Geez this discussion is boring and tedious.
How'd Zaha do tonight, Drainy?
Just back from the game.
He had a pretty quiet game, to be honest. Not all his fault, the game was fairly scrappy- both because Huddersfield like to make it that way and because the referee was really finicky, breaking up play to have a word with players when there was no need often.
His moment is very natural, finding himself in space fairly regularly, but town made it difficult to get the ball to him by having a screening midfielder and when he got the ball a wide player dropped back to help out Jack Hunt.
I thought his first touch was pretty good, and he seems very tricky, he showed good awareness once or twice and played one decent flicked pass out wide (when he'd come infield). He does seem to have a bit of the Suarez about his dribbling style, far too often it is straight at the defender and Hunt dealt with it fairly easily- the one time he went outside him, he left him and got a decent cross in, although it was dealt with easily.
He is a decent size, I reckon about 5 foot 10- good speed and balance, and although he looks quite skinny he is fairly strong. I have to say, in the first half he didn't seem all that keen to battle in the air for the ball which was disappointing, but in the second half when he seemed more fired up and won a ball from a decent leap. I was impressed with his determination, he kept trying even when things weren't going his way and won the ball back a couple of times high up the pitch. He also put a bit of a shift in defensively too, tracking runners and helping his fullback when their defence got a bit stretched.
One last thing, Ian Holloway is a legend. Genuine mental case, he had this weird cap on and when the fans were booing his injured player, he pretended he was going to make a substitution and took a bow, taking his cap off as he did it.
Behave.