Bananas

I think the only excuse, whether we buy it or not, is that with the disastrous play-offs at the end of last season, the team was in a state of semi shock and panic. The fact that we had to play EL qualifying games, and early too, meant there wasn't much time to be patient with transfers. Hopefully we won't make that same mistake again.

That's right pash, keep your trap shut.

It burns me to think we signed Olsen for 500K plus his wages are around that for the next 3 or 4 seasons. I can't see us off loading him without taking a big hit financially.

And I can go to bed.

Solid performance, even if we did leave it late to score the first goal. Mystakidis was excellent. Cimirot and Charisis solid again in the middle. If Charisis keeps this up, this kid could be NT material one day. Yeah, I said it. Mak, Jairo, Tzavellas, Vitor good as well. Kitsiou and Leovas a little quiet. Good to see Berbatov on the scoresheet and oh my god, we kept a clean sheet. Might make the score line my computer background.

GOOD!

Nice goal Berbatov. He's got a good leap on him.

Tziolis for Cimirot. I am thoroughly confused.

He's versatile, that's for sure.

Nice passing ... crisp.

See, was that hard ? Nice goal. Great 1-2, cross and finish. Yeah, good work from your boy pash.

Not sure why Jairo is coming off for Berbatov. I would've taken Pelkas off.

57' and there it is, Klaus off a rebound from Mak's shot.

For f***s sake finish it.

The kid definitely has potential, but still has a way to go.

If you're going to cross, aim for a man. These nothing crosses annoy me no end.

We've gotten into the box enough times that we should've scored at least one by now. Need to be a bit more clinical with that final touch/pass/shot.

If we were wearing red and white we would have had 2 penalties by now. Just saying.

On a side note, has there been any talk of renewing Vitor's contract ?

Ha ha Tudor.

Damn pash, those numbers on the jersey never bothered me until you brought it to my attention. Now I'm going cross eyed looking at them.

I've never been a fan boy of any particular system. Use what suits your squad, and change according to your opponent. Having said that, the 4-2-3-1 on the weekend gave us lots of width. The right flank with Kitsiou/Jairo and the left with Leovac/Mak worked well. It also meant Jairo/Mak could concentrate on attacking without having to worry so much about their defensive duties since they had a full back behind them. Having said that, Charisis and Cimirot were excellent. I am keen to see them play together in the middle again. Please stay injury free ....

Overall, a very very good performance. Can't really single out any players for playing badly. The back line was solid. I really like the midfield pairing of Cimirot and Charisis. Pelkas and Mak were probably a little quiet but still solid. Jairo was excellent from the first goal onwards. And Klaus was decent as well. The important thing is we didn't have those lapses where the team just goes to sleep for a period, or can't string passes together. The possession, passing and energy levels today were very good. Hopefully a sign of things to come. Oh, and Berbatov had nice boots on ...

Agree Boston, they slow or speed up the game to try and feed him. The fact is, he's still not even close to being match fit. The only game where we got value for money from him was against Dortmund.

One day, in an alternate universe, we kept a clean sheet.