Seeing as we had already qualified and seem to be treating scoring like the plague at the moment I was expecting a fairly dull contest. Some clairvoyant me, this was a great match. AalBorg have got the basics of their game extremely well polished, their set-pieces were dangerous and a spirit level would find no fault in their defence pushing up the pitch.
But we have workers too. When Rooney is tearing around the pitch at full-pelt he looks like he could tear through walls and not even notice. His finish for the equaliser was as brutal and quick as his best but most encouragingly it was set up up deftly by Anderson’s through ball. The dreadlocked one is starting to get more consistent now and I can see him bossing European games in the future. Mind you, I am not much of a clairvoyant.
Tevez’s goal was a peach and made the cost of the ticket worthwhile on its own. Nobody works harder than this guy and I would be amazed if he does not start against Spurs. There is nothing more he can do to earn it.
I can recommend this from today’s Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/james-lawton-ferguson-haunted-by-absence-of-character-in-the-keane-mould-1064413.html
His criticisms of Ronnie and Rooney (and Berbatov) are spot on. We do need a new Keano and I don’t see one anywhere in the team.
I also read that we apparently have the worst shots-to-goals ratio in the Premiership and we are currently only the 4th highest scoring team (even City has scored more!)