madras Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Lovely assist from Routledge. It's a strange situation with him, okay you could say that he wouldn't beat the man as easily in the Premier League but there's absolutely no logical reason why he can produce that quality of cross in the Championship but not at this level. I think Routledge's problem is that he's a very frail, confidence player. Stick him at that level, and he feels it is "his" platform, he can do it, and has done it with consistency. He has never done it in the top flight, and now has three experiences of trying to do so, and failed each time, so it is just getting harder for him. Particularly when he's not given regular starts I guess. honestly didn't think he was that bad when he played for us this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Lovely assist from Routledge. It's a strange situation with him, okay you could say that he wouldn't beat the man as easily in the Premier League but there's absolutely no logical reason why he can produce that quality of cross in the Championship but not at this level. I think Routledge's problem is that he's a very frail, confidence player. Stick him at that level, and he feels it is "his" platform, he can do it, and has done it with consistency. He has never done it in the top flight, and now has three experiences of trying to do so, and failed each time, so it is just getting harder for him. Particularly when he's not given regular starts I guess. honestly didn't think he was that bad when he played for us this season. Me neither. Thought he was our best player in some of the games we lost tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 He's been our MOTM on at least 2 occasions this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Lovely assist from Routledge. It's a strange situation with him, okay you could say that he wouldn't beat the man as easily in the Premier League but there's absolutely no logical reason why he can produce that quality of cross in the Championship but not at this level. I think Routledge's problem is that he's a very frail, confidence player. Stick him at that level, and he feels it is "his" platform, he can do it, and has done it with consistency. He has never done it in the top flight, and now has three experiences of trying to do so, and failed each time, so it is just getting harder for him. Particularly when he's not given regular starts I guess. honestly didn't think he was that bad when he played for us this season. Me neither. Thought he was our best player in some of the games we lost tbh. agreed. suppose we'll have to blame him for chosing to play well in games where we lose and don't play well in general. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 He certainly would have been a decent option to bring off the bench when some of our games have become stretched with 15 or 20 mins to go. Tired defences are scared stiff of pace and that's the one thing he's got bags of. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Still can't get over how well Bournemouth are doing. Bradbury and big Steve Fletcher still yet to lose I think. Fantastic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Nice big boot from that Plymouth player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 that sending off for the Macc player. Just laced him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Immense week for us, I really didn't expect Madrid to drop points and this cushion could prove massive on our runup to El Clásico (we got Valencia, Sevilla, Villarreal away coming up before the Bernabéu game). Glad that we got a decent win with all the players missing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Snrub Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Are Madrid fans running out of patience with Jose yet? Not getting results + the football is not pleasing on the eye. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 It's horrible. He's taken them backwards, as a few of us predicted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Jose Mourinho : ''We played against one goalkeeper and 10 defenders for the second half. Only one team played to win. The other played to exhaustion and defended and they won the prize. We, who tried to win, are penalised for this.'' Bit hypocritical from Mou. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I hope Benzema gets out of there soon tbh (he'll probably be booted). I know it's partly his fault he's not performing but I can't help but feel it's a shame that he's wasting his career there. He's not Higuain and he's not a #9, unfortunately for him they have about 6 players that can play in the same spaces he likes to operate in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 There was some timid fan and media unrest during January but it died down when they made the cup final. The fortress mentality thing is also helping to get fans onboard with him, as amusing as the sight of Real Madrid playing victim is for everybody else in Spain. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 It's horrible. He's taken them backwards, as a few of us predicted. Slightly worse point ratio than Pellegrini so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 didnt pellegrini get madrid's highest ever points total, though? just tough luck that they were up against a side who were even better than that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishmael Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Jose Mourinho : ''We played against one goalkeeper and 10 defenders for the second half. Only one team played to win. The other played to exhaustion and defended and they won the prize. We, who tried to win, are penalised for this.'' Bit hypocritical from Mou. tbh, even when he sets out ultra-defensive tactics he does engineer attacking opportunities. i see what he is getting at Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Jose Mourinho : ''We played against one goalkeeper and 10 defenders for the second half. Only one team played to win. The other played to exhaustion and defended and they won the prize. We, who tried to win, are penalised for this.'' Welcome to how teams have been setting up against us since 2009. Have fun. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
womblemaster Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Everton played very well vs sunderland today. NExt week is gonna be a very tuff game. Arteta is back on form and beckkford is starting to score. Could be an even more interesting game than vs bolton. Another draw imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gash Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Jose Mourinho : ''We played against one goalkeeper and 10 defenders for the second half. Only one team played to win. The other played to exhaustion and defended and they won the prize. We, who tried to win, are penalised for this.'' Bit hypocritical from Mou. Hypocrisy of the highest order, he won the Champions League in such a way! Fuck off Mourinho! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Good luck today you child robbing cunts btw Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 It's a strange one for me. As much as I dislike Birmingham and would like an extra European place in the league, I'm a sucker for the underdog! Hopefully it's interesting at least. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I hope Arsenal absolutely embarrass them on their big fucking day out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Anyone know if Carroll is playing? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Anyone know if Carroll is playing? He's not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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