Ollie 4,400 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Torres wasn't that bad, just some final passes let him down, most notably Ivanovic near the end and a couple of shit ref decisions, 1 of which should've been a penalty and of course an effort off the line. I think he looks alright, the worst player again was Mikel, i dunno what's going on with him. He finished last season so well but is now what he used to be. Very lax on the ball, not commanding enough and keeps giving the ball away or going back all the time. He just walks through games doing sweet fuck all. I'm happy tho, it was a pretty comfortable win in a potential tricky game. We scored 2 early goals and strolled through it with minimal fuss, keeping a clean sheet and that's good for our match on Wednesday. Bit of confidence restored and not much energy consumed. Also in a weekend where Arsenal drew, City struggled, Liverpool and Tottenham lost and Man Utd have a potentially hard game tomorrow, a win for us was huge, really, really big win already. Whenever our rivals falter, we need to take advantage and today we have. Also nice to see Oscar get on and Hazard get MOTM, shutting many idiots up in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Lamps 11,692 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Lamps man of the match, above all doubts once again, cunning penalty, initiated both goals and countless attacks. Defensively worked for two as mikel went missing several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran. 6,317 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 You managed to put this up without internet? I'm at my school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutcho 8,443 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 its between Terry and Hazard for me... Great start for hazard though he only played 60 mins... Think hazard probably deserves it for the great start he gave us or helped give us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutcho 8,443 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 He was also getting battered by thier centre-backs without much help from the ref otherwise we should have won a few more free kicks and they should have been booked earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPetrCechx 13,571 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 1.EDEN2. TERRY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James 5,324 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Sorry this wasn't up sooner - I just moved into a new house and I don't have internet yet.Not to worry mate, ive moved all the posts after FT to this topic anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheva. 5,373 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Torres was average, not bad. He did look uninterested (same as the game in midweek against Puerto Rico) but should have gotten a pen (stupid ref) and also had an effort cleared off the line - if he went down then that could have been another pen.Speaking of the ref, he was fucking annoying. I really hate it when referees are not consistent, he booked Luiz for his first foul, but allowed another player to commit 4 fouls before showing yellow. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Lamps 11,692 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 our match on Wednesday. Bit of confidence restored and not much energy consumed. Also in a weekend where Arsenal drew, City struggled, Liverpool and Tottenham lost and Man Utd have a potentially hard game tomorrow, a win for us was huge, really, really big win already.Whenever our rivals falter, we need to take advantage and today we have. Also nice to see Oscar get on and Hazard get MOTM, shutting many idiots up in the process.+1. It's actually Tuesday, only about 52h after today's game, which makes it even more crucial that we could stroll out today without picking any injuries or even tiring. After the goals it was a training session. u can smash our performance or claim it as Wigans achievement, that we were rather defensive (as martinez did) but u cant play down the fact that we got an extremley busy August in which any respite is appreciated. I think RDM put everything spot-on today.3rd place is probably the most realistic outcome in terms of Squad Strength. The title might remain in Manchester but we will regain our rightful place as London's no.1 team. IMO we will have less problems with the smaller teams in the league cos we our problem against them was our "pedestrian" style . With our 4 100% creative players, we should be able to unlock their defenses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rising Sun 711 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Firstly, good to have 3 points in the premier league opener.And secondly, with all due respect to all Mikel lovers,SELL HIM. He is a liability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPetrCechx 13,571 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Firstly, good to have 3 points and a clean sheet in the premier league opener.And secondly, with all due respect to all Mikel lovers,SELL HIM. He is a liability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diskoviolente 425 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Three points won, at a tricky place to go, a partly very good display and lots of positive signs of the attacking movement.Few defensive liabilities, few individual mistakes.Still no need to hate like some do on here. Unbelieveable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolayes 14,489 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 avoided the forum till now ...notice still a lot of negative points...so my view of the weekend.EXCELLENT result for us ,,,a win and a clean sheet at a difficult place to play. City ,,,scraped home at home with 2 late goals against promoted club.Arse scoreless home draw.Spurs 2 1 defeatLiverpool ,,, humiliation all in all a satisfactory first weekend.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wavy Crockett 190 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 is RDM actually "very pleased" with the performance or is that your run of the mill results oriented post match interview clichébecause otherwise it's a bit worrying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rising Sun 711 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Happy with the 3 points, but sadly....We were everything we want to be in the first 5 minutes,And then we were everything we dont want to be for the next 85....really dont know what to think about this performance. Will wait till our reading game to form a stronger opinion on where we are going, whether we will be the "playing good in spells:", then back to defending and soaking pressure or do we have the desire to bomb on. This was a wierd game. We could have had so much more if we really went for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 4,400 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 +1. It's actually Tuesday, only about 52h after today's game, which makes it even more crucial that we could stroll out today without picking any injuries or even tiring. After the goals it was a training session. u can smash our performance or claim it as Wigans achievement, that we were rather defensive (as martinez did) but u cant play down the fact that we got an extremley busy August in which any respite is appreciated. I think RDM put everything spot-on today.3rd place is probably the most realistic outcome in terms of Squad Strength. The title might remain in Manchester but we will regain our rightful place as London's no.1 team. IMO we will have less problems with the smaller teams in the league cos we our problem against them was our "pedestrian" style . With our 4 100% creative players, we should be able to unlock their defenses.We play on Wednesday for sure, 7:45 KO so we have plenty of time, especially having the early KO today. I'll be happy with 3rd place but i still really want us to win the league of course. If we get another striker, Hulk or Cavani, we can win the league. Utd having Rooney and Van Persie doesn't necessarily mean they are gonna work together amazingly tho, we thought Drogba and Torres would be the best strike force ever and that didn't work. Well, we didn't use 4-4-2 enough even tho both Manchester sides seem to know how to use it well. We need Torres to have a great season to challenge for the league. If not, we'll battle 3rd-6th again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Considering this was a potential banana skin, i fail to see how anyone can be unhappy with a routine 2-0 win at the DW.Yes it may not have been the greatest performance, but isn't playing crap and winning suppose to be the sign of a great team? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPetrCechx 13,571 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Aguero can be out for at least half a year after he suffered Torn cruciate ligament in the knee.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinol 337 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Some people says that we played bad today but bad compered to what? Compared to our pre season? Compared to our last season? If you compare todays game to our pre season games we played like gods!!! Im pleased with this preformance but we need to get better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolayes 14,489 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Considering this was a potential banana skin, i fail to see how anyone can be unhappy with a routine 2-0 win at the DW.Yes it may not have been the greatest performance, but isn't playing crap and winning suppose to be the sign of a great team?agree but not about us playing crap ... We got a flying start then held our lead . Jose would have been proud of it.In the second half we had almost complete control ....Hazard was superb and Oscar looks even better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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