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Thundyr, I honestly think that as people criticise carroll and you have a soft spot for him you go too far the other way to balance it out.

I can not see in a million years how you think Carroll had a 'very good game'. I don't blame him as we were down to 10 men and he had no support so I don't criticise him for the performance, in fact it was a very decent one. Analysing it,

A few good knock downs/lay offs to keep possession.
I saw good movement 3 times from him, once resulting in a goal, once resulting in a chance he 100% should have burried earlier in the game.
Didn't do much else.

Now again I say this isn't anything wrong with his performance. He did decent with whatever ball he had. I thought at times he could have held it up better. When you have 10 men, for a very good performance from that type of striker I would expect him to take pressure off the defenders by holding up the ball much better than he did. I am delighted for myself and for him that he got the winning goal. Credit for playing till the end.

But that was a decent performance capped with good goal in my opinion. I would never call it a very good performance.

Credit to the lads.for last night. im quick enough to slag off when we lose so well done. mom for me was henderson. did well out of position and looked a lot more comfy deployed deeper

Absolutely massive credit. Some real fight in most of the players in an unfamiliar team and a man down. Was really pleasing to see.

Disagree on henderson, he was troubled every time Hoilett ran at him, didn't look comfy at all in my opinion. Not his fault though, don't blame him, wasn't his position, just disagree that he looked 'comfy'.

Difficult to say who motm was...was just an impressive robust team performance for the most part.

bellamy was awful last night. he was so greedy. it was like watching one of the big boys playing with the lil'uns at school, i wouldn't mind but he only did 1 thing of any note all game. every other time he touched the ball he fvcked it up. hendo, skrtel, coates, johnson and agger were all brilliant especially hendo -playing completely out of position but he did very well- and agger he was on a one man mission to win that game, maybe trying to show kenny he is defo fit enough to start saturday. either way he was the difference in the second half. felt sorry for shelvey after the red card because he was looking good playing off of carroll shame he had to play deeper, he really is starting to look like a good player, i hope gets the chances at LFC. IMO carroll played as well as he always does. the difference was he wasn't taken off after 60 mins. hopefully scoring a winning goal like that will give him a big boost.

The encouraging thing last night was that the team dug in when they went down to 10 men.

More players had good games than had bad games and it's been a while since I thought that.

+1

first time in a long time that we stopped feeling sorry for ourselves. Hendo far more aggressive vocally to teammates as well as in his play. a bit of belief maybe?

was not a polished performance but a few more of these and we would not have so few points. not about pretty patterns, a bit of dogged determination can also win games