IMAMATEOFJOVSKY So who was Coppell firing the bullets at in his interview ??- saying that some players were treating the ball like a hot potato and basically didnt want it .....guess we will know when he picks team for play off game on Saturday but surely Kebbe and Gypo Hunt have to be the first two on the list...Little on crutches would have been better than both of them yesterday!
Kebe can at best turn defenders inside out and (witness Norwich) can even put in a few decent balls. Against Brum, though he had lost all confidence. At one point in the second half he received the ball just outside the penalty area, but with no defender near. He could have controlled the ball, steamed into the box and set up mayhem. What did he do? Punted it in before he had it under control and skied it ionto the crowd. That's hot potato form for you.
A question though: if Kebe can set up Long twice with perfect centres at Norwich he should have felt on fire. And yet he didn't. Why not? Is there a management issue here? Likewise Long - two well judged positions at Norwich to score twice, then against Brum made no move at least twice to reach perfect balls across the face of the goal. Where had his confidence gone?
If not a management issue, maybe a crowd issue. Players must read this site and those two have had far more criticism than they deserve. Perhaps they have become a bit scared at home because of the way the crowd gets at them. Top class at Norwich, bottom of the class six days later. If we could scrape through to Wembley we might see the away form back.
