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Birmingham City Vs Tottenham Hotspur: Match Thread
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The home defeat to Wigan especially. Ugly or pretty, we need to maximise home points.
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He mistimed too many of his jumps today but that's nothing new.
Crouch is more valuable in our box sometimes. At least I think that's how Redknapp sees it. You may recall how he managed to deal with Samba a few wks ago when defending high balls into our box, for example.
I fully expected Crouch to play the entire game today, especially after Zigic was brought on. Not saying it was the right decision, however. Playing Crouch for 90 minutes rarely is.
Not seen the game, but we are never going to reach the standard we want to until we can defend a lead by sitting back.
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We struggle with set pieces. For the record, I can't stand Peter Crouch.
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Despite not going for the jugular in the second half, we created enough opportunities to go further ahead. We were toothless up front today and too often we picked the wrong pass in the final third.
Defoe was awful. Less involved than Crouch but just as bad when he was, really.
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Ina nutshell. Still work to do. Tweaks, imo but still needed. 2 or 3 players and we'll be lip-smackingly good.
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Win ugly, you mean. I agree on that point but the thing is, today we didn't play badly. We let them back into it and should have been out of sight by the time they got their goal. Our strikers were shocking.
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The thing is, he's not really great at defending set pieces. Look at the Liverpool game and the goal we conceded, Crouch didn't get ahead of Skrtel and he ended up scoring after winning the first ball.
I'm sure there is others this season as well.
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I would have thought it was fairly obvious but...
11 in three games against crap opposition means his 24 goals last season isn't anything to write home about.
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Yes, you are correct. But I bet you Redknapp leaves him on for this reason. We have a lot of midgets in our team-this much is probably not lost on Redknapp.
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Barcelona are a team of midgets. Do you think they would play Crouch in case the opposition have a corner!
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Dissappointed we didn't put that game to bed, but a point isn't a bad result - but with their mid week exertions showing I expected us to go on and get the second - and we should of.
A bit of perspective though, a point away at Birmingham is still a good point even if we should have won and its nowhere near as frustrating as losing to Wigan at home or even drawing with Sunderland at home.
On a brighter note I think Bale will eat up the Chelsea defence next week...great chance to beat them.
Pitty City and the Scum won but we are still well in the mix and 10 points from 12 is very good going.
Minor set back not winning today but its hardly anything major considering our recent form.
A bit of perspective though, a point away at Birmingham is still a good point even if we should have won and its nowhere near as frustrating as losing to Wigan at home or even drawing with Sunderland at home.
On a brighter note I think Bale will eat up the Chelsea defence next week...great chance to beat them.
Pitty City and the Scum won but we are still well in the mix and 10 points from 12 is very good going.
Minor set back not winning today but its hardly anything major considering our recent form.
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Teams don't get corners against Barcelona. They're lucky if they even get the ball. :lol:
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Maybe they'll put a bid in for him in January....
Good touch for a big man and all that....
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Everton dominated them in the 2nd half at the bridge so if they can do it there, we can do it at WHL.
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Truth of the matter is, we're still only 3 points behind City but the manner in which we played in the 2nd half was very very dissapointing.
Giving the ball away and not holding it when we had it. There was one passage of play in the second half where we passed it well, the time where it ended with Lennon flicking it with the outside of his boot to Defoe with him not being able to hold off his marker and getting bullied off the ball, it left me wondering why that was the 1st time in the whole of the 2nd half we'd done that.
We let ourselves down today in my opinion.
Gotta say we surely lost the ball the most today with Ekotto... Most of his passing is just too hopeful. Was incredibly fruestrating.
Giving the ball away and not holding it when we had it. There was one passage of play in the second half where we passed it well, the time where it ended with Lennon flicking it with the outside of his boot to Defoe with him not being able to hold off his marker and getting bullied off the ball, it left me wondering why that was the 1st time in the whole of the 2nd half we'd done that.
We let ourselves down today in my opinion.
Gotta say we surely lost the ball the most today with Ekotto... Most of his passing is just too hopeful. Was incredibly fruestrating.
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