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Oh an as for Owen, clearly Mask you do not and never have played up front. Lemme explain why Owen was good today.
Basically Rooney was dropping back and at times playing in front of the midfield, and not across the Croat's defence. When Rooney was getting the ball here, the Croats defence stayed where they were, meaning Owen would be against 4 defenders. Although a player spends the huge majority of the game off the ball, and when attackers are off the ball they are meant to find space, Owen was too outnumbered to do this. Admittedly for the first goal Owen had a bad first touch, and he has lost YARDS of pace and is nowhere near as fast as in '98, but he played a huge part in the first three goals, without Owen we wouldn't have scored them. Just because he didn't see as much of the ball, your often forgetting that although it is Owen's job to score goals, assisting three is not bad at all. I have three critisms of Owen, 1) He is too slow not, 2) He is weak as shit, 3) His first touch is dire. I think we should keep playing him because he is still one of our best strikers.
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