Carroll does a lot of good things, but a lot of his passes are backwards or sideways. If he wants to step up then I think he needs to become more incisive.
Good win, thought it was a pretty bad performance though.
Starting to get infuriated with the overplaying and stupid little two yard passes that we are seeing more and more within our own half. These are rarely going forward but backwards and sideways and putting players under huge pressure on many occasions. This isnt just tonight has been occuring in a lot of the games recently. Needs to be cut out or better teams will punish us.
this, it's a total disgrace Friedel has been starting over him. Friedel has been a very good keeper over his career but atm is nothing more than average. I'll take the occasionally Gomes mistake over an average keeper any day. If we want to improve on Gomes (which I don't disagree with, his mistakes were pretty costly last season, though overall he was ok), we should be looking to Germany for a host of very promising young keepers.
Said this when I first saw him and will say it tonight. Carroll looks special.
Come on it was so obvious he was looking for a penalty:shrug:
needs more attacking threat for me, but worked hard for 90 today against a good team
He was. You don't normally get English commentators being that negative towards English teams very often though.
Turning in to some player, hope we have him on a long contract.Great defensive switches by Redknapp. It was inevitable we'd concede with Livermore and Rose in the back 4, but Kaboul came in and he was absolutely amazing.
Gomes, Kaboul were great.
Carroll, Sandro, BAE and Bassong were good.
The rest were average to poor.
I don't think they were being negative, just honest you cant expect them to lie
this, it's a total disgrace Friedel has been starting over him. Friedel has been a very good keeper over his career but atm is nothing more than average. I'll take the occasionally Gomes mistake over an average keeper any day. If we want to improve on Gomes (which I don't disagree with, his mistakes were pretty costly last season, though overall he was ok), we should be looking to Germany for a host of very promising young keepers.