QUOTE(Kerplunk @ Dec 5 2010, 02:46 PM)
i missed the earlier portion of the first half, but i'll take the word of those who watched and concurred at least the tempo was high. well imo that tempo should've been replicated in the second half, and again this raises questions of the fitness of our senior players. the same issue keeps popping up doesn't it? i'm beginning to see a worrying pattern here..
besides that i don't see how seamus coleman's desperate 'tackle' on ashley was legal. he was waiting to tap it into an empty net after great work from paulo (though he didn't do nuts in defense) down the touchline, and although one of the commentators was wetting himself saying how it was such an awesome challenge, it wasn't. i thought maybe ashley mistimed his run or paulo's cross wasn't accurate but it was picture perfect. coleman clattered into ashley even before the ball had reached him and it was a clear penalty. it doesn't take a FIFA expert to tell u that you're supposed to challenge for the ball, not the man. ashley was brought down when he couldn't miss and coleman knew exactly what he was doing. learning a lot from cahill already i presume.
that would've put us up 2-0, and like i said before we're just not catching the breaks at the moment. we have to work harder but it doesn't seem like anything can get us out of this rut. if i could chip in a BM expression, 'mati akal' would be the perfect description of how our team play has looked for the the past 4,5 games.
gry, although i agree tactics play a huge part in winning a game, i'm not sure we can pin everything on carlo. because miscontrolling the ball countless times and awful finishing sure as hell has nothing to do with tactics.
Yea first half was brilliant,I was thinking it's been a long time since I last seen them play that wonderful,thinking that at last December wouldn't be so bad,turns out 2nd half was abysmal as hell
And also there was one time where one Everton defender(the nigger I think),he handled the ball but the referee didn't see it,I thought that should be a penalty,even the commentators said so,if the referee had seen it it was a penalty already.
And I feel it's the players themselves who are damn lazy and complacent,not the tactics,our tactics worked brilliantly in the first half,but 2nd half,dunno wat happened at all..absymal..
Anelka getting slow and old,Kalou inconsistent,Drogba not good even though he scored that penalty(that was a lucky pass from Phil Neville,and it was never a penalty,Anelka jumped into Howard,damn obvious),and we were lucky to be 1-0 up,that was never a penalty,but anyway if Howard hadn't did that Anelka would have scored anyway,but it was still lucky..
And the substitutions was damn BIZZARE,Ramires for Anelka?Pathetic..Ferreira for Bosingwa?What the hell for?Bosingwa isn't fully fit?Thought he played for Portugal that day for a full 90 mins..and Sturridge for Mikel..that was ok as I could see Sturridge switching place with Ramires..And even Cech himself was dumbfounded with the substitution of Ramires for Anelka..Don't believe?Go watch the game again,pay every single attention to detail..and people on Soccernet are saying that Carlo's the one who's afraid and his substitutions mirrors that,I kind of agree really..really really dumb substitutions
If I was the manager I would drop the out of form players,no questions,I play FM11 and I don't care how the players feel

,lol I bet some of you guys feel like replacing Carlo now?
And oh yea,Everton should have got a full 3 points,no denying that
This post has been edited by bigbangformula: Dec 5 2010, 04:10 PM