I am fairly emotionless regarding our performance today. As soon as I saw Lovenkrands was starting, I knew today was not going to go well. Our wing backs are woeful. Simmo keeps back tracking whereas Raylor is nowhere to be seen. Obertan had a fairly decent game in my opinion and was not helped by a lack of options. Perch was terrible but put in the odd good challenge. We are screwed if we have no Saylor or Colo We should have kept benny on as he was getting into the game. Ba was ok and Shola had the odd chance but was his usual donkey self. I was pleased with the 2nd half performance and we were the better team however Pards needs to work on his substitutions. Bring on next week (We need Tiote back!!)
So many missed place passes. Unable to get sufficient challenges in and his positioning is terrible. Watch him closely
This. TBF he actually had a GOOD performance today and that is possibly the only positive out of todays game.
Most of us would have taken a point from the last three games and we got a point. With Norwich, Swansea and West Brom before Christmas we have the chance to get a few more decent points on the board before Xmas. It was pretty clear from early on that today wasn't going to be our day. Can take positives from the 2nd half display.
I am Shola's biggest fan and he had a good game, but there is no way you can criticise Ba And Perch was fantastic for a player playing out of position.
Can't believe you're being so harsh on Lovenkrands. he was better than Obertan who wasted nearly everything he had.
Yeah Perch wasn't terrible by any means and he was better than usual, BUT - he was at fault for Drogba's goal, he had switched off and was giving Drogba mountains of space. He also picked some miserable passes at times too, please let's not get carried away with the great James Perch simply because he made some good tackles.
Maybe despite my opening sentence, I was ruled by some emotion...... On reflection I believe to have been a little harsh and went in head first! Apologies denizens of not606!
Why are people only blaming Perch for Drogba's goal????????? It was Cabaye who let Mata get away far too easily and gave him a simple cross. Even if Perch had been a bit more switched on then Drogba still probably would have beat him in the air.
Agreed, Cabaye ****ed up too but Perch was actually nowhere near Drogba at all. You can say 'probably this or maybe that' but it remains fact that he wasn't switched on and wasn't marking his man which is a pretty big fault when you consider that unmarked man got a goal.
Because Cabaye is beautiful and Perch looks like the car out of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! To be fair, aside from that mistake I thought Perch was decent. Was unlucky making the initial block form Torres for their 2nd and put his body on the line to block a shot on the edge of the box...Overall I can't complain about him! Obertan was dire today...A couple of neat touches broke up the monotony of terrible ones for me!
Perch, barring the comical defending for Drogba's goal and one or two ****e passes, was pretty good. Obertan and Raylor were ****ing dire. Simpson not much better. Have we done enough waiting for Obertan? I think so. ****e.
