by Mr Angry »
20 Aug 2006 13:15
The "they cheered Boro's goals" WAS a wind up guys; I know you (from off here) better than that!
As for MY opinion for who I rated in the Boro team, well, Arca was frankly terrible wasn't he, so what the fukc do I know!
The first 25 minutes, though we competed, were a footballing lesson for us, but the teams response was simply awesome; it will be interesting to see how many teams come back from 2 goals down to win in the Prem this season.
As for the players highlighted, Schwarzer had a good game for them, Yakuba was a threat all game whereas Viduka was awol for a lot of the second half and whilst Downing was a threat first half he was pretty well marshalled second half by both Murtz and Seol (who worked really well together).
Boateng was having a major battle in the middle with Sids and Harper, and was overdue a card for a late challenge on Seol before he got his yellow late on.
I guess a fair assesment is that at 2-0 they thought they had the game won, whilst we never thought we had it lost.
Augers well for the rest of the season, despite what the pundits are still saying!