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Originally Posted By: thundyr
Solid performance, but hardly awe-inspiring in the final third as usual. Suarez was pretty quiet the whole game, but we did struggle to get the ball to him. Beat the keeper twice but failed to score - is it bad luck or bad finishing?

Good win over a poor side away from home though. Carra looked terrible, Shelvey looked decent, was quite impressed with Downing for once, Adam was poor, Henderson did enough without excelling, Bellers had a great game. The rest didn't need to do too much, though I expected a bit more from Johnson in the final third.

Level with the gunners, 3 off Chelsea in 4th. Much more like it, though in truth Wigan did us a big favour, so now they need to roll over to us next week.


Mostly agree thundyr, apart from I cant see why you'd say henderson was decent if adam was poor. Henderson was really very disapointing for me, and gave the ball away a lot. Carroll did nothing in 20 minutes and out of all his touches gave the ball away half of them. Bellamy was great up until the whole team went flat some way into the second half. Really excited by shelvey, looked like he could grow into a real player for us (obviously very early days yet), downing had a much better game but still was just decent.

And in answer to your question, I think one was bad finishing and one was unlucky.

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Originally Posted By: thundyr
Solid performance, but hardly awe-inspiring in the final third as usual. Suarez was pretty quiet the whole game, but we did struggle to get the ball to him. Beat the keeper twice but failed to score - is it bad luck or bad finishing?

I'd say mainly bad luck. On the first one, he did really well to work the space for the shot, and was a bit unlucky not to score, but you have to say that you expect him to bury that one. As for the second one, that was a moment of magic that you can't criticise him for not scoring.

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Good win over a poor side away from home though. Carra looked terrible, Shelvey looked decent, was quite impressed with Downing for once, Adam was poor, Henderson did enough without excelling, Bellers had a great game. The rest didn't need to do too much, though I expected a bit more from Johnson in the final third.

I'd agree with all of that aside from a couple of points. I think Adam was poor in the first half, but I think he was a lot better in the second - not up to his normal level though. A few people criticising Henderson (shock shock!!), but I agree that he did enough. Didn't do anything outstanding, but he got around and passes the ball well and efficiently - something often overlooked. I'd imagine his passing stats for the game would be pretty high. Also, I thought Enrique was worth a mention - he was his usual solid reliable self at the back.


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I was just about to say thats some crystal ball you got there Stanley, until you ruined it with the penalty bit!

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good performance today.villa were lucky to get nil and we were unlucky not to get a hatfull.Glen Johnson stood out for me today.i thought he was excellent.

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Originally Posted By: Annefield58
I was just about to say thats some crystal ball you got there Stanley, until you ruined it with the penalty bit!


Two things

One it was not fully charged
Two I have never read one before and I misread it due to my inexperience not the ball itself.

Had another go tonight and I am going to stub my toe at 8.58 am tommorrow morning so I am going to wear trainers to cushion the blow.


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good performance yesterday. should have scored 5 or 6 but at least we managed to score twice and that's a step in the right direction...

our defence looks very solid and there's no reason at all to bring carra into the starting XI again. he actually looked a bit shaky when he came on...nice for skrtel to get a goal. we've had the most corner kicks in the league this season but up until this game we'd only managed to score from one so it was good to get the goals the way we did yesterday (although villa has the worst defensive record when it comes to corners)

suarez had a good game again but he always has to create his own chances and maybe that's the reason why he doesn't always manages to score. we definitely need a new striker in jan, a real goalscorer who can partner suarez up front.

over all very pleased with our performance in this game smile


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I was just about to say thats some crystal ball you got there Stanley, until you ruined it with the penalty bit!


Two things

One it was not fully charged
Two I have never read one before and I misread it due to my inexperience not the ball itself.

Had another go tonight and I am going to stub my toe at 8.58 am tommorrow morning so I am going to wear trainers to cushion the blow.

Fair enough Stanley, what does it say about the wigan match...just between us two? I'm heading down to the bookies later on so I'll stick a few bob on it's predictions.

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Ima bit late but here we go. I was actually disapoiinted because everyone was average besides Bells and Shelvey. Johnson had a few runs and shot but nothing special. Villa were soo poor that they basically gave us the win and we should of won 5-6 goals again but we didn't. Happy with 3 points but disapointed with only 2 goals.


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