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If there was one thing you would want of a striker it would be to take his chances and score goals and yesterday John Carew did exactly that.
Also, if you there was one thing you could ask of your keeper it would be to not concede any goals. Yesterday, Thomas Sorensen did exactly that.
I've read in a few places that not everyone likes Sorensen but if a striker is given one chance to score and does, which ultimately wins us the match and the keeper then only has to make one save, surely the keeper deserves as much of the plaudits, if not more, than the striker who scored?
I've always looked at the number of gaffs that Sorensen made and never took into consideration the number of opportunities he has to make a gaff. When you factor it all together the chances of Sorensen making a gaff are far far greater than that of a striker scoring a goal.
For example, against West Ham we had seventeen goal attempts but only six of those were on target.
Of those seventeen chances you can confidently split those between five people, so let's say John Carew had four chances; he' scored one and done his job.
Sorensen on the other hand has had seven failed goal attempts yesterday. Add to that the crosses, corners and free kicks he has had to deal with and the possibility of a gaff have increased.
Yesterday he made zero gaffs and when called upon did exactly what you'd expect of a keeper.
So, for yesterday, Thomas Sorensen is my man of the match, simply because he did exactly what he was supposed to do and he doesn't get enough praise when he does.
Sorensen can make some awful gaffs in the past so when he's playing like this we've got to give praise and hope nothing changes.
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