The Professor wrote:Milan
This Milan side is a disgrace to the great Milan sides of the past, not only for being quite average, but for being one of the most cuntish sides you'd ever see. I found myself wanting Spurs to absolutely rape them at one point in the 2nd half.
I had this down as one of the matches of the round, but it was quite disappointing to be honest. But that's what u get when two teams pack their midfield with runners instead of footballers - it takes a life time to get the ball forward.
I understand TS' criticism of crouch, but he's quite useful in games like this(with no football in midfield). He makes it easier for them to play. But when there's so much football in the team, then it's quite a waste to play him often. You have to give it to the big man though, he bangs them in in the CL and at international level.
To be fair, that was not even our 3rd string central midfield. I was actually surprised how cohesive the football we played in the first half was, given we had two artisans as opposed to artists in the centre. It fell away in the second half after VDV went off (he dropped back a lot in the first to play a lot of short passed between Sandro/Palacios), and for them Pato made an enormous difference I thought.
People are talking about Ibra as being a failure again, but for me I was very unimpressed with Robinho. Unlike Ibra, who isn't blessed with pace so cannot be blamed if service to him is poor, as it was tonight, a player with that much natural talent being so utterly average is a Greek Tragedy. If Robinho had even a toenail's worth of Messi'a character/drive, he might just go a little way to matching his own inflated opinion of himself with actual performances when it matters