Kneejerk Crouch thread...

[kurtangle01]

Kurt you say unlucky, I say not clinical enough.

I like Crouchie a lot, but he misses too many clear chances to be a player for a top title winning club.

I do agree with you about him not being "clinical" enough but to be fair to him VDS pulled off what looked to me like a good save. I thought that it was in the minute it left his foot. What dissapointed me more though was that nobody followed the ball in and had a stab at the rebound.

[carrsim]

[QUOTE=CharlieMansonsSquint;322584]

Frankly the game was there to be won and we do not have that cutting edge.QUOTE]

Frankly speaking we just don't have good enough attackers.

Bellamy, Kuyt, Crouch, Pennant, Gonzalez decent to good players all, but they don't scare anyone, maybe Bellamy with his pace but his end product today was lacking.

and there it is. i really like our attackers but we need to create more and finish a higher percentage of chances we do create. so that means new ones if these can't rise to it often enough.

and probably why we'll be linked to every attacker under the sun in the next few months

[kurtangle01]

and there it is. i really like our attackers but we need to create more and finish a higher percentage of chances we do create. so that means new ones if these can't rise to it often enough.

and probably why we'll be linked to every attacker under the sun in the next few months

If we scored half our chances this season we would be right up there but unfortunately we always seem to need 10 shots to score 1.

We need a couple of players who given even as much as a sight at goal work the keeper and have opposition defences in a panic.

The filth were still very jammy today and scored their only shot of the second half. We need to be a bit more like that.

[Marky]

No.Scapegoats

[Rigadon]

Sissoko was the biggest mystery today. Not only did he look like a pub footballer but he seemed to be playing really far up the pitch in an attacking role. Sissoko's strengths are in tackling, simple passing (usually!) and interceptions. Alonso's are creative passing and shooting - they were playing in each other's positions and it was obvious!

Yet they dominated the midfield. Rafa got it right.

[Darth Marty]

dont blame rafa today, i thought in the 2nd half we really went at them cos we could sense a victory, its plain and simple that we need, really ****ing need, a clinical centre forward.....**** me id pay 100mill for alan shearer in his prime now.....we simply must pay for the best possible centre forward in the summer...PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[Marky]

Hindsight's a wonderful thing but Bellamy should of have played the full 90, along with Carragher he was our best player.

[Dhav]

Hindsight's a wonderful thing but Bellamy should of have played the full 90, along with Carragher he was our best player.

Our best player who fluffed a one-on-one with the keeper thanks to bad ball-control and also flashed a poor ball across the goal when it would have been easier to find Kuyt and give him a simple tap in.

Bellamy was dangerous but not completely infallible. In fact given the positions he got in I thought he was quite wasteful.

[Marky]

Our best player who fluffed a one-on-one with the keeper thanks to bad ball-control and also flashed a poor ball across the goal when it would have been easier to find Kuyt and give him a simple tap in.

Bellamy was dangerous but not completely infallible. In fact given the positions he got in I thought he was quite wasteful.

STRIKER IN MISSING A CHANCE SHOCKER h:
Fair enough he could have played a better ball to Kuyt but as Gray said in commentary maybe he thought that was the only place he could deliver
the ball?

Bellamy was a threat throughout, he tore Vidic and Evra apart throughout, he was sharp, lively and inventive from the start.
Unlucky not to get himself a goal.

[Dhav]

STRIKER IN MISSING A CHANCE SHOCKER h:
Fair enough he could have played a better ball to Kuyt but as Gray said in commentary maybe he thought that was the only place he could deliver
the ball?

Bellamy was a threat throughout, he tore Vidic and Evra apart throughout, he was sharp, lively and inventive from the start.
Unlucky not to get himself a goal.

Granted, i agree with you that he was our biggest threat, far more threatening than Kuyt, but against teams like United we dont have that clinical efficiency to take just one or two chances of those we create in the same way that those teams do. In this game we created 5-6 good chances and took none, including Bellamy. If you take this match, the one we lost at Stamford Bridge this season and the one at Old Trafford last season with Ferdinand's last minute goal, I bet the opposition in those three matches combined didn't create as many chances as we had today, yet we lost all of those games, because we dont have the clinical finishers they do.

Bellamy was a threat today, but I dont blame Rafa for taking him off because he was getting into positions, but was missing chances.

I long for the days of Owen circa 2001-2002 when we would create one chance a game but Owen would invariably take it.

[johnly]

The Guy has got a broken nose! FFS I am not supprised he did not head the ball.

If you had your faced smashed in, would you go heading a football thats coming at you at high speed?

[Dhav]

If you had your faced smashed in, would you go heading a football thats coming at you at high speed?

Surely his heading is not so bad that he is going to go for it with his nose as opposed to his forehead?

And if his nose was in such bad shape could he not wear some sort of protection?

[Los Rojos]

Bellamy was a threat today, but I dont blame Rafa for taking him off because he was getting into positions, but was missing chances.

I can only think of one chance which Bellamy had and he did well to get a shot off after a poor first touch.

You're being a bit harsh on Bellers today I think, mate.

[Dhav]

I can only think of one chance which Bellamy had and he did well to get a shot off after a poor first touch.

You're being a bit harsh on Bellers today I think, mate.

You're probably right mate. That poor touch you talk about probably cost us the game though. And it was a poor cross for Kuyt.

Fair dues to the lad though, he scored today. Offside or not, there is no way that linesman could have seen for certain that it was offside, so he shouldn't have given it

That tosser Andy Gray was saying the linesman made a great decision - bull****. He may have made the correct decision, but there is no way he could have seen the offside and therefore make a great decision based on what he saw. He took a guess based on seeing Bellamy being in an offside position when he received the ball.

[tomasjj]

If you had your faced smashed in, would you go heading a football thats coming at you at high speed?

If so, then he shouldn't have been on the pitch.