The Daily Mail is reporting that Taraabt will make his first start today in the Carling Cup match.
He will likely play on the left. His preferred position in the center behind the two strikers. You may recall in the West Ham match last year he played in this area of the pitch and helped turn that game around. He earned the free kick from which Berbatov scored the equalizer and played some great balls through to the strikers.
He has great skill on the ball, but when we have brought him on as a substitute this year, he has run around like a chicken with his head cut off in search of goal. Hopefully, a start will enable him to settle in and demonstrate the distributing prowess he appears to possess.
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That is incredibly encouraging to see Jol changing things up. Taarabt needs to be given a chance to play through a whole game. He is young and has a good deal to learn, but has some imagination and will certainly be fun to watch. But now that he is in the lineup, we need to wait and see how Jol fills in the rest of the blanks. He could shake things up a bit too much by putting Robinson and Chimbonda up front and giving Robbie Keane a go at playing keeper.
We must stop listening to The Daily Mail from now on as Taarabt was not even on the bench. They won, however, so the complaints shall stop... for now.
Maybe he played for the reserves and the Mail got it wrong. Wish there was video out there of this. I'll be looking for highlights.
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