Thursday, September 11, 2003

Beattie was playing?

He was unlucky with the chest down and shot off the post thing, but other than that I thought he did great running around empty areas of the pitch - sometimes you need a player to do that. Perhaps Sven had told him he was going to have to work hard off the ball...

Good to know you could hear Adam's hooter on the telly. I'd have had Hesky on instead of Owen. Owen's lost it, he now tries to take the ball round people by running through them, like Dave Lewis, but Dave Lewis has the bulk to actually achieve it, whereas the petite Owen just loses the ball. His striker instinct is only there in flashes, he took his header well, but when the ball came to his feet with an open goal he decided against being a professional footballer for that split second. Heskey may not be everyone's favourite, but against a timid and rather feminine defence he'd have bulldozed himself a couple of goals, whereas Owen tickled himself up against them and then watched the ball ping away. At least Neil, who is smaller than Owen, actually gets the ball around people. You play to your strengths, Owen seems to have forgotten what his are.

The Liechtenstein keeper - would you?