Gary Gardner - including loan to Coventry

[PeterWithesShin]

I thought Petrov was poor today. Slowed our attacks down too often by passing sideways, or stopped them completely by giving the ball away. Also gave away far too many free kicks.

[villan from luton]

Petrov had a thankless task with Gardner, Keane needed to play on de jong and even things up. The jock messed things up big time

[barrysleftfoot]

  Petrov does'nt pass the ball quick enough, does'nt pass foward, does'nt move off the ball, does;nt track back.Watch him.He was shot 2 years ago, until he is replaced we will struggle.GG was poor today, but at least he tries to play the ball foward, and has a nice 30/40 yard pass on him.Did'nt make his foward runs today that he is good at, but i put that down to the manager.

[Dante Lavelli]

I thought Gardner tried to take a few too many touches on a number of occasions.  People seem to be bashing Petrov here but he - probably from experience - usually knows what he wants to do with the ball before he's received it, whereas Gardner seemed to want to have an extra touch, which resulted in him getting a bit swamped by Man City's midfielders.

Hopefully with a few more matches he'll develop the confidence to play the ball more instinctively.

[willywombat]

Sounds great with people posting he is like Lampard , he is like Brooking , he is like Gerrard  .. bloody hell , how exciting.

It's also dangerous and unhelpful heaping such expectancy on a young boy's shoulders. Like many before him, he has to fulfil his undoubted potential before he can be compared to such great players. Remember the Moore brothers...

Very true BDE, very true