alone by Keogh as it was only going to Wisdom who was all alone ten yards behind him, or exactly where he's been coached to be in that situation. Instead Keogh mis-hit it and the rest is QPR history.
Granty and Wisdom did their jobs, the other 60% of the defence didn't and it cost us. Sure, we hadn't done the job at the other end either which is why Zamora's goal cost us £120m, but Keogh's touch shouldn't even have happened.
posted on 24/7/14
Yeah, but the focus is all on him because it was his mistake than actually gave Zamora possession, so stripping him of his captaincy would probably have the opposite effect on him, knocking his confidence even further.
Pretty sure he's more aware than anybody else of the deficiencies in his game since then, and although we may not have seen it in pre-season yet I'm confident the coaching team will be doing all they can to improve his game, if we've spotted it I'd be very surprised if they hadn't. Bucko and Fozzy aren't under the scrutiny that Keogh is.
posted on 24/7/14
All this Keogh bashing, your manager is thick, he can't beat ten men. Poor tactics lost you the final in the end. Seems wrong to me to shift the blame on one player, that Buxton looks a cart-horse and dived in against Hoilett.
Maybe McClaren isn't all he's cracked up to be. Took off Russell and it was water off Dunne's back the way Derby launched balls in the box for him to head away. Derby could have kept possession and then gone for another half an hour. You played as if you had to win it in 90.
But what am I complaining for? Great tactics from the Wally.
posted on 24/7/14
Another link to Zenit highlights
http://www.theguardian.com/football/championship
posted on 24/7/14
Sorry Rampant, Ref the first goal Keogh came storming out to make the tackle and missed. Mileys punt was not good either, but it all started with Keogh.
Your right on Bucko for the second.
I was impressed with the possession we had in midfield, we looked really good. One thing still worries me, apart from CB is our ability to cross a ball.
Not one player who got in a position to cross delivered a good ball. Our corners were as bad.