We need a midfield general. I've seen Prutton play well, and I know Carole
an pass. But without some solidity and calmness in the middle, we crumple
ike a Lada in a shunt with a Transit van...
Kishishev can't recover fast enough, as far as I'm concerned.
Cheers!
Sean
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From: Richard Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 4:47 am
Subject: [LU] Bournemouth
Last night was a bit like the Forest game - we played pretty badly, but the
esult looks good on paper. Kandol's early goal gave us a lot of hope - even
hough their keeper probably should have held onto the initial shot - but
or the next hour, we were woeful. The bloke in front of me must have said
SECOND BALL!" about 150 times during the match. And he had a point. We were
nocking a lot of balls down for... Bournemouth. Our passing was poor, and
ven though Tres and Becks were winning most of the "'Arry Bassett" balls
unted forward, they never came to a white shirt.
The equaliser was well deserved - their left winger had tormented Fraser
who had a poor game, but not as bad as Prutton - he just looked lost for
ost of the match) and their strike when it came was pretty good. There
eemed to be little communication on the pitch. We defended way too deep and
idfield just went missing far too often. Worse, if you defend deep, you at
east expect to be winning balls and denying the opposition space around
our own box, but too often last night it was "after you", "no, after you" -
r, as the terrific commentator behind me put it, "What the f*** are you
ooking at Heath for, he's not looking at you!"
So we started to edge back in near the hour mark, with Seb's cracker coming
gainst the run of play. They had a man sent off about ten minutes after
hat (retaliation - which is understandable: they're outplaying the
avourites in the league after their own terrible run, yet they're still
etting beaten), but until Tres's late goal you'd have thought it was us
own to ten men. How many more times are we going to get a let-off?
Crowd was good - someone said 1,500, but since at least half of us were in
he uncovered South stand (made of scaffolding a la Priestfield) sometimes
t was hard to hear our own songs. I'd say the front two did as much as they
ould with no support from midfield; Rui Marques is worth about £3m to a
remier League side so we'll probably have to sell him (although last night
asn't his best of the season); Douglas and Prutton looked drugged;
ichardson was confused (which is sad: at my last game - Portsmouth - he and
rutton seemed to work so well together); Carole was outstanding on the run
nd shooting, but barely found a pass all night. Hughes and Heath were
aboured at best and shite at worst; Clapham - dunno, really, which says a
ot.
Da Costa came on, fell over, did that Iberian thing of spreading your arms
ut wide while you're still on the ground. So he can pout like Ronaldo...
ut can he play like him?
Three problems: we defended way too deep. Our midfield disappeared into the
efence without apparently making it any more effective. And we played a
andalf ("You shall not pass!").
We need a midfield general. I've seen Prutton play well, and I know Carole
an pass. But without some solidity and calmness in the middle, we crumple
ike a Lada in a shunt with a Transit van...
--
ichard Young
reelance writer and editor
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