Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:FFS the defender should have cleared the ball in the first place. His feet were so slow he never even kicked at the ball, he just let the ball hit his feet and diverted it to Scholes. He then fell over like a newly crippled person attempting their first steps in physiotherapy.
No problem whatsoever with the goal from a MU/PS perspective. He took the goal well, controlled the ball, didn't panic, moved in to space and prodcued a good finish. But from a defensive POV that was a pathetic goal. There was nothing special about the cross and it should have been cleared to the half way line. There was nothing exceptional from Scoles's footwork, it was simply awful defending to allow him to time and space 8 yards from goal to calmly finish.
I've got no problem with your analysis of Wolves' defending of the cross, I was just simply stating, as far as Scholes' technique to get the ball controlled then round the defender, before hitting a nice finish was class.
Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:I was venting over the Vokes miss when someone else asked if the top 3 were on the same points. I then went into more detail over the nature of Scoles's goal and Vokes's miss. I wasn't doing an in-depth match report.
I suppose Vokes's miss was really down to van der Sar's Jedi mind tricks?
That really was an awful miss. It was awful defending too to leave him free. There were a couple of other times when Vokes had the chance to score but fluffed it.
I don't know which was the worse miss of the game, Vokes' effort or Diouf's starfished headed effort when he faced an open goal. At least Vokes had VDS in his way.
