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Luck and luck are 2 different things... One type of luck is in lottery, the other type of luck is when you make it happen. Many players shoot in congested penalty areas hoping for a lucky deflection, especially in set pieces... and often it works. You can't have luck if you don't try. So yeah, they had it, but it wouldn't have happened if Young hadn't tried to do anything.

He probably wants an early goal in the season to put off pressure... if he doesn't have one in a while, then he could lose it again I'm afraid... hopefully not and he will score. He can smell that first 4 games are perfect to do that

Lampard played smart, his delivery was poor, but he had the right things in his mind. I liked that he played directly upfield when having drawn opposition on them... it was clearly AVB's instruction to provoke the opposition and then play a direct ball up front once they have more room (like he said in his interview about playing against ultra-low block, which Stoke were). In last season we would have passed it back and played ourselves into stale position until the only option was to hoof one long. Unfortunately we didn't do that enough and Lamps seemed the be the only one who at least tried (in 1st half).

Why are you putting Piazon in the mix? He might lift the reserves or the U18 squad, but no way is he going to be a first team player at just 18 and not having played a single game for Sao Paulo. I think he's hardly going to influence our title bid.

AVB squatting again... I wonder if it does have some purpose or if he's just lazy to stand straight

It was not bad at all, there were positives in the game as well as negatives... you learn from both of those and develop further. I'm watching WBA - Man Utd. now and I can't wait to see our players getting so much space which they never got at Britannia.

This game will be much different than against Stoke, we'll probably get more room and more goals. Hopefully by that game we'll have new winger(s).

yeah, that's Eva Carneiro

What a hard game it was, one of the toughest away games in the league... In the second half Stoke were playing for the 0-0 draw, and they got it.. disappointed that we had no real antidote to their parked bus, but few teams have. At least we got a point.

About time Kalou came off.. now we have 3 strikers on field, 2 playing as "wingers"... this team is screaming for wide men!

http://myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=124358∂=sports Bloodzeed Sop [EN]... works like a charm, good quality too

When is Kalou coming to come off... come on!

Nice dive from Torres, but the one on Lamps was 100% penalty... fuckin stupid ref

Let's sign Barton and Balotelli, the Ba-Ba duo... I wonder if AVB will turn out a paranoid schizophrenic at the end of the season. Hell, let's throw Gattuso in there aswell.

Kalou and Malouda were so poor, Kalou was totally lost.. and I still remember Malouda's awful cross. At one point Malouda and Kalou were playing next to Lampard, shows how central they are ffs. Torres, Ramires, Alex and Čech have been our best players in the first half... But we all know we are a 2nd half team, so things might just change, hopefully. The sooner Kalou gets subbed out, the better.

I have developed pretty strong skepticism towards journos, so are you sure this interview is legit? If it is, then it was very promising stuff.. especially saying Josh is in his future plans and won't sign anybody on his expense

Both are very good reads. Thank you. His tactical analyses were interesting, I guess we will see our defensive mids playing more direct game... he's right, up until now they did pass only horisontally. And the opposition provoking, positioning and movement are important too, that's why I have always considered having intelligent players as a major plus for a team... not just one or two, but to be smart collectively and understand what they are doing and to have a purpose in what they are doing.. Some teams are just clueless, and it showed on us too last season at certain periods. But that kind of understanding comes only with time, stability, patience and lots of hard work.

you're right... he really took his chances in pre-season, and it has rewarded him. I have a feeling AVB's hand was involved in changing their minds.

chelsea insider my ass

http://www.footballtube.com/Videos.aspx?movieId=926 Premier League 2011/2012 Preview

Nothing concrete, the same general blabber as always... but he said they had made a bid for Modric and that Levy rejected it, and that they are still thinking if to make another offer or not.

very interesting... thanks. and he said that AVB told them areas in the team that he would like to improve... so that shows he isn't 100% satisfied with current quality.

that's because Arsenal suck... he'll have no real run of games until Cole is fit and ahead of him

I thought his release clause was 22 mill. £? Is that roughly the same as 30 mill. €, no?

let's all go a step further and start taking wikipedia as an actual source