Phew, you have a lot to get off your chest there, I bet that feels better OP.
To me Hendo Adam and Spearing all played well and bossed the arsenal midfield, Spearing was especially good. Shelvey is one for the future and he will come in when needed and eventually cement a place in the team. He's no better than the others yet.
Suso is a talent, but not ready this season, he's a bit lightweight and needs a few more months of development IMO he's also an AM so not an answer to our goal scoring woes. Morgan has been through a wretched run of form and dropped back to playing for the Academy so he's not ready to be tested yet either.
Sterling is not far away from a shot at the first team and he, warmed up with the subs before the Arsenal game to give him a flavour of first team envolvment, I hope we see him this season, but not too much should be expected from him initially.
Maxi is probably on his way out of the club at the end of the season, and Kenny sees him as a back up option i'm sure.
Carra is the one player I'm not sure Kenny made the right call on we have Coates who would have done a good job and maybe Kenny is being a bit too cautious.
As for Stevie well he's just not been fit this season and I'm not sure he will be back to anywhere as near as good as he was. We are well covered in the midfield department at the moment with young players coming through.
What was Kenny thinking leaving it to the 89th minute to bring on Bellamy? If that had been Roy we would have been ripping him apart today.
gerrard is a strange one. when he came back from injury he was class. but since he's been pretty awful to be honest. he's stopped being a box-box player now. he doesn't get in the box enough and doesn't really have the legs to track players runs. i think gerrard needs to be playing behind the striker again not in a two man midfield. thats is where he can link up with suarez and create because his eye for a pass will never leave him.
agree Philo... Gerrard shouldnt be playing in a midfield two, thats why we are not seeing the best of him. We miss Lucas to free him up.
im sorry but the team was actually playing very well for the whole game. why bring on bellamy? for who? kuyt was playing well and so was downing!
we all know taking of suarez would be silly because he can produce a moment on quality at any instant.
on paper yes. Bellamy for Kuyt. But in the heat of the moment it just wasnt logical, Kuyt was actually playing well and taking him off could have disrupted the dynamic way we were playing.
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>>im sorry but the team was actually playing very well for the whole game. why bring on.....
agreed
OP you are being a self righteous know it all, and from your views you didn't even watch the match.
Like it has already been mentioned the whole team was playing well and weren't struggling for creativity. Something that you didn't acknowledge in your article.
You say 89th minute like it was 1 min left, we all know there wasn't in fact there was 8 mins extra.
That was enough time for Arsenal to score so by the same token would have been enough time for us to score one too.
I know it's pretty galling to lose as we did but the performance was up there and the team shape was good.
Just one of those things we've seen a lot of. Not able to put the game to bed.
We need to sort our finishing out. If that happens, everything will be rosy.
But thats not going to happen
LFC - Who said anything about Bellamy for Kuyt? I think Kuyt played great and think he links with Suarez better than anybody. I would have brought Bellamy on for Hendo who never looked like he would help us get the winner.
Redinthehead - I did indeed watch the match and am not stupid enough to give my opinions on something I haven't seen. I do agree that we played well but hasn't that been our story all season at home? We outplay the opposition for most of the 90 minutes but end up only sharing the poiints. I don't think you can argue with that because it is a fact. And, just for your information, I watched the match on ESPN2 with Ian Darke and Steve McMannaman commentating and you might like to know that Macca couldn't understand why Bellers didn't start up front with Suarez or wasn't brought on after an hour. But then again, maybe Macca is also a "self righteous know it all' .
All I know is when Bellamy came on we conceded.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it? Downing was a great outlet for us.
Like I said we were playing well, if the finishing was more clinical we wouldn't even be bothering with this talk of Bellamy.
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posted on 4/3/12
Phew, you have a lot to get off your chest there, I bet that feels better OP.
To me Hendo Adam and Spearing all played well and bossed the arsenal midfield, Spearing was especially good. Shelvey is one for the future and he will come in when needed and eventually cement a place in the team. He's no better than the others yet.
Suso is a talent, but not ready this season, he's a bit lightweight and needs a few more months of development IMO he's also an AM so not an answer to our goal scoring woes. Morgan has been through a wretched run of form and dropped back to playing for the Academy so he's not ready to be tested yet either.
Sterling is not far away from a shot at the first team and he, warmed up with the subs before the Arsenal game to give him a flavour of first team envolvment, I hope we see him this season, but not too much should be expected from him initially.
Maxi is probably on his way out of the club at the end of the season, and Kenny sees him as a back up option i'm sure.
Carra is the one player I'm not sure Kenny made the right call on we have Coates who would have done a good job and maybe Kenny is being a bit too cautious.
As for Stevie well he's just not been fit this season and I'm not sure he will be back to anywhere as near as good as he was. We are well covered in the midfield department at the moment with young players coming through.
posted on 4/3/12
What was Kenny thinking leaving it to the 89th minute to bring on Bellamy? If that had been Roy we would have been ripping him apart today.
posted on 4/3/12
gerrard is a strange one. when he came back from injury he was class. but since he's been pretty awful to be honest. he's stopped being a box-box player now. he doesn't get in the box enough and doesn't really have the legs to track players runs. i think gerrard needs to be playing behind the striker again not in a two man midfield. thats is where he can link up with suarez and create because his eye for a pass will never leave him.
posted on 4/3/12
agree Philo... Gerrard shouldnt be playing in a midfield two, thats why we are not seeing the best of him. We miss Lucas to free him up.
posted on 4/3/12
im sorry but the team was actually playing very well for the whole game. why bring on bellamy? for who? kuyt was playing well and so was downing!
we all know taking of suarez would be silly because he can produce a moment on quality at any instant.
on paper yes. Bellamy for Kuyt. But in the heat of the moment it just wasnt logical, Kuyt was actually playing well and taking him off could have disrupted the dynamic way we were playing.
posted on 4/3/12
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posted on 4/3/12
>>im sorry but the team was actually playing very well for the whole game. why bring on.....
agreed
posted on 4/3/12
OP you are being a self righteous know it all, and from your views you didn't even watch the match.
Like it has already been mentioned the whole team was playing well and weren't struggling for creativity. Something that you didn't acknowledge in your article.
You say 89th minute like it was 1 min left, we all know there wasn't in fact there was 8 mins extra.
That was enough time for Arsenal to score so by the same token would have been enough time for us to score one too.
I know it's pretty galling to lose as we did but the performance was up there and the team shape was good.
Just one of those things we've seen a lot of. Not able to put the game to bed.
posted on 4/3/12
We need to sort our finishing out. If that happens, everything will be rosy.
But thats not going to happen
posted on 4/3/12
LFC - Who said anything about Bellamy for Kuyt? I think Kuyt played great and think he links with Suarez better than anybody. I would have brought Bellamy on for Hendo who never looked like he would help us get the winner.
Redinthehead - I did indeed watch the match and am not stupid enough to give my opinions on something I haven't seen. I do agree that we played well but hasn't that been our story all season at home? We outplay the opposition for most of the 90 minutes but end up only sharing the poiints. I don't think you can argue with that because it is a fact. And, just for your information, I watched the match on ESPN2 with Ian Darke and Steve McMannaman commentating and you might like to know that Macca couldn't understand why Bellers didn't start up front with Suarez or wasn't brought on after an hour. But then again, maybe Macca is also a "self righteous know it all' .
posted on 4/3/12
All I know is when Bellamy came on we conceded.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it? Downing was a great outlet for us.
Like I said we were playing well, if the finishing was more clinical we wouldn't even be bothering with this talk of Bellamy.
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