Stunned by the "pepes to blame" on here tonight, Skrtel was at fault end of, if he does his job Pepe doesnt need a rush of blood to the head and if Skrtel does his job even if Pepe comes Aguero doesnt score
Cooled down by much now and you have a valid point here while I've totally blamed Pepe initially. Pepe being Pepe if things were going well I'd believe he wouldn't rushed out in that manner and I think he has seen Skrtel not closing down Agueros fast enough and he tooked the initiative and went for the ball. And Skrtel has simply not done a proper job here, lackadaisical marking at best. Agger and Skrtel has been having it easy of late and it has caused us dearly. I hope to see a tackle, header, a foot, shoved at the back coming from both before the Augueros, Shrieks gets to the ball, not ball watching as if these players can't harm them. Simply said, both of them needs to be much much more ruthless and brutal in their marking. Said that during the match and Agger did just that in the second half, why can;t both do it over the 90 mins and 38 matches. I fail to understand. Complacent?
BR needs to shake them up and give both a solid verbal walloping. If I were BR, I'd have decided by now to get 2-burly defenders in comes the end of the season to show both how to become a big bully. Shame on both when I see a 35-year old Jamie playing as if he's still 25. Many said Jamie has lost much pace, yes he did but he made up for the non-stop running, harassing, tackling, get to the ball first while Agger and Skrtel were doing the opposite, ball watch most of the time.
I thought Downing had a good game, took on the defenders and pinned them back but no end result. BR must work on getting someone to Downing's crosses or passes into the box, otherwise we'll continue to hammer Downing. He looked lost most of the time, not knowing what to do with the final ball. Hope BR saw that and start to work on it.
Just off topic a bit, what has happened to Assaidi? Is he injured or something? I thought he would provide us something different down the left flank.
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