Yohan Cabaye retires

[Fenham Mag]

He's currently part of the French team watching the Spanish keep the ball and run rings around them. No goals yet though, Spain are looking for perfection first.

 

He'll be getting used to it for Sunday when Sunderland DOMINATE possession.

[Away Toon]

1-0 Ramos who hit the post first with a free header, put his hands on his head and then just in time watched the ball ricochet to him before he thumped it in from around 6 yards, nearly went over the top.

[Mole_Toonfan]

Deschamps reminds me of Souness in so many ways.

 

He's an absolute c*nt, thinks hes big man to discipline players for no reason, holds grudges against anyone and everyone, doesn't have a clue tactically etc etc.

[NEEJ]

Wish I could tell Deschamps how much of a prick he appears to be to his face. I've a feeling it would be immensely satisfying.

[Mole_Toonfan]

Wish I could tell Deschamps how much of a prick he appears to be to his face. I've a feeling it would be immensely satisfying.

 

Considering how much of a c*nt he is he would probably kick you in the calf when you turn your back.

[alpal78]

So you agree, then.

 

Eh I don't agree with your point. You were continuing the point made by timeEd32 that "his set pieces, which are free from excuses about formations, positions, etc., have been absolute garbage all season" by exteding it to virtually all of last season too. My point was that his direct freekicks have been good and over generalizing that his set pieces are absolutely garbage is rubbish.

 

 

[toontenacity]

Best NUFC passer of the ball since..?

[gbandit]

Best NUFC passer of the ball since..?

guthrie

[Wullie]

His corners really aren't that bad. We have absolutely no aerial threat and it doesn't matter how good the delivery is from a corner, if none of your players can beat the centre half to the ball, forget it.

[Flip]

Im a big Cabaye fan and defend him constantly. But his corner aren't very good Wullie. Rarely beats the first man, and when they do its those floating ones which the goalkeeper has full control over. 

[Ronaldo]

So you agree, then.

 

Eh I don't agree with your point. You were continuing the point made by timeEd32 that "his set pieces, which are free from excuses about formations, positions, etc., have been absolute garbage all season" by exteding it to virtually all of last season too. My point was that his direct freekicks have been good and over generalizing that his set pieces are absolutely garbage is rubbish.

 

 

 

His set pieces are poor at best, man. It's as simple as that.

[TRC]

It's rare that we have had someone with a decent corner over the years.

[Guest hydeous]

Barton - Caroll - Nolan worked decently.

 

Cabaye's got to whip a few in. He's got the skill to put them in the right place. Probably something that'll come when we're less desperate for goals and therefore less likely to use the Williamson at the far post routine which must be the only thing that works in training.

[Miercoles]

 

 

His set pieces are poor at best, man. It's as simple as that.

 

 

He takes a nice direct free kick now and then...

[mattypnufc]

He put in a belting cross for France the other night for their 'goal' that was ruled out for being offside (it wasn't). More like that please.

[AlanSkÃrare]

Best NUFC passer of the ball since..?

 

Solano.

[alpal78]

So you agree, then.

 

Eh I don't agree with your point. You were continuing the point made by timeEd32 that "his set pieces, which are free from excuses about formations, positions, etc., have been absolute garbage all season" by exteding it to virtually all of last season too. My point was that his direct freekicks have been good and over generalizing that his set pieces are absolutely garbage is rubbish.

 

 

 

His set pieces are poor at best, man. It's as simple as that.

 

and we're back to square where you overgeneralize his set pieces as poor. Hard for you to admist your mistake eh.

 

His corners are generally poor. His indirect freekicks are most likely a tactic that Pardew is asking him to execute i.e. hit to Williamson (which is being discussed in another thread) and his direct freekicks have usually been spot on, some nuance does make a big difference.

[ponsaelius]

The floated set piece (corners and free-kicks) is clearly instructional.

[Fenham Mag]

Don't know why we don't have Hatem on corners anyway.

 

 

Just a cheeky 1-2 with the man coming short, run into the box and cause mayhem, a lot better than what we are doing atm .

[Ronaldo]

So you agree, then.

 

Eh I don't agree with your point. You were continuing the point made by timeEd32 that "his set pieces, which are free from excuses about formations, positions, etc., have been absolute garbage all season" by exteding it to virtually all of last season too. My point was that his direct freekicks have been good and over generalizing that his set pieces are absolutely garbage is rubbish.

 

 

 

His set pieces are poor at best, man. It's as simple as that.

 

and we're back to square where you overgeneralize his set pieces as poor. Hard for you to admist your mistake eh.

 

His corners are generally poor. His indirect freekicks are most likely a tactic that Pardew is asking him to execute i.e. hit to Williamson (which is being discussed in another thread) and his direct freekicks have usually been spot on, some nuance does make a big difference.

 

Mistake.

 

You remind me of me in 2009, dude.

[Pilko]

Don't know why we don't have Hatem on corners anyway.

 

I do, because last season I can recall at least 3 or 4 occasions he put a corner into the side netting.

 

I swear pretty much every time Jonas has taken an outside-footed corner we've scored from it. He's only done it like 4 or 5 times ever though.

[Tooj]

Don't know why we don't have Hatem on corners anyway.

 

 

Probably because he tries to score from them.

[Fenham Mag]

Don't know why we don't have Hatem on corners anyway.

 

 

Probably because he tries to score from them.

 

Better than what we do

[sparta]

Had some great set pieces for the national team against spain

[EthiGeordie]

http://blogs.thescore.com/footyblog/2012/10/18/lyttleton-yohan-cabayes-key-to-success-the-xavi-century-club-100-passes-a-game/

 

 

One hundred passes. Every game, 100 passes. That’s not the only thing Yohan Cabaye looks to achieve in each match he plays, but he knows that if he completes 100 passes, it’s a good sign. He got the idea after reading an interview with Andres Iniesta, who said that if his Barcelona and Spain team-mate Xavi made under 100 passes in a match, he was furious. “That stuck with me,” said Cabaye. “One hundred passes, I must hit that now! Since that day, I try to be at the heart of every move.”

 

The Frenchman may not have made the same spectacular start to this season as last, when Newcastle went unbeaten for the first 12 Premier League games, but he has become a key player for club and country, and in double-quick time. Before France ended Spain’s 24-match winning run in qualifying matches (which goes back to September 2007) on Tuesday night, Spain boss Vicente del Bosque compared Cabaye to his own midfield metronome, Xavi. “That kind of thing gives me confidence but I know I have a long way to go,” Cabaye responded.

 

Cabaye was one of France’s few players to emerge from Euro 2012 with any credit; with Laurent Blanc trying to emulate Spain’s style of play (until he forgot all his principles when Spain were the opposition), Cabaye was often described as the Xavi of Les Bleus.

 

“For me, Xavi is the best player in the world,” Cabaye told L’Equipe. “Whenever there is a Barcelona match, I watch it, to learn, try to get closer to his level, even though I know it’s impossible. But I can try. He always keeps the ball. He is always on the move, always finds good space. He always makes the pass that can take out three players.”

 

As a youth player at Lille, Cabaye was taught the importance of ball retention while players were encouraged to keep moving, but it was only when Rudi Garcia replaced Claude Puel as first-team coach that the ethos affected Cabaye as a professional. Garcia wanted his team to build from the back, and in Mickael Landreau had a goalkeeper who was excellent with his feet and would start moves himself. “If you run to move, and not to chase the ball, that’s less tiring,” said Cabaye. “But just chasing and harrying, that’s not my game.”

 

Newcastle coach Alan Pardew knew it too, and when Cabaye arrived in the North-East, a region he has described as being similar to Lille, at least in terms of architecture, mentality and weather, if not local dialect, his integration was helped because of Newcastle’s style of play. Not that he found it easy: he remembers gasping for breath during his debut against Arsenal, and looking at the clock thinking the game was almost over when it still had 20 minutes to go.

 

He worked hard with a personal trainer, Fabien Richard, to build up his physical strength to cope with the English game. Richard helped him at Lille as well, even though the French club never knew about him. Nor do Newcastle for that matter, but given that Cabaye has played over 30 league games for each of the last five seasons, it’s unlikely they will mind. After all, he does not get injured often (which is more than can be said for his France team-mate Abou Diaby).

 

This weekend, Cabaye will start for Newcastle in the Wear-Tyne derby against Sunderland. It’s the fixture that kick-started last season’s terrific run: in Week Two, Newcastle won 1-0 at the Stadium of Light and went from strength to strength, while Sunderland never recovered.

 

The return match, last March, was a 1-1 draw and it was memorable for a rare moment in which Cabaye lost his temper. He clashed with Sunderland defender Phil Bardsley in the build-up to Ryan Taylor’s goal back in August, and realized it was not forgotten when, before kick-off, the two players saw each other. “He shook my hand very strongly and gave me a long look,” Cabaye said. “He made it clear he had not forgotten. I thought: ‘Okay,’ and in my first challenge with him, I went in hard and I got a yellow card. I know it was not right – but it’s the kind of thing that makes me grow up.”

 

He says he is more mature now, giving as an example his ability to switch off to speculation about his future. When he was younger, and Bordeaux wanted him, it affected his game; but talk that Manchester United were thinking about him over the summer had no impact. Instead he took a long holiday after Euro 2012, and focused on his pre-season.

 

He has only won 19 caps for France but already feels like a senior player; and the same is true at Newcastle. In his second season, Cabaye, still only 26, is a leader of the team (especially in the absence of the injured Fabricio Coloccini and Steven Taylor). The player who just helped break Spanish hearts will have two initial targets for Sunday: to keep his temper in check, and make 100 passes. The rest should then follow.