Joao Alleninho

Predictable tripe? Check

Gag about nick? Check

Partisan pontification? Check

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Thanks for the one star too mate

That's what I'm saying he wasn't bought to penetrate defences and we already had playerswwho don't do that, so who was bought to penetrate?

Sahin probs. I hope.

if he was called joao alleninho he wouldnt have been sold for £15M...

Gerrard was supposed to penetrate along with the other 3

But he gets slated for giving the ball away when he tries to. When you try to penetrate you're gonna lose the ball more and that's what people need to understand. Of course this takes nothing away from his poor performance on Sunday.

I've only slated Gerrard for this past Sunday's showing because it was truely awful.

Against City he tried and did lose the ball a couple of times but he didnt get as slated as much as he did for his performance against Arsenal.

Suarez has come in for a lot of criticism as well for the same reasons.

Allen made some great forwards passes as well. That run with the 3 Arsenal players should've ended with a shot from Downing but he has no confidence at all.

After watching Allen carefully during hearts game he is without doubt our most productive midfielder. between him Shelvey and Gerrard he is the only one who will recieve the ball from the defence, make space before his first touch and then turn and move forward. Other than that our midfield would happily give a one touch ball back to the defenders, which is not productive moving forward.

As for Gerrard, I think he has looked below his standards at the start of this season, however i think this style of play does not suit him. As the hearts game opened up he made a lot of surging runs forward with the ball. His passing was still off but you could see that he prefers to hold the ball and run.

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Downing II