'Adel was not at his best' Has Harry been listening to Shearer on MOTD last week?? It's fine since we won but had we lost, I guess questions would have been asked.
I missed the Shearer "analysis" last week but saw it last night. What a load of total and utter crap. To compare Taarabt's role to that of Remy and Bothroyd when they scored shows again, for anyone who was not aware of it that the man does not have a clue. He is not a striker. He is a playmaker. That is a fundamental difference which even a 6 year old schoolboy would not fail to recognise.
He is indeed a playmaker, but with his skills, as we all know he can also be intimidating running at defences - that part of his game was lacking against ManU. Shearer has picked up on one bad game by Adel and applied it to all his play which is unfair. He needs to find his forward aggression next Saturday and put the Sunderland defenders under real pressure
We may thank Shearer in the long run as he doesn't like us or Adel ... Just the motivation we need. We may even have got that result yesterday based on the Dubai rubbish ... These things can work in your favour I thought Betty looked good yesterday He was putting it about and is QPR through and through you cold see that Always said we have the tools
I agree. Shearer's analysis was completely missing the point. He was arguing that Taarabt wasn't playing a strikers role. But he's not a striker! Even if he was told to stay up top and play off the front man, he was never going to do it sufficiently because that's just not his game.
I think we all understood and relate to Adel being dropped. Townsend is more of a mystery, or stroke of genius. I have only seen the MotD highlights and read what you have all said...but it appears Junior was up for it yesterday, and dropping Townsend was inspired. Can the two (Hoillet and Townsend) play in the same team???
Will worry a lot of teams yes but how about the defensive/holding midfielders.... are they strong enough??? Park MBia Jenas....... Adel and Granero will get no look in What do you lot think...as i said didn't see anything of the match yesterday
I've been saying this for weeks now, we need two striker on the pitch. Two people who will get in the box at there is no support for the lone striker. When you are by yourself in the box you make it very easy for the defence, I love Adel but with hand on my heart I just don't see where he would fit in when playing two strikers, you right his not a striker so where are you going to put him ? On the left, he didn't seem to like there, in the CM ? I would Love to see Adel play but where ? As to Townsend, no idea why he wasn't picked, or at least put on when he went for a more orthodox front 2 in the second half.
Spot on. I couldn't quite believe the complete tosh that Shearer was coming out with. He was comparing Taarabt with a super quick forward (Remy) who likes to play on the shoulder of the defender and make runs in behind. Defies belief really. Hanson must sit there thinking "what the **** are you going on about"?
I think some of what Shearer said last week was valid. Adel needs to be getting into more forward positions where he can hurt teams. True, he's not a goal-poacher who knocks them in from a couple of yards, but he hasn't been taking up too many threatening positions of late. Personally, I can't remember too many occasions in the last few matches where Adel has been one on one with a defender, either out wide or centrally. He managed in during our promotion season, and during last year's run in against Arsenal, for example. It's not about running the channels for the sake of it, but making the opposition think about their defending. I'll say one thing for Hughes, he did manage to get the best out of Adel towards the end of last season, and we need the current manager and his coaches to do the same.
To discuss Beth's valid holding midfielder point. That has to depend on who we're playing, of course. But M'Bia always worries me. He's a walking yellow card and his distribution is poor. Is Diakite fit? It was a mistake to let Faurlin go IMO. Harry has plenty of options, Derry, Park, Jenas... that makes 5 off the topof me head.. oodles of options to screen our back 4 who were superb yesterday... Wasn't it lovely to watch MOTD and pick up the paper this morning knowing we'd won.. bliss... need to keep it up now - back to back wins a must.. COYRRRRRRRRRRRssssssssss
Agree Superhusky but for the Man Utd game Shearer was talking about - he was the only player, apart from Townsend who was gonna worry Man Utd.. easy, then, to double up and lead him down blind alleys. We have the potential to be a team with multiple threats (see other threads) and I have no doubt Adel will win us some games this season.. no doubt
True, Adel does often attract the attention of two or more opposition players and this is undoubtedly a positive thing for the team. But his movement off the ball, recently at any rate, appears to have dropped to minimal levels meaning that he's no longer dragging players out of position, thereby creating space for others to exploit. I'm an Adel supporter and still believe he's one of our most important players. Harry was justified in the end dropping him yesterday, but I still believe that Redknapp and his coaches need to get the best out of Adel - and this involves getting him moving again.
First half, Granero could not control the ball. He lost it at least 3 times from simple passes it hit his foot and the ball just went careening off him and possession was gone. That's why Jenas came on in the 2nd in his place. Jenas had a narrow lane to cover, mostly left-side mid, up and down, he did OK, and this is all because of Park and Hoilett doing their bits right in front of him. Mbia tried his bit - he literally flung himself all over as usual, got himself a card, no surprise there, his best position is to sit in front the back and let him push it out. For sheer energy, chase and commitment, MOM for me was Park, he was literally everywhere, it was amazing to see, he cut out passes in the middle of the field, he chased the ball from corner to corner, got on top of players. I mean that was a career performance, it really was. That effort for the cross for the goal - brilliant. Hoilett was superb. He ran at them like Adel would, and provided some excellent passes and space for the others to fill. So........ I think it depends on the match. I think we should start with Hoilett, let him try to play like he did against So'ton, and if that is not working, then bring on Adel. Or, vice versa, depending on each other's energy levels and the way they are up on the enemy. Townsend the same - to come in if one of the combos is not working. They ket is having the Betty/Remy or the two-stop combo up front move well up there so that the mid-3 can come up and fill the spaces. Betty held the ball up nicely yesterday. I don't think Granero should play for a while. He's just not got the goods.
so you watched the game did you yapp Park was actually useless apart from the excellent work of setting up the goal
Go watch it again, focusing on Park - you're completely wrong. If he was so useless, why did Harry keep him in there the whole match? Who you kiddin'? Now Granero - he was useless.
