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Not my words…
Ratings can be tricky to get right – after all, there is no correct answer. Should more Spurs players have approached the 8, 9 and 10 of Niko Kranjcar, Aaron Lennon and Jermain Defoe?
In my opinion, defenders shouldn’t get very high marks when they’re not actually having to do much defending. Wigan were not exactly offering a stiff test yesterday, so that’s why most Spurs players got seven – they played well, but against a team of non-entities.
It might look odd to give Chris Kirkland seven, but the Wigan goalkeeper made a couple of excellent saves. Without him, Spurs would have made it to double figures. It’s not his fault he played behind Titus Bramble, Emmerson Boyce and Erik Edman – Sunday league footballers in the actual as well as pejorative sense yesterday.
One out of ten? Yes, perhaps you’re right. That’s too generous for Edman. He wasn’t that good. But in the end I decided that for a player to get 0, he would have to have spent the 90 minutes unconscious. Edman was, however, moving throughout the game, although very slowly and with no apparent defensive purpose. He was easy to spot: the guy in the bright orange shirt looking very unhappy, usually ten yards or so behind Aaron Lennon as he disappeared into the distance with the ball.
Tottenham ratings:
H Gomes 7
V Corluka 7
M Dawson 7
J Woodgate 7
B Assou-Ekotto 7
A Lennon 9
T Huddlestone 7
W Palacios 7
N Kranjcar 8
P Crouch 7
J Defoe 10Wigan ratings:
C Kirkland 7
M Melchiot 3
T Bramble 1
E Boyce 1
E Edman 1
H Thomas 3
M Diamé 2
C N’Zogbia 3
P Scharner 3
H Rodallega 3
J Scotland 3Not my words…Ratings can be tricky to get right – after all, there is no correct answer. Should more Spurs players have approached the 8, 9 and 10 of Niko Kranjcar, Aaron Lennon and Jermain Defoe?
In my opinion, defenders shouldn’t get very high marks when they’re not actually having to do much defending. Wigan were not exactly offering a stiff test yesterday, so that’s why most Spurs players got seven – they played well, but against a team of non-entities.
It might look odd to give Chris Kirkland seven, but the Wigan goalkeeper made a couple of excellent saves. Without him, Spurs would have made it to double figures. It’s not his fault he played behind Titus Bramble, Emmerson Boyce and Erik Edman – Sunday league footballers in the actual as well as pejorative sense yesterday.
One out of ten? Yes, perhaps you’re right. That’s too generous for Edman. He wasn’t that good. But in the end I decided that for a player to get 0, he would have to have spent the 90 minutes unconscious. Edman was, however, moving throughout the game, although very slowly and with no apparent defensive purpose. He was easy to spot: the guy in the bright orange shirt looking very unhappy, usually ten yards or so behind Aaron Lennon as he disappeared into the distance with the ball.
Tottenham ratings:
H Gomes 7
V Corluka 7
M Dawson 7
J Woodgate 7
B Assou-Ekotto 7
A Lennon 9
T Huddlestone 7
W Palacios 7
N Kranjcar 8
P Crouch 7
J Defoe 10Wigan ratings:
C Kirkland 7
M Melchiot 3
T Bramble 1
E Boyce 1
E Edman 1
H Thomas 3
M Diamé 2
C N’Zogbia 3
P Scharner 3
H Rodallega 3
J Scotland 3i 100% agree with what was written – and its all down to Martinez being stubborn and pretending he is a master tactician. Clueless, out of hos depth. I said this a while back, and really made a point of it after portsmouth.
Championship next year, with a ridiculous goal difference. Thanks Dave for putting in the cheapest candidate for the managers job.
Sunderland will get 4. You can get 20/1 on a Bent hat-trick. Double it with Scotland not to score at all, all season (on Blue SQ) – it will pay for the summer holidays!!!!
i did like the…
“But in the end I decided that for a player to get 0, he would have to have spent the 90 minutes unconscious. Edman was, however, moving throughout the game, although very slowly and with no apparent defensive purpose”
Well….they DID say that King was a victim of mistaken identity.
Let’s kidnap the chubby little pineapple head, shave him bald, stretch him a bit, stick him on a slim-fast plan, and frame the fukker!
“Mr Scotland….your on D Wing”.
Scotland “No man, I play up D front!” :lol: (Not sterotyping or anything)
Mind you, with his form……he’d miss the trial. (Boom tish!)
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