MOTD 16/12

woo hoo!

POW! Taylor!

Can't see Arsenal coming back from this.

best comeback ever

was Liverpool vs Milan in the Champions League final 2005

You call that a fucking assist?

James' barnet

Woo! Not last!

Krimbo wrote:You call that a fucking assist?

thats what i was thinking, a miss kick by Walcott = assist

Free lesson in how to play football coming up.......

WHAT A GOAL!

Why do people call our defence the worst in the league when there's shite like Charlton about???

Soccertainment!

The highlights really do tell the story, it wouldn't suprise me if we had 80% possesion. Our finishing was woeful, albeit we created about 20 half chances. It should have been 4-0 at half time, I was sure Charlton would snatch an equilizer.

Les Reed is such a dick, he doesn't stand a chance - the media hate him and that's half the battle when you're a manager.

I'm going to scream if Hansen or Shearer put that win down to Gerrard in the centre, I swear.

Glenn Hysléigh wrote:Soccertainment!

The highlights really do tell the story, it wouldn't suprise me if we had 80% possesion. Our finishing was woeful, albeit we created about 20 half chances. It should have been 4-0 at half time, I was sure Charlton would snatch an equilizer.

57% according to skysports.

Krimbo wrote:
57% according to skysports.

well at least 25% must have been no one in possesion them, because the only times Charlton had the ball was when they were taking the goal kick resulting from one of our missed chances

WHAT A GOAL!

Glenn, do you have an itch somewhere?

wow martins is doing pretty well, i'm surprised.

holly hunter wrote:Glenn, do you have an itch somewhere?

an itch?

no, I do have a nasty rash, but I have some very soothing cream for it.

I still don't understand why Bouazza's goal stood, it was obviously a foul on Given. I wouldn't have been happy if it cost us points.

Krimbo wrote:I still don't understand why Bouazza's goal stood, it was obviously a foul on Given. I wouldn't have been happy if it cost us points.

I've seen the goal almost twice and I can't say I saw much wrong with it, a scorcher - no defence in the world could have coped with it.

What was the Taylor goal like? worth watching?

Tinseldum wrote:What was the Taylor goal like? worth watching?

Really good goal, although I haven't seen it on tv. We didn't clear a ball on the edge of our box and he volleyed it on the bounce from the edge of the box into the far corner. Another very well taken goal. Adebayor's goal was also a good team goal from our game today.

Glenn Hysléigh wrote:

Krimbo wrote:I still don't understand why Bouazza's goal stood, it was obviously a foul on Given. I wouldn't have been happy if it cost us points.

I've seen the goal almost twice and I can't say I saw much wrong with it, a scorcher - no defence in the world could have coped with it.

There wasn't a thing wrong with it, other than the pathetic keeping from Given.

He cocked up a punch at one of the corners aswell. Maybe it was just that Newcastle were poor at set pieces and Watford are good at them

Snowbispo wrote:I'm going to scream if Hansen or Shearer put that win down to Gerrard in the centre, I swear.

Its fortunate you didnt watch the highliughts sessions on sky then.

KevintheRednoseReindeer wrote:

Snowbispo wrote:I'm going to scream if Hansen or Shearer put that win down to Gerrard in the centre, I swear.

Its fortunate you didnt watch the highliughts sessions on sky then.

I saw that this morning... Clare "should be in the kitchen" Tomlinson and John Solako

"Steven Gerrard totally dominated, didn't he?"
"Well that's what you get when he plays in the centre".

Xabi Alonso, I swear, must be the most underappreciated midfielder in the big 4. He just can't get credit when he's in the same team as Gerrard

Charlton really are shocking though. Worse team I've seen in the premiership.

Ratings from this morning's NOTW:

Alonso 7
Gerrard 9

Fair reflection obi? I didn't watch the game (only saw the highlights, which are nothing to go by really), but I assume it's more like the other way round.

Gerrard took his goal well, but the Charlton defence seemed happy to give him 5 yards of space to initially mess up, and then shoot.

Snowbispo wrote:

KevintheRednoseReindeer wrote:

Snowbispo wrote:I'm going to scream if Hansen or Shearer put that win down to Gerrard in the centre, I swear.

Its fortunate you didnt watch the highliughts sessions on sky then.

I saw that this morning... Clare "should be in the kitchen" Tomlinson and John Solako

"Steven Gerrard totally dominated, didn't he?"
"Well that's what you get when he plays in the centre".

Xabi Alonso, I swear, must be the most underappreciated midfielder in the big 4. He just can't get credit when he's in the same team as Gerrard

Charlton really are shocking though. Worse team I've seen in the premiership.

If only Xabi got as much praise as Cesc does.
Also, i dont think Charlton would have created nearly as many chances against you if Gerrard wasnt in the middle. With gerrard and Xabi in the middle, any big teams will slice you apart.
Good attacking play though although i think Gerrard may be even more immune from criticism form sky sports commentators than Rooney.

'S4P' of Orient Are wrote:
Fair reflection obi? I didn't watch the game (only saw the highlights, which are nothing to go by really), but I assume it's more like the other way round.

That would be spot on.

Gerrard took his goal well, but the Charlton defence seemed happy to give him 5 yards of space to initially mess up, and then shoot.

Agreed. I thought the finish was excellent but the 'goal' - ie everything leading up to it - was very poor. Gerrard's first touch was pretty terrible given the circumstances but Charlton were absolutely shocking. I can't put into words how poor they were.


Kev,

I agree with you that against the top teams he and Xabi won't work on their own but I don't think any of Charlton's chances were due to the balance in the centre yesterday. More down to the shocking play from our fullbacks.

KevintheRednoseReindeer wrote:With gerrard and Xabi in the middle, any big teams will slice you apart.

not necessarily, the pressure Gerrard puts on an opposing teams back 4 vs the burdon that Sissoko takes off our defense is a tight one to call. With pacier centre backs a Gerard/Alonso combination would work fine, but with Carra and Hyppia as our 'big game' defenders, we will miss Sissoko.