EPL : Portsmouth V Manchester United - 7th April

last SG · 2007-04-08T01:13:46+00:00

and he nearly scored! giggs too. james is good.

OO_OO_OO SG

2nd goal was quite hilarious

van der sar just stood there and watched the ball go in..

after tt also wanna run forward to try to do corner..

imprezaWRXSTi22B SG

dun know who's at fault

is it VDS for stoning and not reacting to ferdinand's pass?

or is it ferdinand diverting the ball suddenly and VDS could not react fast enuf to the direction change?

what u guys think?

lolxzxz SG

i think VDS can chase da ball leh juz my 2 cents Wink

imprezaWRXSTi22B SG

ya lo. he din even make a token effort to scramble back.

even the great carroll snatched the ball from inside the goal to deny tottenham.... did i remember the details correctly? Mr. Green

SumOne SG

I've made a similar post before about central defenders in general. Do note though I didn't catch this match nor any replays.

I do feel there's always that possible danger of own goal by central defenders as they play close to the goal, just a slightly wrong or unfortunate touch of the ball and it'll go into the back of the net. I've known of other established central defenders who have made own goals as well. Don't ask me to recall now though.

The ball is round, so it could just go about anywhere sometimes. And I believe defenders will always try to get a leg to the ball to put it out of play for a corner or something. Yet you can't expect the defender not to try and get to the ball first.

imprezaWRXSTi22B SG

ya usually defenders inadvertently head the ball and divert it into their own goal. else they slide to try to keep the ball out but slide the ball into goal…. much like the goal conceded against blackburn last week, though it didnt directly result in an own goal

4getmenot SG

yar lar, central defenders dun pass directly to the keeper when there is an opponent just behind you especially in the box!!..... why?

u put pressure on the goalkeeper, u force him to make a clearance (no handling for backpasses) which might result in a rebound from him or the opponent..

i'd say its 80% Rio's fault.. please do not give him the armband anymore, let rooney have the armband if Giggs is not on the field. the boy will become even more inspired to lead.

imprezaWRXSTi22B SG

rooney is young and hot-tempered. much like keane. the hot-tempered part that is. the through balls to rooney on sat werent of high quality…. but james did save a couple of good efforts from him…

iveco SG

But it was Arsenal who kena hammered at home. Laughing

imprezaWRXSTi22B SG

doesnt matter. man utd was poor too....

on the other hand arse-nal was plain unlucky.... they had lots of chances...

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