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New Jersey wrote:I'd like to a midfield of Downing, Kouyate, Diame and Poyet. Downing played well today, Noble is pretty ordinary to me, sort of Steve Sidwell level, actually Sidwell scores more. People talk about him being a great passer and he should be in the England squad, I really don't see it. Link Kouyate and Diame together in the midfield, with Poyet in Nolan's position pulling the strings, and have Downing as the wide outlet.
Noble was absolutely superb today. Him and Kouyate dominated the middle of the park.
Once again like last season, the opposition go down to 10 and we still let them dictate the game.
Allardyce plays for the clean sheet and the win is a bonus. Unfortunately that's what happens when we don't try and kill a game off when we have a chance.
Largely very positive. A mistake cost us the game which is disappointing. I'm still a keep Sam person, but i would love to know his logic for not making the change at 60 minutes to go 2 up top when we were in the ascendancy. Then Collins did what he always does, made his one massive gaffe. Lost our impetus.
Very very unlucky to lose, and with a better striker i think we could have won that 2 or 3 nil today, but hey ho.
New signings looked very good. Kouyate seems like a crowd favourite already and Cresswell was very very solid and composed for his first premiership game. Valencia didn't really get to see much of, wrong time to bring him on should have been earlier to let him catch up with the speed of the game.
_fortunes_ wrote:Can't beat a 10 man team when we've clearly had them on the ropes.
Come out 2nd half and play the ball around the middle, pass back move the ball laterally ad infinitum, At least when Diame came on he tried moving it forward, took some players on made it a sense of urgency. If Downing had half a right foot we'd be home in the 85th. On the 6 effing yard line we can't seem to score.
Still I guess we can take some positives out of this
Downing was absoloutley immense and that was one unbelievably good save ,
How can you say that!? We were all over them, pulling the apart and creating chance after chance for about half an hour. Downing had his best game for about a year (some might give the manager some credit considering he's such a renowned confidence player), Kouyate and Noble completely dominated the midfield, and Cresswell and O'Brien bombed up the line on a regular basis.
We didn't actually create many genuine chances at all...
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I blame Collins. He always gives the opposition a chance. He makes some excellent last minute blocks in games but the rest of the time he is suspect. Pointless second yellow. Completely ****ed it for us. I think Noble makes a lot of mistakes too for all his hard work.
k-r-c wrote:Once again like last season, the opposition go down to 10 and we still let them dictate the game.
Allardyce plays for the clean sheet and the win is a bonus. Unfortunately that's what happens when we don't try and kill a game off when we have a chance.
Nothing's changed.
Careful with this valid opinion, people will accuse us 'retards' of accusing him with hoofball.
I was willing the minutes to fly by in extra time as I could just feel what was going to happen. We didn't deserve to lose but should have taken advantage with the extra man
Kouyate, Cresswell, Nobes and Downing were incredible today. Ginge needs replacing sharpish. Vaz Te couldn't finish his dinner, Nolan was just Nolan. We should never have lost that.
Poor use of substitutions from Allardyce and what was Collins doing committing a ridiculous yellow card offence when already booked ? Hopefully he will also finally see the light with Carlton and put Sakho and Valencia in for our next match. Bet he don't though. Bet it will be as you were.
Cresswell was the bee's knees. Incredible composure on the ball, looked good moving forward. Great games from Downing and Kouyate-- good to see players other than Noble really putting a shift in. This squad could be fun to watch as they learn to play together.
simon hammer wrote:
Re read the post...plenty of positives from the PERFORMANCE, not the result.
Still...if you only focus on the result then I agree with you 100%
i'm not saying there wasn't positives but we couldn't finish and as usual we lacked concentration. so, i personally would rather not have that 37 more times.
