Thursday, April 27, 2006

Match Report 060426 at West Ham United: Stupidity overshadowed victory

2-1 and the result will give us a psycological boast before the FA Cup Final, but for some stupidity by Luis Garcia, he get himself sent off and will miss the Final. While we may be sympathatic on the fact that he played well in the Semi Final that let us into the Final, but sometimes you need to be careful not to let the image that you are a diver get affect yourself. But unfortunately Luis Garcia learned it the hard way. Now, we are going to win this for him without his participation.

Player Rating:
Dudek: 6.5 A decent display for our CL hero.
Finnan: 6.5 A good display at the back.
Carragher: 6.5 Leading the defense well apart from the lapse at the start of 2H.
Traore: 6.5 Not bad performance as center back.
Warnock: 6.5 A good performance.
Kromkamp: 6.5 Played well in right midfield and right back.
Sissoko: 7.5 Nice performance and a nice assist.
Hamann: 7 Good display in midfield.
Cisse: 8 Two nice goals.
Fowler: 7 A great assist but should have score himself to make it 3-0.
Morientes: 6.5 Hit the crossbar...

Substitutions:
Hyypia: 6.5 Good display when called up.
Luis Garcia: 4 Have only himself to blame for the red card.
Riise: Not enough time to impress.

Rafa: 7 A good rotation in resting most of the first team players, but would be angry for Luis Garcia's stupidity.

West Ham United: 6 Also rested many players, and it may hurt them more with Mullin's sent off. And we will beat them again in the FA Cup Final on May 13.

Man of the Match: Cisse. Great display, but why can't he play like every game?

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