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QPR boss Mark Hughes on his side's 2-1 victory over Arsenal that means his side are only in the Premier League relegation zone on goals scored: "We were fantastic today. It was really important to bounce back from our defeat at Sunderland where we didn't do ourselves justice' and we were determined to get something out of this."
"We upset the applecart against Liverpool, but I think this performance was even better if anything. We restricted them to few chances and the players should take the credit. I can give them a gameplan, but they are the ones that have to pull the shirt on and go out and execute it. It was about restricting Arsenal and restricting their chances to do well."
What is this "gameplan" you speak of? Tactically out-thought by Mark Hughes lol
Quick vote.......I find it Un-Friggin-Believable that some Idiots have voted Walcott in the lead so far..okay he scored our one and only goal, but Jeeeezzussss, other than that he was awful.
Vermaelen is a hollywood defender. He looks great scoring goals (which isn't his job) and going forward but when he comes up against a big powerful but average striker he gets found out. His contributions at the other end of the pitch have certainly masked his defensive flaws. There's little, if any, control or positional sense in his game.
1989 wrote:Vermaelen is a hollywood defender. He looks great scoring goals (which isn't his job) and going forward but when he comes up against a big powerful but average striker he gets found out. His contributions at the other end of the pitch have certainly masked his defensive flaws. There's little, if any, control or positional sense in his game.
Disagree, his first season with us he was one of our players of the season. The defenders have no coaching, they're left to do it all themselves and that's part of the reason our defence is so shit. If they had proper coaching like United do for example, we'd see a massive improvement.
I don't buy into the whole "Vermaelen is shit" thing. I think he is a very good defender but he does have mistakes in him as we've seen. Just think what a defence of TV & Kos could be capable of if Wenger actually stopped being so stubborn & admitted he needed some help coaching defence.