eddie_wills
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asajoseph said:Eddie,
I'm high as a kite, but even tomorrow morning, when my hangover kicks in, I can't believe I'll understand why you gave Cesc only 6.5 and Hleb 7....
Haha that's fine, to be fair everyone seems to be giving Hleb MOTM so maybe i missed something. He saw a tremendous amount of the ball, to his credit, and kept on trying. I just saw some wayward passing, unwillingness to shoot and thus poor decision making, not clearing his lines and holding on to the ball a little much and losing it in potentially dangerous areas. I think he had a good game though - I tend to deliberately rate a bit lower than others if you observe my ratings in previous threads... just to be ostentatious I guess.
I didn't really notice Cesc particularly, he was a metronome in possession but didn't help the creative effort didn't do too much to help the defensive effort - could have closed down a bit more perhaps, although he was probably instructed not to. No real tackles/interceptions, I noted. It was a self-contained performance, which was perhaps what we needed. I just think he gets a bit crowded out when we play our 4-5-1 which has limited width. Solidly unspectacular allied with tremendous determination forms 6.5.
Maybe I'm being a little harsh, but so it goes.