After last week's blog
where I tagged myself and Matt's teams, this weekend saw us both with
long faces after the FA Cup's fourth round. I missed all of Sunday's
games, choosing instead to watch the rather good Django Unchained,
but it seems that this was a wise decision.
Now I could start
complaining about poor decisions (possibly) but what seems to have
been the downfall is starting with no strikers. My last blog
post focused on the lack of options and it was sensible to rest
Jermain Defoe and play Dempsey, but this in my view was a missed
opportunity to start one of our youth team players - namely John
Obika or Iago Falque - and give them the chance to start a match.
Instead we went in like a
leaderless Spain and attempted to beat Leeds without a striker.
Perhaps it worked, but the evidence is that Clint Dempsey was left to
spearhead the attack along with fellow midfielders Sigurdsson, Bale
and Lennon.
Personally, I am an
advocate of the youth team and would prefer to exciting young players
like Andros Townsend and Tom Carroll given the opportunity to play
against a decent opposition, plus let the former settle the score
with (former loan boss) Neil Warnock.
I will not complain about
AVB's player choice if we get 3 points against Norwich on Wednesday,
but it is disappointing to be out of the FA Cup with no chance of
wembley this season
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