nail and head mate Posts merged: is the lad not entitled to a bad game. riise looked poor tonight, got destroyed by their winger, Sami was poor, Xabi had a poor game bar the goals, Cisse contributed little and even Finnan looked of his game. but hey, lets single out crouch and his work rate. after all, he's an easy target and you'll get plenty of numpties who will agree with you. have you not thought that the reason why Crouch looked so pooris because Cisse disnt stay close enough to him, that the support from midfield was slow in arriving, that there was very tlittl ein the wway of quality balls going to him, namely because Xabi's passing game wasn't at his usual standard?