Ironball wrote:
Take him away from the right (Berko said Yossi was wasted and played out of position for his entire time at West Ham) and surround him with more intelligent movers, and I think you'd see something more like the Yossi we saw in the cup final, when he played more centrally, and had people like Deano to link up with.
Most of the time he was playing with Sheringham, Ashton or Tevez up front........hardly a set of unskilful dimwits.
Zamora was pretty reasonable - in fact, the only front player with an absolutely abysmal touch who played regularly whilst Benayoun was here was Harewood.
Fact is, most of our threat in the first season up came from our left wing - Konchesky and Etherington - not Benayoun. It was the way we played with aggression and pace that got us through rather than any sublime technique from him. Our attacking threat on the right only briefly improved with the arrival of Scaloni (wont mention his defending)
There were undeniably classy moments, and his best position is probably similar to Berkovic......but as someone said earlier, he really is a poor mans Berkovic and usually flattered to deceive. Always useful against Fulham though.
Even in the Cup Final - Yossi's finest moment? - how many of the goals were a consequence of his "creativity"?
Ljungberg gets slaughtered on here by some -- but both he, and Solano, were as effective last year as Benayoun was the season before.
Always got the impression that the effort went in for the cameras or when he thought he had a chance of getting a move to somewhere else.