No Benzema, No creative buildup.

No. Just no.

Not getting into this nonsense.

I disagree with the thread title and the dramatic post but agree with the undertones.

Right now I'm unbelievably mad that benz got subbed out at half time , esp with that horror show Di Maria being on the field , and him being our best player in the first half.

If you judge everyone based on this game , you're not doin yourself any favors, because clearly they werent focused.However feel free to judge di maria because he's been bad for a while.

The benz ozil tandem didn't get a chance today , ozil , higuain and Ronaldo just werent in tune.

he is right u know. the way benz hold and pass brings the whole team to attack. its where dangerious chances created.

If we put Higuain/Ronaldo and ozil for maria and kaka instead, it could have worked. but no, mou had his brillent plan.

as i said against teams like those benz is the most importatnt player to have, he holds the key to unlock those teams, when is mou gonno consentrate on giving benz the tempo of the match is just unknown.

Ozil + Benz would have been ideal IMO.It's not about them competing against each other

Kaka was just occupying sapce........

the root problem here is the fact that di maria was still on the field after 96 mins and benz was off after 45.

yeah I noticed the lack of creativity when benzema was subbed off, bad call from mou. Higuain was total shadow

Benzema missed twice as many easy chances as anyone else

Jeps33178 wrote:Benzema missed twice as many easy chances as anyone else

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He also created infinitely more chances than anyone else seeing as no one else even created a chance.

Sigh......don't create threads like this , people only use it to antagonise Benz.

Telling people the truth is clearly a fail. Reverse psychology is probably the best option.

ragbirjosh wrote:Sigh......don't create threads like this , people only use it to antagonise Benz.

Telling people the truth is clearly a fail. Reverse psychology is probably the best option.

the truth is that benzema misses several shots any key striker should put away, benz is a great player and he's unselfish but i dont know what your on about creating chances. hes a STRIKER, if we needed him to create chances we would turn him into a midfielder

we have players like kaka, ozil, di maria, to create chances. Benzemas job is to put away chances and if he isnt fit to put them away then he should be replaced regardless of the fact that he sets up chances or not

Higuain needs to regain confidence

Jeps33178 wrote:

ragbirjosh wrote:Sigh......don't create threads like this , people only use it to antagonise Benz.

Telling people the truth is clearly a fail. Reverse psychology is probably the best option.

the truth is that benzema misses several shots any key striker should put away, benz is a great player and he's unselfish but i dont know what your on about creating chances. hes a STRIKER, if we needed him to create chances we would turn him into a midfielder

we have players like kaka, ozil, di maria, to create chances. Benzemas job is to put away chances and if he isnt fit to put them away then he should be replaced regardless of the fact that he sets up chances or not

Higuain needs to regain confidence

Yea , they created a plethora of chances didn't they? And Benz missed every single one . Sigh....... the point turok is trying to make is that outr creatrive game went to shit when Benz came off , that is a fact.

But you guys want to crucify him for missing a half chance from 40 yeards out.Today Benz created more than Kaka , Di Maria, Corentrao , Ronaldo , Marcelo and basically the rest of the team combined in 45 mins. But that means nothing because he's a striker right.

Cool way of thinking.He's a ss.end of story.

Mourinho could put the offensive trio together when we started the second half but by miracle his made a PES substitutions.
Benzema is a master piece in creating chances and developping football but his instinct before the net was absent most of the time.

Its not benzema who'll make our game better. He also doesn't really affect the game in the way you put it out. The problem isn't the striker but the link between our attack and defense.

The stupid part was having coentrao and di maria on the wings with a useless kaka as the creator. Now the suicide part is what happened after khedira got sent off. We got rid of all the creative players. Benz, Marcelo [he's creative in his own way] and the useless kaka. We only had Ozil left with Xabi as the sole pivot so naturally we fell apart.

lol benzema missed such easy chances and u still make a thread to praise him? he *bleep* shouldve put the ball into the net.. thats what he has to do

@ halam2, I approve of the Carvalho scapegoating!


With regards to Benzema, I think Benzema should focus on his work and doing that well. I will admit he is quite a creative force in the final 3rd, this is because , oddly he seems to be most comfortable inside the 18 yard box, amazing composure. Having said that though, he looks mighty uncomfortable trying to rough it with whatever team's DM's- this must be left primarily to Cristiano and Mesut.

I think this is equally true of Kaka, id he is going to still be effective for us, it is not going to be in the centre of a midfield brawl, he also needs to push forward and stat forward (possibly on either of the flanks).

Edit OP: No Ozil, No creative buildup. as I thought, even though Ozil looked dead tired from the middle of the week, you could see exactly what we had been missing as soon as he came on.