maguskwt wrote:Sabre wrote:maguskwt wrote:Sabre wrote:For the record: Sabre thinks Alonso did a poor game
And calm down people!! if we fall out today, what will happen when we draw two games!
alonso had a great game... MOM imo... gerrard on the other hand was poor even though he was trying his usual stuff it wasn't coming off again... alonso redeemed himself from the boro game... well done xabi!
No mate, MOM is Reina, who made a couple of VERY difficult saves.
He's the reason we're through alongside Kuyt's goal.
Alonso, the usual passes he does to give the game some order and sense were not right, he had to be our game director and today he wasn't. An action where he had a free kick, he decides to take it quickly to Benayoun in the left and that's not an advantage. Not his best game, despite a couple of shots.
I thought Dawson had a point about focusing on Kuy because many of our men were under their standards. Babel, until the cross didn't contribute a lot. Neither did Benayoun. Torres was much worse than he's got us used to. Keane could have done better. Fabio Aurelio was mistaken many times and didn't hear Rafa who yelled him to overlap.
well you can say that reina was MOM for his saves sabre... but i thought in the whole outfield, where almost everyone was having a poor game, xabi kept it together, the flow of the game went through him basically... I thought he was impressive with his passing and picking out players and even winning balls with some tackles, basically his positioning was almost perfect and plugging holes and distributing the ball which he is capable of... maybe because gerrard was being focused on by our opponents... but today's performance by xabi helps us remember his real qualities...
The flow of the game DID NOT go through Alonso. On more occasions than I can remember, he was a bystander with the balls being played down the flanks.
. so what if we won? im not impressed. did we need 120mins to beat a team that compared to us has no reputation? retard.
