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Maybe but that was pre Keegan, where he was under-confident and under isolation, he has never been the same since Keegan put him in that 4-3-3 with a good contribution to the team, much improved general play and goals. I think it would be unfair to judge how good Martins is until we've seen more of him. Please name a player like him? how can you replace that pace when there are not many if any quicker?

Today i think showed how good a player he really is, technically looked good, and was the only real threat for me.

Personally think that Dunne has looked shit without Richards. Never looked a player before this season either.

His build up play has really stood out under Keegan, maybe because he's been encouraged to play the ball around on the floor rather than be expected to control 70 yard balls being fired out from the back. Agree, his infamous first touch has actually looked pretty good, not that it was that bad anyway. Shown good skills and some intelligent passing.

According to telegraph 91% passing accuracy today, and their MOTM.

Disagree, his passing this season has been excellent just today he was a bit off. I can live with the odd miss-hit pass, what pleases me is the intent to play the ball, or the ideas behind the passes. Enrique was trying to set Martins away with a curved channel ball in between the full-back and centre-half, while playing on the touchline himself, one of the hardest passes to pull off. With such passes, you're going to send a few astray, but it only takes one killer ball.... I agree, some of his passes this season have been brilliant, and he seems to consistently pull them off. Him and Martins are an extremely dangerous combination down that left flank.

Disagree, his passing this season has been excellent just today he was a bit off.

I watched Milan vs Empoli (i think) and Pato has an absolute mare, scored the goal but the commentators lambasted him for not passing. Rightly so imo, just tried to dribble past everyone.

Yer, i thought him and Bojan were supposed to be the best youngsters in Spain.

Personally thought that Martins displayed great technical ability today, first touch looked pretty good imo.

i think it's disgusting how the bbc's priorities lie within the title race over good football games, shambolic.

Did he do some flips?

YESSSSSSS

Henry was something else, he was not as skillful as Ronaldo but alot more elegant with the way he moved and picked things out, he never scored a 'scrappy' goal.

I thought Reyes was good for Arsenal (from memory). The only reason they sold him was because he was doing things like refusing to play and not getting stuck in and being an all round twat. Didn't he score quite alot? certainly remember a couple of screamers from him.

Had more than his fair share of injury problems, if my memory serves me correctly.

Nah he only gave it away 2/3 times.

Harsh imo, after a shaky first few minutes looked pretty good in general play yesterday showing some nice skill and neat touches, Fulham had no answer for him.

Harper - 6.5 - Only a couple of saves to make. Beye - 6.5 - Solid, no gallivanting down the flank but still got forward a bit, definitely wasn't MOTM imo. Taylor - 7 - Solid Enough Faye - 7 - Solid Enough Enrique - 7.5 - For me, he is quality. He is so confident in his own ability and that left foot really is something else. Butt - 7 - Passing was once again pretty pap, but was more than capable but left Bullard a bit too much room. Barton - 7.5 - For me he was really good today, good passing didn't lose the ball much and some clever balls into space, much improved. Geremi - 7 - He is so slow but an intelligent footballer. Lovely assist for Owen. Martins - 7 - Grew into the game, link up and general play looked better. Viduka - 7 - Was very inconsistent with some of his hold up play which either ended up with a chance created or him losing the ball. Good finish for the goal. Owen - 8 - MOTM, some of his passing was brilliant, yep missed a sitter and a couple more but good finish and an impressive show. As a word on Bullard, looks a good player however he wasn't very progressive imo with most of his passes going to the side and not really creating much.

Griffin

is this a whoosh ? No, as we aren't giving Martins any balls over the top to run onto just little dinks between defenders and he isn't clever enough to do read these. If he isn't going to make his own runs with his lack of brain make him run instead get it up there as quick as, he has enough pace.

Balls over the top are what we should be giving Martins, even if the defender looks like he is there first, Martins can still get past him and create a decent shot a la Riise and Liverpool yesterday.

Well there was one person back? Whoever made that decision it wasn't a good one.

It was a very naive decision to leave just one player back in the 89th minute, a point is better than no points and we are not in a position to be so risky.

Today imo was our big day, most important game. IMO we should have won, they were crap but when the shits against you, sucker punch goals like that do happen. It was naive to leave just one player back in the 90th minute, 1 point is better than none.