Thank you Sir Michael for my belated, but best, Christmas present I haven't breathed for 45 minutes pheeeew...
feels like we nicked that without being very good today. fulham will be disappointed that their team didn't show the desire that Hangeland did. Berbatov needs to stop whingeing at his own team too. Ki came on and immediately gave a free kick away. Would Celtic like to have him back? We look worse for him being on the pitch imo. Sloppy as ****. Given that we played half a team of reserves though 3 pts well won.
Yeah, I'm starting to get a bit worried about Ki too. We always seem to look a bit shakier when he comes on / tighten-up when he goes off.
Just what I've been saying for yonks!! We've got no bite in midfield AT ANY TIME and we damn well need to address that problem immediately. Great three points and a horrendous second half performance where we just snatched an undeserved win. Thank you, Mr Stockdale. If anyone was satisfied with that crock of s**t in the second half, they were watching a different game to me. I have come to the conclusion that Ki is not for me thank you very much. The guy is just not an athlete and when we are being pressed hard, he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the pitch. We were totally incapable of keeping the ball, lost most of the 50/50s and were beaten to the second ball almost every time. How we won that, I don't know but we sure as hell didn't deserve it - and hats off to the defence. I'll take the three points all day long but let's not kid ourselves, this team needs a lot of work and an injection of at least three quality players including, essentially, a hard running, combative midfielder. Over to you, Michael.
We won FFS! Dear me you do realise Fulham have some cracking players themselves and were doing their very best to get the result right? Be happy mun.
spot on Ivor, a fortunate 3 points and we could have had no complaints if we only took one, but i guess there have been other games when we weren;t so lucky so i'll gratefully take all three today. Ki looks well out of sorts and we could really use a strong leader in midfield in the transfer window. not sure about tiendelli's performance either today. on the plus side monk did well with a great couple of blocks from monk and tremmel did very well too. hope chico was well looked after by the jack army
We made SEVEN changes and produced an exceptional first half performance. We certainly didn't deserve to lose, I thought the boys were outstanding and no one deserves criticism.
Strange game where we needed to step up a gear in the second half but didnt seem to have anything more to give. Good games for Monk and Dany, a win is a win and very precious in this league so il take it any way we can get it. better t come from the team though shirly !
Second half we offered nothing in the heart of midfield. Agustien probably because of match fitness was not a factor. Ki just does not seem to have his head in the game sometimes. Too many cheap give aways when passing. JDG covered a lot of ground the last 15 minutes. Thought he played well and worked hard; well taken goal. I really like the idea of Rangel pushing more into midfield with Tiendalli behind him. It effectively shutsdown one wing and he is effective going forward. Maybe Britton/augustien and Rangel woukd work with one of Michu, JDG, Pablo or Ki in from of them depending on who we play out wide and in the #9 slot.
