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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates
Given the short time he has been in charge I think he did OK - but for one point. Most of the players play in teams that pass short and quick with the occasional long diagonal pass - why was Hart and some of the defence booting it long. Even if an England player got to it first there was no support for him.
There was a great need for a midfield architect - another Scholes or similar, Gerrard & Parker had to be too defensive to be able to control the game so for long periods we were without the ball.
Whatever happened to the ruling that there could only be so many foreign players in a team?
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Think I can agree about the long ball Barrie, but if he was going to play that way he should have started with Carroll from the start, at least he can hold the ball up and we looked more dangerous when he came on, the things is we had no answer to Pirlo, we needed somebody snapping at his heels every time he got the ball not giving him a free roll to stroll though the middle of the park time after time