Downing is alright for £6m I thought, he's a guaranteed starter and should chip in with assists. Wes Brown has been playing all pre-season and I think they'll win on Saturday so could be looking at a clean sheet.
Sturridge scored twice and Luis Alberto scored the other. Krul, Ben Arfa, Anita and Obertan all played some of the match. They started with a team consisting of Agger, Enrique, Lucas, Luis Alberto, Coutinho and Sturridge.
This is going off RAWK and Twitter.
I'd take what Nolan achieved here over what Ben Arfa has achieved in his whole career personally.
You have serious issues Jack.
Him helping us get promoted then helping keep us up mean nothing then?
If only he'd have skinned 9 players when he scored that hat-trick against the mackems etc.
I agree. Love Ben Arfa, but plenty injuries lasting longer than they should in past 18 months, and the occasional brilliant flash of genius ISN'T as high an achievement to what Nolan did (still don't forgive him for his part in the Carroll saga though)
The camparison is between Nolan's spell here and Ben Arfa's whole career achievements.
Downing will do well at West Ham and they'll finish above us, can't really see anything else happening with that.
What did we play with Ba, Ben Arfa & Cisse? It was certainly advertised on teamsheets and through the official twitter as a 4-3-3.
4-2-3-1
Cabaye barely had to track back and get goal-side when the other team had the ball.
Don't agree with that given that Ben Arfa was told to track back as much as anyone.
Also playing a midfield 3 against a 2 you can always sort out which one of the 3 is able to 'cheat' as such and have little to no defensive responsibility.