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Reg wrote:Compare that ineffective performance tonight with Ure's performance against Milan.... worlds apart.

We are sh!t, because we play sh!t.

We always play down to our opponents level, we cant even overwhelm some village team from Pikeyland Romania.

Its pathetic, it really is.

You moan about the Rafa "bashers"

yet you make posts like this 

who trains them, who picks them, who enforces the tactics we play?

s@int wrote:

NANNY RED wrote:Dire game of football, thats it nothing more, im thinking though about booking for Lille i have not been there before .
Best thing about tonight was the new banner on display made from the Irish KOP lads absolutly brilliant,

If you are going to have Rafa on a banner with our great managers I think Houllier should be on there as well.

s@int wrote:

bavlondon wrote:Anyway don't know why I am moaning. We won so ill leave it at that. 

If you can't say anything good it's sometimes better to say nothing 

woof woof ! wrote:We're definitely lacking creativity and the much vaunted Aquilani is still to show why we paid so much for him. OK the Romanians put 10 men behind the ball at every opportunity but our inability to exhibit some class against a side with limited ambition was very worrying.

Some have suggested we should have gone with a straight 4-4-2 formation, I'd go further and suggest that after half an hour given romanian tactics we could comfortably have gone with 3-4-3.

No surely you stick with one rubbish striker up front against a team who park the bus. You have to be tactical genius, like Rafa, to understand that though.

It just gets worse and worse doesn't it, that was our fecking A-team out on the pitch last night and at times the Romanian team, which has just come out of a winter break, outclassed us. 

Scottbot wrote:

woof woof ! wrote:Some have suggested we should have gone with a straight 4-4-2 formation, I'd go further and suggest that after half an hour given romanian tactics we could comfortably have gone with 3-4-3.

Agree on that mate, you could see from 15 mins in that they had no intention of coming out, even when they had the ball and the opportunity to break. I didn't understand Rafa's reluctance to get more forward players on the pitch. My observations were:

- The crowd were bored shi....t...l...ess after a bright opening 10 mins.
- We struggle big time against sides that sit back and are organised. Credit to them, they were set up perfectly.
- Aquilani isn't really getting any better is he?
- Gerrard didn't have a bad game as someone said in this thread, he just isn't cut out to play off the frontman when the frontman isn't TORRES.
- Carra at RB against this lot made no sense.
- Great to see Pachecho get some minutes and the assist will do him good
- We should have got something from all those corners
- Masch's workrate was amazing again
- Babel was by far the best player on the park in just 30 mins of action. HE DESERVES TO START OUR NEXT GAME - IF YOU PLAY LIKE THAT YOU SHOULD GET A SHOT, but he won't. Back to Maxi on the left against City

I hear you Scott.



I'm really disappointed with Aquilani, I know it's early days etc etc etc, I'm not expecting him to wow us with stellar performances but for christ sake what skill has he shown so far that virtually any half decent midfielder doesn't possess ?

On the Gerrard/Torres issue. Ngog just isn't effective enough to play up top on his own. Until Torres is back I'd really like to see Rafa go with 4-4-2 it would at least give us a few more options ( it might even bring more out of Aquilani ).

Mentioned in the Babel thread that I think the fella deserves more playing time, was certainly one of our better performers last night. Whether Rafa gives him the opportunity remains to be seen.