Brilliant today and imo proves we can be just as good if not better without Robinho, I also think the team that finished the game today is the team we should be playing away from home from now on except bring Bellamy back and de Jong in for Headless.
Team for away games:
...................Given....................
Zabaleta...Dunne...Onuoha...Bridge
Ireland...de Jong....Kompany...SWP
......Evans / Bojinov...Bellamy.......
That team I guarantee will get us some good points away from home.
My ratings for tonight:
Given - 7, didn't have too much to do but when needed he was there, couple of great saves.
Zabaleta - 9 (MOM), had Young in his back pocket first half and defended him well second half, some great challenges and one of his best games for us.
Dunne - 9, best game for us for a while, won nearly every header against some big players and generally defended well.
Onuoha - 8, carried on his good consistency and his partnership with Dunne is looking great.
Bridge - 8, a lot better today since he had some help by Ireland first half and SWP second, attacked well and probably his best game for us so far.
SWP - 9, he's back to his best, running at players again and looked really keen, the break has clearly done him good. Deserved his goal.
de Jong - 8, brilliant again, swept everything up and was gutted when he went off injured.
Kompany - 8, carries on his consistency with another great performance, buy of the season by a mile!!
Elano - 8, a few things wern't coming off for him at first but carried on and put in a great performance, some brilliant through balls like he used to do last season.
Ireland - 8, ran his bollocks off again, must have completed his 15th marathon this season with the amount of running he does, class passing and quality game again.
Caicedo - 6, looked slow, first touch was awful and just looked very poor today.
Fernandes - 5, this guy is just not a footballer, must have a pass completion of 2%, ran around a lot but was just pointless tbh.
Evans - 8, did more in 15 mins than Caicedo did all game, looked like he wanted it, won headers, quality chest for Elano's shot and did amazing for SWP's goal.
Bojinov - 7, came on and had some great touches, did well for the goal and I can't wait for him to be fully fit.