| Fer and Taarabt 18:32 - Jan 10 with 5933 views | DWQPR |
At Knutsford services having a cuppa on the way home. We saw a player today who according to 'Arry can play number 10 and frankly has been shît all season and showed today exactly what I mean and another player who we all know can play the number 10 role with his eyes shut and with an additional 3 stone of ballast and showed why Redknapp is a cûnt for not playing him this season. Taarabt was the best player on the park for us today. |  |
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| Fer and Taarabt on 12:38 - Jan 11 with 746 views | JonDoeman |
| Fer and Taarabt on 12:04 - Jan 11 by Northernr |
Taarabt was our best player yesterday. Isla's tackle for the first goal was embarrassing and he gave it away for the second. |
Just a shame that was his first start of the season on the TENTH OF JANUARY.
Shop window, more like a car boot sale!! |  |
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| Fer and Taarabt on 13:39 - Jan 11 with 686 views | terryb |
I saw it on a stream & so I could only see what the cameras featured & have no idea about any of the ball running etc.
From that limited view, I would have said that Taarabt was not our best player or outstanding. However, he was far from out of place, looked fit & BY GOD it was good to see someone want the ball & move into space to receive it. It was the best I have een from that position this season.
Isla at fault for the first goal? Partly. It looks terrible when a player receives a ball from a throw in, goes past three players & scores. Especially when he has nutmegged two of those defenders (Isla & Dunne), but I seem to recall we all praised Adel when he did this against Swansea rather than just say it was poor defending.
The second goal is another matter. Yes, Isla's header went straight to a Burnley player (the same as most headed clearances go straight to an opponent) but the goal was due to the lack of strength from Caulker. Ings only had to blow on him to win the ball.
From my stream, it looked as if we looked capable of avoiding defeat until we made the substitutions. With the arrival of OBZ we lost any shape & made life far easier for Burnley. How Fer was kept on but Vargas removed was beyond my comprehension.
For me, the worst thing about yesterday, is that this was possibly our best away performance of the season! | | | |
| Fer and Taarabt on 14:07 - Jan 11 with 663 views | ngbqpr |
That was a strange one.
To be fair to the players, we didn't capitulate - personally I wouldn't question their commitment yesterday (maybe why Dunne & Hill lost their rag with Del Boy at the end). It wasn't a humiliation (unless you're one of those people who thinks losing to the likes of Burnley is in itself a humiliation - which I don't). But...
...my fear was we'd lose to Burnley's better spirit - but what we lost to was their better organisation and, it has to be said, management. They looked like a settled team with a plan. We looked like a group of players with a fair smattering of talent...who'd met for the first time at training the day before. Dyche 1 Redknapp 0.
Adel and Barton were always showing for the ball and trying to move it on quickly & intelligently (Adel with far more success)...Fer I thought worked hard but is just not a left sided player (and what was that hoofing every goal kick his way all about?)...Vargas looked dangerous first half but faded second...Charlie worked hard as per...Henry did what Henry does, limited but committed...and we looked more like scoring than at any other away games this season
Ultimately we were undone by two moments of woeful defending by players who can & should do better.
I actually thought we did 'go for it' and didn't treat it as a bonus game. If only we'd nicked a late equaliser (say with Caulker's header), it might just have given us a tiny bit of confidence for the next road trip - instead we lose the first of the batch of winnable aways, it kicks off with Del Boy, 'arry moans & moans again, spouting a load of crap that must demoralise the players as much as the fans...and we remain in this awful away cycle... |  |
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