Bajan, yes I do agree, in particular the fact that he wants the ball played onto his foot otherwise everyone shouts he doesn't get the service-Look at what Rooney did yesterday when he wasn't getting service! Boss, I have mentioned this earlier in the thread and last year and the year before etc. We are the worst team at converting corners. Cardiff beat Swansea and Man City with corners, Utd beat the Woolwich with a corner, we just seem utterly useless. We don't win a corner we lose them, we might as well give it straight to the opposition for a goal kick. Similarly we can't defend them! I won't say rant over because I can go on forever on this point!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Nice to know that the staff had a word with Krul so that we're not left in the lurch too badly when someone comes in for Lloris. Needs to work on his kicking, though. Seems a bit of a minor point after such a good display of shot stopping, but he's not comfortable with the ball being played back to him.
Hahaha, good thinking, he's a great keeper and has been quality for a while. He seems to love Newcastle though, i wonder whether he'd want to leave. Ashley would probably cash in with a big enough offer though i reckon. Hugo ain't exactly great at kicking.
To be fair, both Eriksen and Holtby have taken some really good set pieces this season(freekicks mostly). Eriksen went from good to woeful on Sunday though, he picked out Soldado well early on from a corner and put in another one that Vertonghen got on the end of, as well as finding Soldado again from the freekick that Krul pulled out a brilliant save from but the rest were just total ****. I'd love to see us actually show some movement in the box that makes it look like we're actually practicing set pieces though, everyone seems to act totally independently from what I can see and that's been a problem for a long time with us.
The set pieces are strange. With AVB's supposed scientific approach you would have thought set pieces, both attacking and defending, would be one of our strong points. They are after all one of the game situations you can easily recreate on the training pitch.
I think if you look at the sides that have dominated set pieces it's ones that are high on physicality and low on footballing quality. You can argue that it's the managers preference too but they have no choice but to focus on what their team is suited to. Wenger can be considered similar in style to AVB and they look dodgy at set pieces too.
I meant more like height, strength and aerial ability. When you compare the likes of Vertonghen, Chirches, Soldado and Paulinho to other sides I don't think they stand out at all.
Walker, Dawson, Chiriches, Vertonhen Lamela, Dembele, Sandro, Capoue, Chadli Adebayor Subs: Paulinho An entire outfield consisting of players 6ft+. Quite a few of whom are 2 or more inches taller than 6ft. Granted, it doesn't mean they are good in the air but they're all big strong boys, apart from Lamela.
Stoke had more success with their long throw then we have with a simple set piece, yaya toure has turned into a free kick specialist by practicing after training. Do our players stay and practice after training like becks and lampard used to do, or are they in a rush to go on Twitter.
To put it in perspective, Chiriches lost pretty much every header against Lukaku a few weeks ago, Vertonghen also struggles against someone who's strong in the air and I don't think I've seen Walker win many headers either. I've just never seen any of our players put in a dominating aerial performance but when you look at sides like West Ham and Pulis' Stoke they're full of these powerful players who are aggressive both attacking and defending set pieces. Can't believe you've missed out Kaboul though!
Bale did that too. Townsend definitely needs to practice striking the ball if he's going to keep taking so many shots, him and a few others could do with watching Sigurdsson.
Old promo video from Adidas [video=youtube_share;zEiw2_0I4K8]http://youtu.be/zEiw2_0I4K8[/video] Obviously abit of acting going on, but practice, practice, practice!
