I think it is significant that as soon as Mario Lemina turned up, Steven Davis got forward for long enough to score. We all take the Miguel out of Davis for not being able to put away the meagre chances he gets, but that doesn't mean he absolutely can't finish. Clearly he can, the past has proven that, and now he just may get a little bit more opportunity, because he won't have to keep doing quite so much work in his own half.
I like this theory a lot and will continue to until it gets smashed in the face by harsh footballing reality .... alternatively we may be able to claim football genius status tomorrow evening
Let down by the whole over-hyped, over-commercialised, pseudo-religious Christmas experience? Yearning for those days of yore when you could get excited by finding an apple and an orange in your stocking? Skint?
No room for clubs and going with non golfers, so Vale of Llangollen will have to wait for another day!
http://sportwitness.co.uk/i-root-mourinho-except-game-southampton-player-ready-fight-man-united/ Interview Cedric gave to a Portuguese paper re. this match.
Interesting theory b there I think football would be worth the price if some players were off their nut on shrooms. Thinking 3 randomly from each team and the players not to know until they've kicked in. That'd certainly liven up dull games. Try to work who's starting to get ****ed and if the midfield battle is boring just watch Fraser licking the post.
Anyone teccy know why I can't watch videos on the official site? Unless there is a fault and someone else has tried. What player (flash)would I need to update. Was trying to watch the United preview. You tube is OK, just no videos on the official site work.
I don't buy it that lemina and Romeu will means Davis is suddenly better going forward. He just isn't that type of player. Doesn't operate that well in the final third due to his movement and passing (not that he is a bad passer but he doesn't look to play intricate balls through the defence). Not a criticism of him whatsoever. It's the same as if someone suggested using Gabbiadini as a winger - it wouldn't work simply because that isn't his position.
Has his past really proven that? I mean, he has scored goals, so he is technically capable of scoring goals. The problem isn't the meagre chances he gets, though: he has averaged a healthy shots per game total over the course of his time with Saints, and he's not the "have a go from 30 yards" sort, either. And over the course of 5+ seasons and 13000 minutes*, he has just 10 goals. Can't rightly suggest that, over those 13000 minutes, the problem has been that we haven't been feeding noted finisher Steven Davis in the right places with enough frequency. *On a goals per minute basis, Davis is just a hair more prolific than Maya Yoshida. You can expect Maya to score once every 16.025 Premier League games if playing the full 90 minutes; Davis is at 14.356.
Gabbiadini spent a great deal of time on the right in Italy, for what it's worth. More than he spent at striker. As a wide forward more than a winger, but yeah.
That bit about the apple and orange reminded me of my two sons, and how it isn't always exciting. We always used to put a stocking, containing exactly the same items, at the end of their bed, to wake up to, but it is only in recent years that we discovered that the oldest boy would wake before the youngest and swap a few things around. The youngest never said, but he always wondered why his brother would get chocolate in his stocking, whilst he only got fruit.
