ayrshireblue wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:ayrshireblue wrote:I was at the game, I saw it with my own eyes. For the first goal we were doing nothing with the ball till Nasri came over and forced Navas to go wide then Yaya picked him out and he delivered a good ball in which found Jovetic. The only other time he looked threatening was when he had the shot in the second half but again his decision making was poor as he had two men square and in better goalscoring positions.
I don't care whether you were at the game or not. I can remember loads of instances where he could have done better, sometimes he was headless & shit. I saw loads of the same with Aguero & Nasri, the bit you are missing, is everything else, where he made a positive contribution & you don't see remotely interested in it. There is proof on the Os, which you can look at with your own eyes now, which shows anyone who cares to look at it without an agenda, why Navas is in the team, & how he contributed to both goals & could have been resposible for several others. It also shows Aguero being a right greedy cunt at times.
No less guilty than Navas for maing wrong decisions. Milner is often worse still & Zabba is even worse than that. It happens.
If Navas hadn't played, we probably wouldn't have won. He is a great asset to the squad.
I have watched the video and can see positives in some of his play. He is an impact player as someone has pointed out who is being used as a starter every game just now because of injuries. Maybe I am just frustrated because I can see how good he almost is and wish he could make that step up in his decision making. His play in the second half was definitely better than in the first half, which I probably didn't appreciate at the game due to being in 221. He is a good squad player but is nothing than that in my opinion yet at the moment he is being asked to be a match changer for us. Sometimes he manages this, most times he doesn't.
You're right about Aguero being a greedy cunt but he gets away with it because he sticks the ball in the net more than most. Zabba and Milner probably get away with it because of their work rate. Kompany, Hart, Yaya all make wrong decisions too.
I think Navas is what he is. I don't think we can change him that much, but we could tell him to be a bit more direct & fire more crosses in perhaps, if the strikers made the runs where it was likely to be worthwhile. Too often they don't imo & are looking for precision rather than just runing into danger areas & hoping the ball ends up there, which imo is the best way to work with a winger. Then the winger knows where to aim for & it takes out some of the indecision you are referring to.
In the end though, he's a squad player as you say. Imo, he's a bit of a gem in that respect.