Wed 14th Oct 09
Howdy parteners,
I'm sorry i've been a bit lax on the old diary but with the international fixtures goiing on i've been having a short break. Old Gauston, Rudi Vollborn and a few buds went off to Spain for the weekend to relax.
Anyway i'm sure all you fans are dying to hear my take on todays result against Basle in the Champions League.
We were going into the game after the 1-0 defeat at home to Juve hoping for a positive outcome in this game. Kirky Whitelock gave old gauston a report saying that there defence was slow and not so good at dealing with whipped crosses and high balls. We decided that we would go with pace and power and with a attacking attitude.
The team line up was:
------------------Robinson
Stalteri ----- King - Hofland - Gardener
------------------Prutton
S.W-Phillips - Hitzelsperger - Bierkofa
-----------Keane --------- Stead
We started off well and scored after 3 mins with a good run and shot from Bierkofa. The pattern seemed to be set and we pretty much bombarded there penalty box with crosses and high balls in the hope old Steady would win the headers. After 19 mins Stead controlled a cross from Hitzelsperger and hit a low shot past Basle's goalkeeper to make it 2-0.
After that period of good footie we seemed to switch off and we conceded a crap goal to a boy called Schwegler or something like that. That left us 2-1 up at half time.
H/T i gave the boys a promise that i'd get the first round in if we won this game by 2 clear goals. I was rather disappointed to find out that old Steady had picked up a knock so Aga Adu was sent on to replace him.
2nd Half was a bit of a boring number until Pat knocked in a 16 yard strike for Basle to make it 2-2. The bleepin bleeep bleep bleep scored and it looked like a bad state of affairs until the ever willing Robbie Keane beat 2 men and slid the ball under the goalie to give us back the lead. I love that laddie. Then 3mins into injury time, Kallon who came on for Wright-Phillips got round the back to latch onto another well flighted pass from Hitzelsperger to nod home the 4th.
4-2 and yet another round of beers i owe the boys.
Gauston was a bit annoyed with the sloppyness of the defence at times bit hey ho a wins a win in my book.
On the other news of this week i've decided that it's time for those scout boys to earn some of there wages for a change and look at players that can come in to make my round at the bar more expensive in january they've come up with a list of 3 players who look worth some of the 57mil i've got to spend.
DaMarcus Beasley(Everton) good winger on either side.
Christian-Schultz Peterson(Aab) Scored 10 in 10 and is a bright prospect at 22yrs old according to Gauston.
David Foster(Middlesbrough) Central midfielder who has shown maturity beyond his years at the age of 21 and looks like a possible long term replacement for Hitzlesperger.
I'll chat with Gauston as he is good at picking guys who'll fit in to the setup and we'll see what happens.
Anyway goodnight from and from Bunny who i met a hot honeys bar in Malaga.
Hugo