I don't remember a single 'difficult' pass he had to cut out. Any defender would be expected to cut out through balls going straight towards him.
You still have to be alert to do it. If he switched off for just a second on any one of those passes, we were in. They were good crosses, right idea ... just defended against well.
I don't think they were necessarily difficult, but they would have been clear cut had he not have cut them out. There was one from a cross that was heading straight to Welbeck at the back post for a tap in. Another similar one that Welbeck would have headed in and another from Ozil's shot that Lloris parried straight to Kaboul's feet, with Welbeck again ready to pounce.
so they were just sh1t passes then , not difficult to deal with at all. glad we agree that it wasnt Spurs playing sublime football , just us playing our usual rubbish football.
So you're saying that it was unfortunate that there was a Spurs player in between our guy making a pass and our guy who he was trying to pass to? It was mildly unfortunate that Spurs had any players on the pitch... if only they had no-one on the pitch we probably would have had loads of 1-on-1s...
Your being pedantic for the sake of arguing. He's obviously saying that we were putting in the right kind of ball and had plenty of opportunities but that kaboul defended well. Don't see what the problem is with what he is saying.
Because I dont agree with it. We could play 50 through balls through to our strikers but if each one is going straight to an opponent defender that doesn't make any of those 50 'close chances' that on another day we could have scored from. Kaboul simply kicked away through balls going straight to him.
Ignore them mate. Every man and his dog can see that Kaboul had a good game yesterday. Unfortunately some people on here are more interested in trying to create a rift between our own supporters than actually talking about what actually happens during games.
Not really, he cut out balls that were good crosses and good passes to attackers. He had a good game, so credit where it's due. It's not like he was just standing there being fortunate enough to be in the way of our wayward crossing, he actually positioned himself to be able to cut those chances out. Another CB might not have and we could quite likely of scored on another day.
I was at game and thought Kaboul had a very good game. I even applauded most of his interceptions as good defending. Piskie is right. If defender hadn't had such a good game then we would have had 3 or more clear cut chances to score. Also thought Ozil and Ox were outstanding and Santi C was very good when he came on.
I'm glad that somebody without an agenda has mentioned that, because the comments that 'he just happened to be in the way' and 'Kaboul has NEVER , played and never will play a blinder' actually show just how skewed some people's thinking has become in their determination to slate our team.
So because you've got one other person agreeing with you, that rubber stamps the assertion that you're correct and anyone who doesn't agree with you has skewed thinking?? Arrogant much?
Why does that surprise you? You could probably look at the prediction league and find that the average is for arsenal fans to predict wins for ~ 33/38 league games. Does that mean that we are all deluded or we're just being a bit wishful in something with no stakes? Add money to the equation and that'd go down to about 23/38...
I've no issue with people predicting wins or being guilty of wishful thinking. But slating us each week and telling everybody that we're **** AND predicting we'll win the league is slightly incredulous. Don't you think ?
, Not really, that's just my opinion. It wasn't just one other though, a fair few spurs fans, their manager and a wide array of pundits also thought Kaboul had a good game.
what a shambles that our expensively and meticulously organised team can be thwarted by ONE player , of Kabouls level , having a good game. Things are worse than i thought. #couldntmakeitup
