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Every element of that comment is an exercise in meaningless. It's just a mishmash of platitudes thrown together. Pretty typical of your average football "analyst" though. She's no worse than Carragher or whoever.
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We're heading for another bore draw and an anemic performance served up from our iron deficient press to satisfy our vegan overlord. Until, by the force of infinite sausages posted on a internet message board in another slither of the multiverse, the space-time continuum is torn asunder, and, in an impossible turn of events, a diet suitable only for rabbits suddenly becomes a viable means of nourishment for human beings, powering us to victory as, through the thick fog of spinach farts, "sausages", made from only the dead carcasses of our friends the animals, begin to rain from the heavens. Hail Caesar! 3-0 to us.
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This. If your performance costs the team points then that needs to be taken into account when evaluating the performance. Gordon, for all the positive aspects of his performance, cost us points by spurning several absolutely golden opportunities to score. He didn't hide. He kept trying. The effort was exemplary. But when it came to the crunch, he bottled it -- three times. In many many instances that had limited influence on the outcome of the game, Gordon did well. In three instances when he had a clear chance to win the game, he did horribly. For me, the former does not even come close to negating the latter.
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That's Gordon's worst performance for us. He should've scored a hattrick. A penalty, a free header 5-yards out, and a one-on-one 10-yards out. What an absolute dog's breakfast of a performance from him. It isn't often you can attribute a result to a single player, but given his lack of quality in front of goal today I think it's fair to say that he has cost us two points. You'd imagine he accumulated more xG than Everton's entire team. Going back to Everton clearly plays on his mind. In fact, we have to recognise that going away from St. James' in general has a markedly detrimental effect on his performance. Today was only the worst example owing to the added circumstances of it being his former club. And the rest of our attacking players weren't far behind him. We created heaps of chances and almost had free reign in the midfield. But too many wayward passes, too many poor touches in in the final third, and our finishing was truly abysmal. I was also slightly perplexed by the decision to substitute Barnes. He hadn't had the worst game of the front three up to that point. In fact, I'd argue he was our best of the front three by default in having a quiet if completely unremarkable match considering how bad Murphy & Gordon were performing. But most importantly, for me, Barnes was the only natural finisher on the park today. In a game that clearly was waiting for a moment of quality from someone to finish one of our many chances, he was the clear candidate to get the job done. I have only just finished watching the replay so perhaps he was injured or had a niggle. If not then it's a strange decision for me. I can only assume that Howe valued the added defensive output of Murphy and so kept him on instead. Otherwise it just doesn't make any sense to me. Of course, we also lacked a bit of luck here and there. If Bruno's effort goes in from the corner it's a different game. And it was a solid performance defensively. And further praise where it is due, at least we avoided throwing it away altogether at the end like we would've last season. But really a point against a side that offered us that many opportunities to score and countered with very little going forward themselves is two points dropped. A truly uninspiring run of results from Gloomy. We've moving from Charles III, to Charles I, to Charles II of Spain.
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If only the two teams agreed to not swap ends at half-time this game could've easily been played at Plough Lane.
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It never ceases to amaze how little football the average co-commentator watches. They're forever getting basic stuff completely wrong. In the modern age where they'd have access to replays of every game and access to scouting/statistical information for every player there really is no excuse. It's pure laziness from ex-footballers living off the assumption that producers seem to accept that the average football supporter gives a shit about the half-baked opinion of some second-rate ex-professional.