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Posted: Sunday May 20th, 2007 07:14 |
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I cant remember being so impressed by a striker. Drogba is not your silky skilled player like Ronaldo for example but he just gives you so much as a player. Even though Muruniho is a loud mouth hes knows his football to the extent that Drogba has been the first player on his team sheet ever since he bought him.
A player can only ever been considered the best imo if you can pull out those special momments in the top top games, the highest level. Yesterday in the FA Cup you saw that game. Technically the game was advanced which is why you saw everyone cancelling out everyone. Lesser strikers would have lost their strength, concentration and awareness to get on the end of that ball to score. But not Drogba.
Brothers got it all now as well as the magic 30+ a season which makes you a 'prolific' in inverted commas. He reminds me of a John Fashanu but with skill. Even go as far as saying that if he can still score at this seasons rate id put him above Henry for a few reasons. Henry doesnt perform in the games you really need him to too, hes not a team player and he doesnt know how to battle out a performance in games when its needed.
Drogba's got it all.
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Posted: Sunday May 20th, 2007 09:39 |
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LOL @ Henry not being a team player
He's led the assist table as often as the goals one. There is NO striker like Henry.
Respect to Drogba though, a great season for him.
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Posted: Sunday May 20th, 2007 11:34 |
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Drogba has been fantastic when I've seen him. His goalscoring has been good but its his genrally hold up play that has been a joy to watch. i have no doubts he is the bst in the business at bringing players in. The flicks, chest downs, backheels are all usually on point
If he ddint have such wasteman support from the winger/forwards( although Kalou will be big next season) it could have been even more productive season
His goalscoring has been good but its worth remembering Henry has scored 30 goals + a season for the last 5 full seasons and assists are high as well
Anyways there is room to praise both of them
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Posted: Sunday May 20th, 2007 11:52 |
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@ Watcher im not so sure when you really check it. He's so full of talent that at first glance it would appear so, but study him the next time when things arent going his way and you'll see that his head drops and he starts pointing the finger at his own team mates.
@ Cash
I know Henry is curently still worthy of more accolade because of his past achievements and he has much more skill, which is why i wrote
if he can still score at this seasons rate id put him above Henry
because if he can keep scoring at the same rate, his overall contribution is greater and more effective to a team imo. Just pips him even though Henry is a great player, but i now also put Drogba up there as one of the best in the world. Another thing about him is i feel he could adapt to any game, in any League, whereas i dont feel Henry could flex in Italy, maybe not Spain either.
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Posted: Sunday May 20th, 2007 12:34 |
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Drogba has had one good season; Henry was the Premiership's best player for the first half of this decade. Drogba's game is about power and strength, Henry about speed and creativity. Not sure they are that comparable yet, though would agree that Drogba has been a better big-game player. I like Drogba personally, though no matter how many goals he scores Henry will always be a better player to watch, IMO.
Plus Henry's infinitely more media-friendly (even without the missus ), making him a much more popular player and enhancing his reputation more, perhaps unfairly. Drogba's Swan Lake tendencies haven't helped him, though the way perceptions of him have turned around this season means he's due a lot of credit that he probably won't get.
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Posted: Sunday May 20th, 2007 13:02 |
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SoulRebel wrote: Drogba has had one good season; Henry was the Premiership's best player for the first half of this decade. Drogba's game is about power and strength, Henry about speed and creativity. Not sure they are that comparable yet, though would agree that Drogba has been a better big-game player. I like Drogba personally, though no matter how many goals he scores Henry will always be a better player to watch, IMO.
Plus Henry's infinitely more media-friendly (even without the missus), making him a much more popular player and enhancing his reputation more, perhaps unfairly. Drogba's Swan Lake tendencies haven't helped him, though the way perceptions of him have turned around this season means he's due a lot of credit that he probably won't get.
Still teams don't look to stop big perm though. They look to stop Lampard from scoring and then they looked to stop Sheva.
Perm was a great player ready to be molded when he was in France and Momo saw that in the Uefa cup final he played in for his last team. If a man can run full speed and have the agility to spin on the ball in a big game like that, Momo knew he was on the edge of a genius.
I am an Henry fan but I think that DD can reach that level. This year people left him more unmarked as he was also settling into the EPL. I always tell people it takes at least 6 mo for any player to adjust to your league because no other league plays at a breakneck pace like the EPL which really wears your players down toward the end of the season. With Lampard, Ballack, Sheva, and yes even the fragile Dutchman, Drogba was the 5th most watched person on the pitch and he started to make teams pay because of this mistake by showing his class.
When teams started focusing on him he started laying the ball off. I cannot tell you how many times I saw him lay the ball off for Sheva who shanked it, kicked the ground before striking the ball or just feebly hit it period. Remember he scored the most of these goals without a strike partner in theory because Sheva never looked to set him up. Sheva was becoming a black hole. The ball went it, but never came back out.
I have to give my hats off this season to him. Even though Ronaldo was flashier, I think DD was the EPL player of the year, but I think that Manchester United was the best team in Europe until the injury bug got to them. I am sorry that game would have been different with RIo and Park involved and the Saha we saw earlier this year... again before injuries....
I thought this was the year of another United treble. A bounce either way and it would have been.
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Posted: Sunday May 20th, 2007 15:39 |
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safetyblitz wrote: Still teams don't look to stop big perm though. They look to stop Lampard from scoring and then they looked to stop Sheva.
Perm was a great player ready to be molded when he was in France and Momo saw that in the Uefa cup final he played in for his last team. If a man can run full speed and have the agility to spin on the ball in a big game like that, Momo knew he was on the edge of a genius.
I am an Henry fan but I think that DD can reach that level. This year people left him more unmarked as he was also settling into the EPL. I always tell people it takes at least 6 mo for any player to adjust to your league because no other league plays at a breakneck pace like the EPL which really wears your players down toward the end of the season. With Lampard, Ballack, Sheva, and yes even the fragile Dutchman, Drogba was the 5th most watched person on the pitch and he started to make teams pay because of this mistake by showing his class.
When teams started focusing on him he started laying the ball off. I cannot tell you how many times I saw him lay the ball off for Sheva who shanked it, kicked the ground before striking the ball or just feebly hit it period. Remember he scored the most of these goals without a strike partner in theory because Sheva never looked to set him up. Sheva was becoming a black hole. The ball went it, but never came back out.
I have to give my hats off this season to him. Even though Ronaldo was flashier, I think DD was the EPL player of the year, but I think that Manchester United was the best team in Europe until the injury bug got to them. I am sorry that game would have been different with RIo and Park involved and the Saha we saw earlier this year... again before injuries....
I thought this was the year of another United treble. A bounce either way and it would have been.
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Something certainly clicked for Drogba this year, which was his third in the Premiership....you could see the potential at Marseille, but it's only this year that he's performed at the level promised....gotta give Mourinho some props for that....
Henry and Ronaldo play in teams that win playing attractive football; Drogba plays for a team that wins doing what they have to do, even if it's not as pleasing on the eye....maybe that's the difference. I think Drogba could wind up being a more consistent player than Henry, especially when it really counts. Still think their respective strengths are fundamentally different though........
Gotta also say, though, that Essien has been at least alongside Drogba as Chelsea's top man this year, especially given he's been played out of position so often. Also good to see Kalou, Mikel, and even SWP start to shine this year - hope that continues. Mikel was probably Chelsea's man-of-the-match yesterday.
Couldn't see a treble for Man U this year.......too much vulnerability at the back which showed too often, and they paid against the better teams (like Milan)....they could have done with keeping Larsson, and they still need an out-and-out striker (other than Berbatov ). As well as they played, there just seemed to be something missing all season, at least to my eyes....
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Posted: Monday May 21st, 2007 00:11 |
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The Watcher wrote: LOL @ Henry not being a team player
He's led the assist table as often as the goals one. There is NO striker like Henry.
Respect to Drogba though, a great season for him.
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Posted: Monday May 21st, 2007 20:09 |
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Drogba: Pay homage...ROTFLMAO..get the f**k outta here with dat....the mans a pure joke!!!
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Posted: Monday May 21st, 2007 23:30 |
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| After seeing that Arsenal V Chelsea game when DD and Lehman have a go at each other like 2 little girls, and his constant diving as well. My liking for him has nosedived considerably.
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