onceabluealways said:
He made one good header in our box - it's a shame he doesn't show the same desire at the other end. He was shocking again today i started to lose count of the number of times he gave it away. He is the weakest 6ft person I;ve ever seen when going up for headers. Silva embarassed him today showing him how to chase round instead of strolling around.
I saw it the same as you, yes defensively he does OK, but he's not really on the pitch for that is he ?
With 10 men for 80 minutes, we needed him to keep the ball, I'd say he was about 50/50 with that, he won virtually nothing in the air against Davies, OK nothing more,
His movement (or lack of it) in and around the box was poor, several good moves broke down as he was either not moving, in the wrong place, or moving the wrong way. He's paid to be a striker, today he was our only striker, in a team a man short, he didn't 'run his bollocks off' at all.
He got the goal in the end, and good finish it was, but the miss before that could easily have cost us 2 points, and had all that hard work by the others, not been rewarded because he missed another simple chance at the end, he would have been absolutely hammered on here tonight.
Anyway after the performance today I'd rather focus on the good things, and there were plenty of those, Hart looked back to his best, the defence were superb, and Zab offered a lot going forward despite us only having 10 men, Clichy had probably his best game of the season, the midfield
were just brilliant, Silva probably one of his best games for the club, Fernandinho excellent.
On Vinny, he takes too many risks, and today it cost him, though why the ball had gone back there in the first place I don't know, we'd been on the attack, and a little pressure from Hull caused us to flap, Vinny had a poor touch, then made a daft decision to go back to Hart, lost the ball (whether fouled or not), and then made an even dafter decision to pull the lad down. Not his finest moments in a blue shirt.
