I never saw the Rio incident.

Lucas isn't as bad as people make out. He was originally a Stevie G type of player but he has had to resort to a more defensive approach. He is good when our game plan is to shut down the opposition early.

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Bags of potential, but 9 times out of 10 comes away with nothing. Head is constantly down, not looking for a pass but just to run at defenders!

babel was outstanding last night, his movement was superb and he was the perfect foil for el ninho, but the entral midfield was the outstanding area, aquilani was at times sublime and his partnership with masch was certainly a throw back to last season when xabi controlled the game. another massive plus from last night was maxi, he was brilliant and is just what we have been wanting for a long time, a skillful wide player who will take on the oppsition full back.

Babel frustrates me when he has his head down, he needs to be looking up aswell as skinning defenders. Look how often Torres has his head down when making a break. Very rarely.

Aquilani was superb, controlled the game, picked out some neat passes and looked almost worth 3/4s of what we paid for him.

Problem area for us: We [uneed[/u a corner taker. 99% of Stevie's crosses didn't beat the front post!

Seriously? What's happened to his pin point crosses?

Aye, they've been wasteful of late. He's pretty decent when he's down the flank and he's crossing but from a dead ball situation, they just dont beat the front post!

Rio elbowed Craig Fagan and still got a three game ban.

Surely if the FA ban the Ingerland captain, they've got to show consistency and ban the DJ-bashing tw*t too.

Does he try whip it in? He should just stick a little Gary Mac dink in there.

I used to love watch Gary Mac taking corners & freekicks, he used to float them in. Stevie tries to send them in with whip and pace. It doesn't work.

With Sunday in mind here's to 20 more years!

May seem a strange suggestion, but I remember last year in the league cup when we got battered by Spurs, Babel was taking the corners from the left and he actually took them well. He was fizzing them in at a good height right in the danger area, I think we scored from a set piece that game and came close from a few others.

In all honesty, we don't attack set pieces very well anyway, if it's not Torres at the near post then we generally don't score from them IMO. It's an aspect of Rafa's management I thought he'd have us well improved at, but we generally don't attack the ball very well and when we do it usually ends up in the stand. Gerrard isn't good at set pieces, but the team don't attack them very well, either.

edited for accuracy.

Vidic is 7/1 to score anytime, or 22/1 to score last. He [iWILL[/i make up for the past three games!

Or more likely he'll e himself again at the mere presence of Torres.

True, then laugh his head off at the end of the season after another succesful season whilst Torres is left playing french pub teams on a thursday night and making sure his highlights are in order.

gather you didn't go to old trafford last season then? when nando left vidic looking very much the pub player, 16 goals in 17 starts this season............

What does he get for that?

So he's nearly good enough to lace Waynes Boots

I agreed with him brightspark. I was actually at OT last season as I will be sunday. Will you?

Latest trophy count.

Michael Owen 1
Fernando Torres 0

Nuff said.

The fact that Gerrard got away with his attack on Brown, and face no further action, is further proof that the FA is bent.

It's obvious who the FA want to finish in a top 4 position.

Torres got a winners medal in the Euros, while Owen is not good enough for England. Unless you are, of course, referring to this year only.

Yep.

Bent ba*tards. Don't know what you, me or anyone else expected really, we all know the FA are utterly useless.

The FA have always been bent in one way or another.

Club level whilst at their current clubs sir. if I included all of Owens medals he'd pee allover Nando.