Spot on, we play our best football when 4-4-2 as has been proved against Man City/Chelsea and many more occasions. We simply dont have the players that are good enough to play 4-5-1 and get a result yet Brown still plays it

you simply dont have the players that are good enough to play full stop

I don't think there was anything wrong with Hull's formation, it's the players. They are just dumb lower league standard players. Whenever Baines, Neville, Jagielka or Distin got the ball they had a choice between Arteta, Heitinga and Yakubu all the time. Hull just didn't get close enough.

Defending in football is generally a choice between man marking and zonal marking. Hull were doing neither, they were getting 10 men behind the ball, but leaving Arteta completely unmarked.

If you are playing against Everton you man mark Arteta, you man mark Pienaar and you push up to stop Baines getting down the wing. Hull sat deep and ignored Everton's dangermen.

You will also find that gun crime has risen as the popularity of Buckaroo has fallen.

How many international caps has the world class midfielder got?

I think Klasnic is a smashing player. Would love to see him and CY Lee at City. Lee is my favourite non-City player at the moment. I like watching him play. Genuinely clever and skillful footballer.

Quote ="mutt1" Oh and speaking of the tubby peice of lard Johnson www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... d-fan.html'" More than one of your players have been arrested for sexual assault in the past. Probably a higher proportion than any other club... Quote ="ash4hullfc"Please, please, please tell me you didn't write that you'd pick Nicky Shorey ahead of Leighton Baines? I'm positive you didn't write that, it surely can't be right. If it is, I'll have whatever you've been taking.'" Based on composure in international games, then I would. Baines looked like a little boy lost against the mighty Egyptian team. Could you imagine Maicon running at him full-pelt? Scary thought

Quote ="mutt1" Oh and speaking of the tubby peice of lard Johnson www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... d-fan.html'" More than one of your players have been arrested for sexual assault in the past. Probably a higher proportion than any other club... Quote ="ash4hullfc"Please, please, please tell me you didn't write that you'd pick Nicky Shorey ahead of Leighton Baines? I'm positive you didn't write that, it surely can't be right. If it is, I'll have whatever you've been taking.'" Based on composure in international games, then I would. Baines looked like a little boy lost against the mighty Egyptian team. Could you imagine Maicon running at him full-pelt? Scary thought

ah the destitute mans xabi alonso...............

Remind me who Alonso plays for? Arteta is better than any Liverpool midfielder bar Stevie G. Care to answer back to that?

Lucas> Arteta

I think we've been linked with Lee too. He's a class player.



United > England.

It was a class goal by Scholes. Even at 35, his feet are so quick. The defence were made to look like statues because they didn't have a clue what he was doing. 100 goals for the ginger maestro now too.

It was an excellent goal.

I like how LGJM forgot about United's numerous chances in the 2nd half. Diouf missed 2 sitters on his own.

FFS the defender should have cleared the ball in the first place. His feet were so slow he never even kicked at the ball, he just let the ball hit his feet and diverted it to Scholes. He then fell over like a newly crippled person attempting their first steps in physiotherapy.

No problem whatsoever with the goal from a MU/PS perspective. He took the goal well, controlled the ball, didn't panic, moved in to space and prodcued a good finish. But from a defensive POV that was a pathetic goal. There was nothing special about the cross and it should have been cleared to the half way line. There was nothing exceptional from Scoles's footwork, it was simply awful defending to allow him to time and space 8 yards from goal to calmly finish.



I was venting over the Vokes miss when someone else asked if the top 3 were on the same points. I then went into more detail over the nature of Scoles's goal and Vokes's miss. I wasn't doing an in-depth match report.

I suppose Vokes's miss was really down to van der Sar's Jedi mind tricks?

eeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmm how about the current captain of argentina for one, then there is yossi benayoun for two

behave yourself, lucas isn't even better than lucas.

Notice the

Scored an own goal at the weekend but showing his class in La Liga week in week out. How's Aquilani going?

Warming the bench nicely ATM

certainly did, how i wish we still had xabi, but aquillani will more than fill the gap (when rafa realises he's better than lucas)

xabi has an abundance of class and will shine where ever he plays, aquillani is also pure class but for some unfathomable reason rafa keeps playing lucas instead. aquillani and masch would be brilliant in the middle for us.

I've got no problem with your analysis of Wolves' defending of the cross, I was just simply stating, as far as Scholes' technique to get the ball controlled then round the defender, before hitting a nice finish was class.



That really was an awful miss. It was awful defending too to leave him free. There were a couple of other times when Vokes had the chance to score but fluffed it.

I don't know which was the worse miss of the game, Vokes' effort or Diouf's starfished headed effort when he faced an open goal. At least Vokes had VDS in his way.

Correct.

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Hasnt Benitez effectively written off Aquilani for this season? Didnt he say something to the effect that Aquilai needs 3 or 4 consecutive starts to get up to speed but Liverpool cant afford to give him 3 or 4 starts at this stage of the season?