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i don't know about triumphant but i'm bloody freezing.
i've always hated week night league games and tonight felt the same old.
since we started playing regular champions league, weeknight league games have had a really crap atmosphere - tonight was no exception.
i've had enough of dirk, he was far worse than lucas tonight who apart from that weak shot, stupid foul, getting caught on the ball and going missing too often had an ok game. he is looking better whilst dirk is playing some awful football.
the weather was cold, the sort of cold where hamstrings go - riera looked like he was going to cry poor lad - but he did have a really poor game, far too greedy too often.
yossi was doing well until we swapped him to the left, looked like his hamstring went as well, shame as he's been one of our best players.
skertel is increasingly looking more and more average every time i see him play.
magic was unbelievably very very good whilst masch needs to keep his gob shut more - he played well though.
babel didn't do much either way and aquilani both looked off the pace and imo was brought on too late. we seemed to lose the impetus we had before we equalised.
n'gog took his goal really well but that dive was shocking - going to have to watch a replay but we could see it from the other side of the stadium.
i don't necessarily think rafa fucked up tonight, a lot didn't go our way but i really do think aquilani should have been brought on earlier and kuyt really needs dropping - that's if we had any players left to replace him. we never really attacked in the way chelsea or utd would have done if they had been in our situation.
anyone who believes the league is still on must be on some serious happy pills. i know we've got a weakened side and everything but tonight was mid table birmingham ffs.
1 win in 9 games - i do not remember a time when it was ever so bad.
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Yea, the only thing I disagree with is the "we never really attacked the way chelsea or Utd would have done". We were hammering them, we just needed something a bit sharper. Gerrard almost provided that. There were lots of balls into the box, some long shots, we weren't quite clever enough, but that's unsurprising, because we have poor finishers and a lot of average attacking players, especially at CM right now.
This has been a seriously depressing season.
