Best home performance

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In my opinion, this was the best performance at home this season. We got beat by the better team and held our own against the champions. We where poor against Blackburn and Wigan but yesterday we competed. Man Utd where not lacklustre. That is just an excuse the pundits make when the big teams are matched by the smaller teams. All we needed was that bit of luck and obviously it wasn't to be. We put in a better performance than Man City who where pegged back in their half for the whole game against United yet they got their bit of luck whereas we didn't.

I heard things like Utd had average players from Tony Marsh or Anichebe's a poor man's Marcus Bent from Dutch. What? Get a grip lads. Tony, are Van der sar, Ferdinand, Vidic, Scholes, Tevez and Giggs average players? No they are not and if they are, our team are amateurs. Dutch, what is your problem with kids? First you didn't want Vaughan because he is injured and now Anichebe is a poor man's Marcus Bent. Anichebe is 19 years old and developing all he time as a player. He is not going to be the best player in the world but 6 goals in 10 games is a good record so far. Does he get the blame for playing for 15 minutes.

It was the first time in a long time I was not downhearted about a loss. I was quite pleased with what I saw especially from some of the new players: Baines: The boy looks quality. He has marked three difficult players out the game in Bentley, Diouf and now Ronaldo as well as contributing well going forward. Future England left back in my opinion. Jagielka: Some of his passing was wayward but he looks a lot better than Neville and Carsley. His pace, energy, strength, tackling and aerial ability are going to be very useful until Cahill returns. Yakubu: He has been unfairly critisised. I wasn't sure what to expect when we first signed him but he has proved me wrong. He is a handful and showed some neat footwork. Unfairly treated by the biased referee. Wessels: He didn't have much to do but he looked calm and confident in everything he had to do. Looks an able deputy for Howard who will also push him. Pienaar: He looked a bit rash in the challenge but when he got the ball he actually looked like he was trying to make things happen. As people have said he tried to do too much at times but I would rather have that than him be completely anonymous. He should start ahead of the innefective Osman. The football wasn't even that bad. In parts we played some decent stuff yet the final ball was lacking, as it was for Man ud. Both defenses where tight. Yobo and Lescott where solid as where Vidic and Ferdinand. Whilst they where solid it's not like Yak and AJ where innefective like some people seem to think. A little quote from Alex Ferguson:

"Johnson and Yakubu are a real handful and it is not going to be easy for anyone coming here so it's great for us to get the three points."

That is eactly what I seen. They held there own against two good centre halfs. The critisism levelled at Johnson is unfair. How many chance did he have? I seen one and he was unlucky that Scholes who shouldn't have been on the pitch cleared it of the line. You have to create chances for strikers and we did not do that.

That is the only fault I would say about yesterdays game. The final ball was missing. Hopefully Gravesen can offer us that. The likes of Hibbert get blamed yet Arteta is untouchable. I am not Hibbert's biggest fan by any means but he was solid and used the ball reasonably well whereas Arteta was again anomynous against one of the big four.
Connor  Rohrer, Toxteth, Liverpool     Posted 16/09/2007 at 15:25:24

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