Ninja Elephant
Doctor Elephant
- Feb 16, 2009
- 18,855
Sparrow for Vincelot. Nothing against the lovable Frenchman, whose first touch is quite magnificent and looks very versatile and an all-round good player but without question for me, we needed more know-how in the midfield and we lacked Matt Sparrow's presence in my opinion. I would have replaced Barnes with Sparrow at 1-0 down to add more balance to the midfield, it might have been a bit negative but what do you get out of playing Barnes wide right when under the cosh? I would have rather Sparrow play out there and cause them more problems from deeper, I'm not saying it would have changed the result but I would have felt more comfortable.
I'm not sure what Vincelot offers that Sparrow doesn't in a central midfield position, a lot of people on here have accused him of being anonymous in the midfield but I didn't see what Vincelot contributed other than the occaisonal nice touch and occaisonal pass forward. Our best midfielder, without question, is Liam Bridcutt. Little gem of a player.
Not going to complain with the result today, I thought we bullied them at 2-0 up and we could have gone on and got a third, and should have had the penalty at 2-1. But it wasn't to be and we let them back in. On the plus side, I had a nice win on the virtual bookie game!
In summary, same team again but for Sparrow for Vincelot please, Gus!
I'm not sure what Vincelot offers that Sparrow doesn't in a central midfield position, a lot of people on here have accused him of being anonymous in the midfield but I didn't see what Vincelot contributed other than the occaisonal nice touch and occaisonal pass forward. Our best midfielder, without question, is Liam Bridcutt. Little gem of a player.
Not going to complain with the result today, I thought we bullied them at 2-0 up and we could have gone on and got a third, and should have had the penalty at 2-1. But it wasn't to be and we let them back in. On the plus side, I had a nice win on the virtual bookie game!
In summary, same team again but for Sparrow for Vincelot please, Gus!