by Ted Hughes » Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:02 am
The stats on that site are bizarre.
I only watched the game yesterday & whilst Zabba did very well indeed in an attacking sense, imo defensively he was considerably worse than Clichy.
For a start, the first real big chance Hull had was due to Zabba not recovering fast enough & playing everyone onside leaving Jelavic with a potential tap in.
I saw that Robson character get loads of crosses in from Zabba's area & there is no mention of it. I also saw Zabba get left stranded on at least one occasion, possibly more. Milner saved his arse at least once. Zabba on occasion headed the ball out under little pressure, straight to Hull players around our box.
Clichy by contrast made one bad mistake (exact same mistake as Zabba made at least once) but saved at least two certain goals with quite brilliant last man headers under pressure, due to crosses coming in, unchallenged from Zabba's area. (I'm not convinced at all that the Serbian maestro would have been on the ball to stop those two).
Zabba had Milner watching his arse for a large part of the game & Vinny coming over rescuing him on other occasions. Cichy had an occasional bit of help from Silva, & Mangala struggling like fuck, on his side. The comparisons in this thread are totally unfair.
Having watched the game yesterday, I find the comments on here completely bizarre regarding the assassination of Clichy. I was expecting a completely different game to the one I read about on here. As for comparisons with Kolarov, one is good going forward, the other is a better defender. They both are prone to completely fucking dogshit days at both ends & it's never possible to tell when it's going to happen. In our last but one Premier League home game, we lost because Kolarov let a bloke run 80 fucking yards & couldn't even foul him successfully, let alone tackle him !.
No way has he got any high ground to stand on compared to Clichy so far this season.
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