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Cant argue with those scores Wasim. Maybe a bit high for Santon who was ok but showing more lately that he is right footed.

Guthrie (MoM), Perch, and Krul were the stars for me. Sure, Ba and Cisse got the goals and headlines, but they could have been a bit sharper (Cisse should have put away the near post header from Guthrie's chip). Krul made numerous close range stops, and Perch put himself about while still keeping it simple. But Guthrie put on a show with his creativity. I've said it before, but he's in the type of form he showed in the second half of the Championship season. I know Cabaye and Tiote are our first choice midfield, but Danny needs a new contract now, especially if we're looking at having an extended season in 2012-13.

It could be argued that Cisse had excellent delivery and a couple of good chances to score before he eventually did.

However, it was his first match in this league, his debut for us and he came on much earlier than he probably expected to.

Add to that his cracking goal, and I'm prepared to more than forgive him for snatching at a couple of chances earlier in the game.
Looks like he could be a great player for us, touch wood.

Also, I'm glad he scored when he did because you know how we are, as soon as we go ahead in a game we get nervy and try to defend the lead instead of going for the jugular, which I can never fkn understand!
So we had to defend the goal for a shorter period.

It drives me nuts but its just the way it is, we're better than that and Guthrie totally dominated the second half until we scored.
When we play offensively and are going for it, we generally dont concede too many anyway so why do we always try to hang onto a 1 goal lead??
Fair enough if we don't score another, but we should be more comfortable at home. Am I wrong??

Disagree with Cisse man of the match. Scored a belting goal but otherwise missed a couple of chances. Agree with Guthrie MOM as waffles said.

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All else aside, Guthrie's MoM for me too. Krul's the runner up.

Guthrie head and shoulders above the rest but Krul and perch have to be close runners up!

Perch has shown this is his position to play and hopefully we never have to pay him in defence again!

Bit harsh giving Jonas the same score as Obertan, jonas ran his socks off for 90mins assisted a goal, won us numerous free kicks and defended well! Obertan did better than he usually does but very little compared to Jonas!

Willo was good at clearing the ball as ever and i was slightly dissapointed with colo making 2 or 3 silly mistakes which could have cost us!

Forgot to mention Perch. Guthrie wouldn't have done as well if he didn't have a reliable partner.

I actually thought that Obertan's learning from Jonas about how to get into the team. He tracked back better than I've ever seen from him, including at ManUSA.

Probably would have given Williamson 6.5 and Colo 7.5. They switched off for the goal something awful. Keane starts running and nobody even tries to pick him up...

This is why I hate Keane.
Everyone thinks he's so super fantastic, defenders get nervous and give him FAR too much respect but that's gotta be one of the easiest goals he's ever scored.

So incredibly lucky and that stupid celebration just makes me wish I had a fully loaded bazooka at the game..

Agree about the celebration, total bellend.

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Oh yeah, that celebration was crap. A somersault? Really? Is this tumbling in grade school?

I'd be disappointed if I didn't score that goal. I don't really think it's about Keane though. Not picking up runs is the #1 mental mistake midfielders & defenders make.