Guest Chris P Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Only good thing about WBA was Lukaku. Very harsh. Their organisation, passing and movement put us to shame that half. If they'd taken the three points it would have been a tactically perfect away performance, and deserved. Didn't know you were a supporter Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 What? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Flukiest win ever. We really are a poor team. First bit aye, second bit is nonsense. It really isn't though, is it? Yes we have good players, but we're not a good team. Not in a collective and footballing sense anyway. West Brom's shape, passing, movement, pressing off the ball etc put us to shame today and a lot of teams in the league do the same with worse players. It's impossible to argue with this. Pardew is picking players and trying to shoehorn them into a formation when it should be the other way round. We don't have poor players. But right now, Pardew's playing them in a way that is making them a poor team. No argument there. Feel quite lucky I can enjoy this win with only the first half in mind as the second half sounded abysmal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Been out today so only heard the score, what are the major issues with the performance? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 We made 406 passes today. They made 404. We had an accuracy of 80,5%, they 80,2%. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Been out today so only heard the score, what are the major issues with the performance? Played shite second half, got lucky with a 94th minute winner that went in off Cisse's arse*. *think it was more his back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wally_McFool Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Krul 9 Simpson 4 Coloccini 5 Williamson 4 Santon 6 Cabaye 4 Jonas 4 Perch 5 HBA 6 Ba 8 Shola 5 Cisse 6, Obertan 5, Sammy 6 How the hell does Jonas deserve a 4? He was outstanding today defensively, and looked to have regained some of his old dribbling skills. Its the mentality of a lot of the posters on here. Waaaaah Jonas FFS! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 IF, a big IF, what Pardew said is genuine, I believe that the whole squad is having fitness issue and all the players are out of form. That's the only valid reasons for such a shit performance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Amazing we have only lost to Chelsea and Man Utd so far this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Just realised Ba and Cisse scored in the same game Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliottman Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 One of the worst seond half performances ive seen for a long time. We were dreadful. How we have won this game ill never know, but it certainly leaves a big smile on your face. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Right, after digesting that, my thoughts are as follows: I honestly thought we were decent enough in the first half, we deserved to be in front at half time. We played some decent stuff, it was a good mix between direct and passing along the floor imo - our directness got us the goal and thought we sufficiently controlled the game (bar West Brom's counter attacks). We needed to build on that first half and go for it in the second but unfortunately, that didn't happen. No-one really knew what they were supposed to do and you could definitely put that down to Pardew's instructions (or lack of). The midfield looked confused, the players simply didn't know which position they were meant to be holding, there was no movement - it was quite frankly a mess. Thank fuck we got that (undeserved) winner eh? Got to say though, at least we got a PL win - it has been a while. But again, we've got a lot of issues to address. Something's got to give eventually - I don't for one second believe that Pardew is a mug of a manager, he has shown in the past that he can get something right. Let's hope that he gets it spot on (or thereabouts) sooner rather than later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 cant figure out how obertan and sammy got on ahead of ferguson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuneaton Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 cant figure out how obertan and sammy got on ahead of ferguson or bigi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Jonas Olsson @J_OlssonViasat Can't believe we lost that one. Thank you and save trip back to all the fans that travelled. #WBA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooBoo Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Krul 8 Simpson 6 Santon 6 Colo 7 Williamson 6 Cabaye 4 Perch 5 Jonas 5 HBA 5 Shola 3 Ba 6 Obertan 5 Sammy 5 Cisse 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karjala Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Krul 9 Simpson 4 Coloccini 5 Williamson 4 Santon 6 Cabaye 4 Jonas 4 Perch 5 HBA 6 Ba 8 Shola 5 Cisse 6, Obertan 5, Sammy 6 How the hell does Jonas deserve a 4? He was outstanding today defensively, and looked to have regained some of his old dribbling skills. Fair enough, maybes 4 was harsh, but are you sure he was "outstanding"? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonTastic Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 IF, a big IF, what Pardew said is genuine, I believe that the whole squad is having fitness issue and all the players are out of form. That's the only valid reasons for such a s*** performance. I'm sorry we didn't look unfit our ability was in question not fitness. We played with a high line from our defence despite them getting in behind time and time again. They had to step back 5 yards to sort it out but we didn't. Players looked all over the shop not knowing where to play. Maybe they need more training time which their missing due to europe for tactics etc, but fitness is just an excuse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Krul 8 Simpson 6 Santon 6 Colo 7 Williamson 6 Cabaye 4 Perch 5 Jonas 5 HBA 5 Shola 3 Ba 6 Obertan 5 Sammy 5 Cisse 3 Perch was better than Jonas and Simpson was far worse than anyone else in the back four. You're otherwise about right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyeyzzon Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 European hangover. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliottman Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 I look at our starting line up and i see - Williamson Simpson Jonas Perch Shola 4/5 players who simply are not top 4/5 standard. No wonder we struggle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 scores Perch was better than Jonas and Simpson was far worse than anyone else in the back four. You're otherwise about right. Williamson was equally as bad as Simpson, if not worse, albeit he improved a tad when Long came on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Lukaku was brilliant, big big PL future if he leaves Chelsea permanently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hakka Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Lukaku was brilliant, big big PL future if he leaves Chelsea permanently. He looked very poor in early days for Chelsea, but this season he's been very big, very strong and showing decent technique. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Got to say thanks to Clarke, I know he does it (taking his striker off) every game but it was an absymal decision to take Lukaku off today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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