From what I watched last night:
- Torres is still well short of fitness. It's so obvious. He wants to help us so badly but I'm not sure playing him now, even though we're devoid of options, is the smartest thing for the lad.
- Lucas is not capable of playing in a 4-4-2. We can mask his deficiencies in a 4-2-3-1 but not a 4-4-2. He's just not a very good football and I don't care what RAWK tells me
- Ngog had a poor game. I still don't see HOW people want him dropped when we have so few goalscoring options. Who else can score besides him? Gerrard? Torres? Kuyt? That's it people ... We need him there b/c at least he's capable of scoring a goal, or two.
- Jovanovic is a Kuyt with speed. I like him but to have him AND kuyt on the wing is giving us the same problem that we had with Rafa the past few years. Both will give 110% on the pitch but is that really enough?
- Magic ... What happened to him? That's two games where he rarely attacked. Odd.
- I'm glad we no longer have to worry about Gerrard. He's back to his old self, and that means I'm feeling even more sorry for him. It's just not a very good team. But what can you do when your fucking owners won't let you even spend 15 million quid.
Ideas to perhaps turn it around:
- If we're going to go with a 4-4-2, put Babel in (either next to Torres or on the wrong). I know I know, he's dumb as fuck blah blah blah and Ngog works far harder than him, but he's capable of scoring goals and scaring the opposition.
- Put Magic on the right wing and start Kelly at RB.
- the middle should always be Gerrard + Poulson/Mascher.
- Torres is still well short of fitness. It's so obvious. He wants to help us so badly but I'm not sure playing him now, even though we're devoid of options, is the smartest thing for the lad.
- Lucas is not capable of playing in a 4-4-2. We can mask his deficiencies in a 4-2-3-1 but not a 4-4-2. He's just not a very good football and I don't care what RAWK tells me
- Ngog had a poor game. I still don't see HOW people want him dropped when we have so few goalscoring options. Who else can score besides him? Gerrard? Torres? Kuyt? That's it people ... We need him there b/c at least he's capable of scoring a goal, or two.
- Jovanovic is a Kuyt with speed. I like him but to have him AND kuyt on the wing is giving us the same problem that we had with Rafa the past few years. Both will give 110% on the pitch but is that really enough?
- Magic ... What happened to him? That's two games where he rarely attacked. Odd.
- I'm glad we no longer have to worry about Gerrard. He's back to his old self, and that means I'm feeling even more sorry for him. It's just not a very good team. But what can you do when your fucking owners won't let you even spend 15 million quid.
Ideas to perhaps turn it around:
- If we're going to go with a 4-4-2, put Babel in (either next to Torres or on the wrong). I know I know, he's dumb as fuck blah blah blah and Ngog works far harder than him, but he's capable of scoring goals and scaring the opposition.
- Put Magic on the right wing and start Kelly at RB.
- the middle should always be Gerrard + Poulson/Mascher.