Beren Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Thought he had a fantastic game, personally. His ability to spread the ball wide so accurately from such distance on such a consistent basis is little short of breathtaking tbh. Feels like a long time ago that we had a central midfielder who could do that. His set pieces were of varying quality, but he did deliver some good balls. Credit to Swansea, they defended well and without STaylor our players looked as harmless as eunuchs in the box. After a while I think he tried to angle his deliveries flatter to cause more problems (because Swansea were comfortably mopping up lofted looping efforts) and ended up hitting the first man a few times. Still, glad he gets a rest in a way - he's played every minute and Carling Cup games for a while now. Not the worst match for him to miss, and Tiote is back at least. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Just read that article, Cabaye was smiling a lot yesterday. Seemed to really be enjoying himself, which is good to see Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/newcastle-united/nufc-news/2011/12/18/yohan-cabaye-s-pass-pact-with-newcastle-boss-79310-29971585/ A COUPLE of months ago, Arsene Wenger gathered his scouts together at London Colney and posed them a pertinent question. Why, Arsenal’s professor wanted to know, hadn’t they brought him Yohan Cabaye – the France international bringing a touch of class to Newcastle United’s midfield? The answer was that they had presumed Cabaye would head for Real Madrid or even Barcelona. lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Olly B. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Graham Carr 1-0 Arsene Wenger Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 With Tiote back I'd like to see him push forward a bit more, as yesterday the gap between midfield and attack was a bit too much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 With Tiote back I'd like to see him push forward a bit more, as yesterday the gap between midfield and attack was a bit too much. Totally agreed and probably why we didn't win yesterday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David28 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. Was thinking this last night. We are missing someone in midfield making deep forward runs as I think Cabaye and Tiote are too similar in ways. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David28 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. Was thinking this last night. We are missing someone in midfield making deep forward runs as I think Cabaye and Tiote are too similar in ways. Normally we aren't missing such a player, because normally we've got Best and Ba and probably even Shola on his day to score us a goal. But on a day like yesterday, or on a day like the opening day against Arsenal - even against Wigan where Cabaye himself scored - we sometimes miss (a player like) Nolan to give us a goal out of nowhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VaVaVoom Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. Was thinking this last night. We are missing someone in midfield making deep forward runs as I think Cabaye and Tiote are too similar in ways. While at Lille Cabaye played that kinda Nolan role and got a good few goals arriving late in the area. I think with him he is still learning the english game and still workin on the understanding with Tiote...Im pretty confident that in time he will be getting us 7/8 goals a season like, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. Was thinking this last night. We are missing someone in midfield making deep forward runs as I think Cabaye and Tiote are too similar in ways. While at Lille Cabaye played that kinda Nolan role and got a good few goals arriving late in the area. I think with him he is still learning the english game and still workin on the understanding with Tiote...Im pretty confident that in time he will be getting us 7/8 goals a season like, I agree. Just needs to adapt game more. Have a team like Swansea putting 11 men behind the ball didn't help at all mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VaVaVoom Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. Was thinking this last night. We are missing someone in midfield making deep forward runs as I think Cabaye and Tiote are too similar in ways. While at Lille Cabaye played that kinda Nolan role and got a good few goals arriving late in the area. I think with him he is still learning the english game and still workin on the understanding with Tiote...Im pretty confident that in time he will be getting us 7/8 goals a season like, I agree. Just needs to adapt game more. Have a team like Swansea putting 11 men behind the ball didn't help at all mind. Exactly. But it think he has the ability to rise above that its all just a question of him adapting and that takes time. He's adapted well so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 As much as I like Cabaye, on a day like yesterday, Nolan would have given us a better chance of winning the game with being at the right place at the right time. totally right, for instance on Obertan's pull-back. that was too deep for Ba and Best, but ideal for a breaking midfielder. however you have to ask whether or not we'd have controlled the game as we did with Nolan in there instead of Cabaye. Swansea pack the midfield and control possession in most matches, and when we picked up the balls in wide areas it was usually because Cabaye had sprayed an early ball out there from deep. So with Nolan going missing i think the game would've panned out quite differently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Graham Carr 1-0 Arsene Wenger To be fair Arsenal got Gervinho ahead of us so it's more 1 - 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Graham Carr 1-0 Arsene Wenger To be fair Arsenal got Gervinho ahead of us so it's more 1 - 1 Cabaye was cheaper and better. We got Ba for free, so Carr 2-0 Wenger. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Yeah but I think we got Obertan as second choice to Gervinho, we'd have had Ba anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuv Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 His set pieces were poor again yesterday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 His set pieces were poor again yesterday. Apart from that free kick in the first few moments. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 And the one he put on Coloccini's head. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
80 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Would have liked to have seen Cabaye and Nolan play in the same team. Think there could have been a feast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steggy Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 I thought he was aactually pretty good yesterday. Played a motherfucker of a ball across the pitch early on for lightbulb skull to miscontrol. Also played that cheeky dink in to best that he chested down to the ba-meister. He also closes down so fuckin much, aint nobody got no time on the ball when yohans about Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 He's been pretty good at least in every game. It's going to be nice for him and Tiote to return, because Cabaye's only going to get better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crumpy Gunt Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 I hope Cabye is watching MOTD2. Bellamy just showed him how to deliver a corner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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