Craig Bellamy
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1,898 appearances
13 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard 6 Jun
Craig Bellamy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And when you're looking at the marking here of Rhys James, of course, you know, we have to highlight the fact that his back's turned.
He's got one job, which is literally to block Gabriel, but it is difficult when someone has momentum running towards you.
And Gabriel in particular seems to be just impossible to stop, whoever you are.
It seems that way, but again,
There's got to be things.
You have to have preparation in order to stop what Arsenal are doing.
This is clearly what they're going to do every single game.
Gabriel is the main man who they're targeting in the box.
You've got to have a player who can deliver the ball.
But his aggression is, for me, what stands out most.
Patrick, what do you think?
But it's not just Arsenal that were effective with it today.
And it did feel a bit like Chelsea had done a lot of work on this as well in the build-up to this game, didn't it?
This is becoming a real trend, and we've seen it on every goal scored today, and probably the ones that didn't go in as well, with defenders trying to stop their runners, trying to do anything to block, to maul, to hold, to drag, whatever you can do to be effective, but actually a lot of the time, not watching the ball.
Is this the way that defending is going now?
But that is a problem for me.
Because the ball's coming in the box, you have a job, which is to play the ball.
It's not to play the man, right?
And that, for me, it's always been about that.
If you're saying my job is literally to mark this player and not care about where the ball is, I think that's a foul.
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