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Wigan Athletic 1-1 Everton. 4th Feb at 15.00.

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uknightbreed said:
yep , he gets the best out of fellaini . i think with gibson fellaini the othermidfeilders have a big task to get into the center of our team .... and even then only rodwell osman should be in there instead or cahill or heitinga in an emergancy.NOT PHIL NEVILLE , hes my 3rd choice right back and 2nd choice left back and thats it.

i just think with fellaini bossing it like he was , with gibson covering , we had the pace of donovan and pienaar on the wing (drenthe as an option ) , why not put 2 up top with jeli ( a big lad) and straq ( strong target man) and be a right handful all over the park. the neville sub was a disaster and an oportunity missed.
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I think he's settled in ok. Not a spectacular player, but certainly has slotted in. I think people are forgetting just how rank the centre midfield ha been occasions this year when the blue eyed boy was in there.
 
Baines' left foot said:
Gibson was nowhere near as bad as some people are making out. He was by no means our worst player. FFS give the guy a chance, he's played what 5 games? Centre Midfield is a difficult position to play as it is and Gibson is used to playing with much better players around him. Give him time. Do people remember when Fellaini first joined and everyone was saying he is gash, never worth 15m etc...? Now he's our best player! Well he's not in the same class but personally I think he will prove to be a very shrewd signing, especially given the outlay.
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Fair enough. We'll get to see him for awhile longer anyway. I am perfectly fine with him continuing to start until we can see if Rodders can play like he was playing before injury.

Good point from davek on Fellaini + Rodwell in midfield though. Sometimes they don't play well together.
 
chicoazul said:
Drenthe should have been thrown at their moody full backs with time to hurt them. They could have took Gibson or landon Donovan off to enable this.
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Even if he just gave him half an hour he had time to get into the flow, ride a few challenges and make an impact. Strange.
 

i think wether its rodwell/gibson/fellaini etc , we can all agree neville is not and should not be in the mix at cm :)

its a nice chice of midfield to have , shame it ruined by a poor sub and change of position making our strength in that area void.
 
Have to say that Anichebe looks a different player, I'll hold on my judgement of him though just for now.

Take this on board though..... Don't Listen to Round with his "You'd make great centre-half," he'll wreck ya Vic.
 
davek said:
1/ I've never been convinced of the Fellaini/Rodwell axis in m/f

2/ Heitinga has proven unreliable in this role and has found some form at CB...leave him be

3/ we need to give Gibson time to settle and see what we have/dont have.
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Im all for giving him time to settle. But on the back of saying Gibson makes Fellaini tick because Gibson sits better, is something I dont agree with.

Heitinga and Neville have proven in the past that either of them can do a similar job along side Fellaini. When its Heits and Nev as a partnership is happening is where you have to worry.

With Rodder and Felli in the middle, the one thing that does happen is that we can dominate and keep possession not lose it sloppily. The problem has always been the creativity, that is out of their hands.
 

Brownie said:
He's meant to be a goalkeeper tho mate, his primary attribute is his reactions and he can't react properly to a ball travelling at two miles an hour.
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he is an accident waiting to happen , my heart goes into my mouth every time the ball goes into the area or we need him to come out he dosnt command it at the back at all, was doing ok early season now back to normal first player i would replace if we had any money totally overated by many including moyes
 
I find it funny how whenever Howard makes a mistake (which is too often), that commentators always say; 'a mistake from the usually reliable and consistent Howard'...
 
edge said:
he is an accident waiting to happen , my heart goes into my mouth every time the ball goes into the area or we need him to come out he dosnt command it at the back at all, was doing ok early season now back to normal first player i would replace if we had any money totally overated by many including moyes
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rubbish. Howard is in the top 6 goalkeepers in the league. All keepers make mistakes and today was not a mistake. The conditions were awful today for him as well. I dont think we could afford anyone better than Howard because if we could you would be looking at keepers like joe hart, victor valdes etc. Howard is as good as we can get and I am happy with him between the sticks.
 

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