You watched a different game to me then mate.
There was plenty of ball going in his direction, quite a lot of them straight to him.
The ball was bouncing off him at all angles.
And for a big lad he goes down more than my grandson when you take his walker away.
He fell over at least three times with no one near him, I would seriously get him a brain scan as he clearly has a balance issue.
MY mate rang me this morning to ask for a lift to Skunk land.
When we were talking about the game, he cracked me up with "Did you see Altidore fall over after he scored?"
IT hadn't registered with while watching as I was so pleased he scored.
So have watched the goals back today and he ****ing does fall over after scoring. hahahah
Your defence of him is admirable but please don't expect others who saw the same game to ignore his serious flaws as a front man.
Jozy is a big lad, so people think he is a target man, but he does better when the ball is played along the ground. last night he has Stoke players hanging onto him all the time and the only service he received were punts up the pitch. Stoke players are better than they used to be when they have the ball, but they still resort to rugby tactics when they dont.
Anyway, Jozy divides opinions and arguing about it for the umpteenth time wont change opinions.
I dont think we played as badly as people are making out. We sat too far back once we scored, but overall I didnt think our play was too bad. The biggest difference between the team were the GKs imo. Mannone wont be scared about losing his place to Pantimilion anytime soon. How he missed the ball for the 1st goal I'll never know, and for the 2nd one he should of caught the bloody ball instead of punching it out? Whats the point in being 6"8 if you still flap at the ball ? His distribution was piss poor at times as well.
Jones (at RB 2nd half), Buckley, PVA, Rodwell all looked good. So did Alvarez for the short time he was on the pitch.
Gomez was ok and AJ did well with the service he had.
Bridcutt is an enigma. looked good occasionally and did some nice moves, but looked lost the rest of the time.
Vergini is an excellent player, need to get playing at CB so we can get Jones in at RB though as he doesnt have Jones' pace to break up the wing
O'shea same as normal, and Coates looked ok considering how little playing time he has had
edit:
people saying we played piss poor last night obviously dont remember us under PDC beginning of last season
Yes we still need to improve, but still plenty of positives compared.
