Gentingthereslowly

in fairness he played against Swansea on merit as Gabby and Benteke were both on bench and shows for me the manager has a lot of faith in him

he didnt deserve to be dropped but saying that, Benteke had only done a few days training and Gabbys fitness had question marks over it.

He'll be ok back up should bent get injured

cant ever see him and Bent forming a good relationship that produces a lot of goals.

Both play quite similarly for me, maybe a bit more effort from Andi but certainly don't think they compliment each other.

We need contrasting style forwards eg Bent/Benteke or Andi/Benteke etc and given our striking options I rarely see him getting in ahead of Bent or Gabby when both fit.

Well be delighted but very shocked if he bags 15 this season.

yet first of all ireland took too long on the ball, bent had to hold his run so was on his heels

Bent was offside I think. Ireland was waiting for him to become onside.

Bent had gone to soon as he was expecting the pass from holman, when holman fed Ireland bent had gone to far ahead and needed to check his run, cant really fault Ireland for this...

I understand people expecting more from him based on his reported wages but it seems a bit silly to argue over it when we consider what warnock and hutton are getting to do F-all, at least Ireland is going out putting in a shift.

not his best performance today but showed a lot of fight, determination and tackled hard. A lot of things just didn't click for him.

Think a front trio of him, benteke and bent has serious potential,

Benteke to win and hold up ball and lay off to Ireland and Bent making runs in behind will become a familiar sight this season i think.

wow what a miss from benteke

hernandez looks decent

Bent's been shit.

Not winning headers,

not getting in behind

not taking ball to feet

not good enough

big decision needed from PL

WTF bent? Jesus

ah hes taking the piss now, did the exact same thing 2 seconds later, not interested.......keep the ball

WTF bent? Jesus

great work rate vlaar and ireland, ireland harshly penalised

**** off weimann thats absolute shit mate, you didnt even look

we need to let the ball do the work a bit more, bannan or ireland was free down the line there and lowton just ran it

holmans touch - poo

sloppy ireland

GABBY I Mean

Brains failed me

i thought it was a joke for bents lack of input

Bring Bent or Benteke on for Weimann

hahahhaa

not bad, full backs need to watch the ball in behind closely,

marking needs to be tighter at set pieces and quicker to breaking balls from these,

Forwards need to show for it more and Ireland needs to get on ball more...

1 nil though,

happy

having watched the highlights we defo need to get Ireland on ball more, i see he's been involved in most of our efforts on goal in some way, Was involved in winning corner before goal, took two players with him for his pass back to full back to make space for holman effort and nice interplay for Weimann chance.... more of this please

not bad, full backs need to watch the ball in behind closely,

marking needs to be tighter at set pieces and quicker to breaking balls from these,

Forwards need to show for it more and Ireland needs to get on ball more...

1 nil though,

happy

holman still sloppy in possession for me.

Id prob bring gabby on for andi if stays like this until 60 mins

lucky there

what a goal that would of been, lovely ireland bent and andi

Good work bannan

the forwards simply cant take the ball to feet, its shocking

Ireland its rubbish so far

???

no one has passed the ball to him? Hes playing top of a diamond

Plus he's playing fine, more good passes from him than anyone else in midfield so far. The attack through him led to the corner which led to the goal. But Ireland always takes shit, I tend to tune it out.

Yeah cant really understand what people expect when not getting ball to feet, hes working hard to close down like the rest