Its painful to watch soccer
Congrats to Liverpool on their brilliant display, if you haven't known yet, they beat Liverpool 2-0 thanks to goals from Ngog and Torress.
However, I feel that Manchester United were simply outplayed yesterday. Their midfield was bolstered by Lucas of all people, and Masch. And Rooney was totally absent. I didn't want Rooney to start actually, I think he is overrated. Would have preferred Owen! and was waiting for him to score an Anfield. But it was not to be. I thought SAF would sub out Rooney instead of Berbatov , as I thought Berbatov was performing well, much better than Rooney. Anyway I would prefer players with class over tenacity anytime. It makes me think that maybe SAF might be showing abit of favouritism towards Rooney sometimes, and does not want him to release a temper, which he will do, if hes subbed out, even if its for the better of the team. I know hes a fighter but sometimes tactics deem a change of style and he should be the one sacrificed.
Anyway, back to my title, its painful to watch soccer. Because Arsenal DRAWED with West Ham, when they were leading by 2 goals! and those 2 goals were rather soft and based on mistakes by the keeper. However, our keeper decided to make a mistake and then our DM decided to make a rash foul which resulted in a penalty. Its sad, at 2-0 up we were suppose to be cruising but alas, the players decided to switch off and relac one corner instead of killing the game off, which did result in this. Anyway Vito is a great keeper I must say just that he lacks experience, the players should know this and hence they should kill the game off so that his mistake wouldn't have made a difference.
Anyway I feel for Vito, for all critics out there, I must say its difficult to play as keeper, as I have experience, its easy to comment that O he should have palmed the ball the other way, but in the game atmosphere, sometimes you know you have to palm it out, but it requires a split second decision, and sometimes maybe you intended to palm it out but it went the other way as you misjudged the speed and power of the ball. So, its really the hardest position to be a goalkeeper, all keepers make mistakes, its just the fact that their mistakes result in goals which is why they get alot of heat sometimes. But I still think Vito can become a great keeper! Lets not forget how he performed against Fulham!
Regards,
Daniel Foo
However, I feel that Manchester United were simply outplayed yesterday. Their midfield was bolstered by Lucas of all people, and Masch. And Rooney was totally absent. I didn't want Rooney to start actually, I think he is overrated. Would have preferred Owen! and was waiting for him to score an Anfield. But it was not to be. I thought SAF would sub out Rooney instead of Berbatov , as I thought Berbatov was performing well, much better than Rooney. Anyway I would prefer players with class over tenacity anytime. It makes me think that maybe SAF might be showing abit of favouritism towards Rooney sometimes, and does not want him to release a temper, which he will do, if hes subbed out, even if its for the better of the team. I know hes a fighter but sometimes tactics deem a change of style and he should be the one sacrificed.
Anyway, back to my title, its painful to watch soccer. Because Arsenal DRAWED with West Ham, when they were leading by 2 goals! and those 2 goals were rather soft and based on mistakes by the keeper. However, our keeper decided to make a mistake and then our DM decided to make a rash foul which resulted in a penalty. Its sad, at 2-0 up we were suppose to be cruising but alas, the players decided to switch off and relac one corner instead of killing the game off, which did result in this. Anyway Vito is a great keeper I must say just that he lacks experience, the players should know this and hence they should kill the game off so that his mistake wouldn't have made a difference.
Anyway I feel for Vito, for all critics out there, I must say its difficult to play as keeper, as I have experience, its easy to comment that O he should have palmed the ball the other way, but in the game atmosphere, sometimes you know you have to palm it out, but it requires a split second decision, and sometimes maybe you intended to palm it out but it went the other way as you misjudged the speed and power of the ball. So, its really the hardest position to be a goalkeeper, all keepers make mistakes, its just the fact that their mistakes result in goals which is why they get alot of heat sometimes. But I still think Vito can become a great keeper! Lets not forget how he performed against Fulham!
Regards,
Daniel Foo
posted by Daniel Foo at 2:12 PM
2 Comments:
I agree, goalkeeper is a hard position to play.
I love the independence and solitary nature of goal tending too!
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