By toonboy_awaisyboy™
January 4 2005

Toonboy_awaisyboy™ gives his player ratings for the match against WBA. (Parts may have been edited for frontpage resons)

Bramble was good tonight. He won all the balls in the air (which we would have struggled if he was not playing. Great long passes that were ****ed up by the recipient. 8/10

Taylor impresses me more and more at RB. He was solid and should play CB when Carr is back. 8/10

Hughes played well (well not noticeable) albeit all the balls thrown by opposition seemed to aim for Bramble. 7/10

 

N'Zogbia is a talent. He got to the byline twice in the 2nd half and crossed to player who messed up! 7.5/10

Bowyer was rubbish. He couldn’t hit a ball or get in the game in midfield. 5/10

Dyer was the same as Bowyer except ran like a headless chicken with the ball. 5/10

Jenas was playing the holding role – and played OK. 6/10

Robert was a liability in defensive positions. He showed the ball to opponent and often had it taken from him and was totally single footed. Although, his weighted passes were good but players were offside or messed up their final decisions. 6/10

Ameobi did well for a player on his own and who has a shoulder injury. He held the ball up but had a lack of first touch by his midfielders bar N'Zogbia. 7/10

Bernard did OK. He got up quickly and didn’t appeal for penalty after he dived in penalty area. There was a harsh WBA crowd on his back after that incident. 6/10

Given made one save against Horsefield which was a one on one situation and did well saved us from going one down. 7/10


Team performance: 5/10. The reason for this is because WBA were really bad. They gave the ball away to often to us. We could not hold the ball at all long enough before long balls headed towards Bramble’s direction. Liverpool when they played WBA held the ball much longer then us in their play.
That was the main difference.

Saunders was clueless in the dugout. Kept looking at Souness for guidance! I don’t think he is a good coach at all!

 

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