It was a dull match yesterday, atmosphere in the ground was flat, the weather was cold and overcast and neither Moyes or that Geography teacher on the other bench were able to liven it up.
A draw was about right and really there can be no complaints.
The major observation for me was the absolute contrast in two players. Paqueta was an absolute disgrace with his fake injuries and constant theatrics. When he laid slain in the second half near the corner of the Paddock and Gwladys for a couple of minutes even his own team didn’t put the ball out. He’s a wretched human being, on a level with Matty Cash at Villa for his dark arts. I’d hate a player like that in our Club.
In absolute contrast was the 35 year old dynamo who covered every single blade of grass a dozen times despite fasting for Ramadan. The fella put in more tackles, more passes and was genuinely involved in every single play we had. He played the whole game with a smile on his face, constantly jee’d up the players and capped it off with a brilliant ball for Big Jake’s leveller. He’s been like it all season and has been a huge reason why we’ve slowly climbed to table. Hats off to Idrissa Gana Gueye and fingers up to Lucas Paqueta - what a waste of footballing talent the latter is. The sooner he’s banned and slung in some South American hellhole the better.
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