[rebel23]

Alonso was the only player trying stuff today, the corners were shocking but otherwise he is trying to be positive and you need that

the problem for Alonso is the tepid performances of the likes of Kuyt and Benayoun and Gerrard clearly not up to speed bar the last 10 minutes. Boro also have decent attacking players and saw too much of the ball

our problem was being too defensive at home, not flooding the box and not being creative enough out wide, that was before we went 3 at the back and hey presto 2 goals with Nabil running the channels unlike Kuyt who did bugger all