Georgios Samaras

Samaras was brilliant tonight.

 

Agreed. He played a very important part for us tonight - setting up two goals.

 

First time for a long time sammy but you played well. Could do with more of the same.

 

Not bad game, shame we have to wait another 1 or 2 for another performance like that.

Should put the memo out he's for sale after that one, maybe some teams might be daft enough to buy him.

 

Well I remember saying in a Sammy-bashing thread at the start of this season that he was one of the very few players we had who could cause genuine problems for quality continental sides, and he would show his worth in Europe.

Certainly did tonight. Defence, midfield and attack, he made valuable contributions everywhere, and set up two goals into the bargain.

And to anyone who says he is lazy or doesn't try...

 

Best performance since the January 2011 game against the scum. I thought he was great tonight and I honestly wouldn't mind if Lennon opted to go with him and Stokes again on Sunday.

Hooper being on the bench tonight has done him a world of good. I think he knew that he would have to go out and prove a point coming off the bench and his goal tonight was almost an exact replica of his second goal against the junkies back in February. It was another glimpse of the Hooper we've been dying to see ever since the end of last season.

Great team performance overall. Even Majstorovic had a decent second half

 

Spot on mate. Headers out his own box were as valuable as the goals he made.

 

I was loving his sliding tackle as well.

 

a good players imo just needs to get his head up and try be a bit more confident in his play i think alot of his bad performances are a nervy unconfident sammy that goal for greece could of done him no harm i just hope the fans get behind him cause we could use him when hes on his day

 

To be fair, he was fantastic tonight.

 

Why would we sell him when he plays well?

 

samaras always plays well in europe, its against killie, ict and other wee teams he struggles. hes the anti-boyd

 

The best i've seen Samaras in ages. He still managed to frustrate the * out of me though. From touches of class to looking an * within an instant but fair play to him he made a big contribution tonight. Keep it up big man!

 

Tonight was his best game in ten months.

Both assists were quality but that second one was especially so.

I'm not getting too excited though as knowing him he'll revert to type shortly.

 

he played well to be fair

 

Glad he saved his one good game a season for the Europa League tie that essentially means nothing.

Still, put himself about and played perfect passes for both goals.

 

Samaras must be the only player in the world where a good performance equates to 'world class' and a below average performance is viewed as 'disgraceful and the reason we never won'.

He was good tonight. He wasn't brilliant. Credit where it's due, he got his chance and he took it. He put a shift in so good on him for that, more of that please.

Is criticism of him allowed at the moment without it looking like I'm not giving him credit? If so, he still dallies on the ball too much for me. Sometimes it takes him 5 seconds to release a pass when it'd take others 2 seconds.

 

By all accounts he's had a good game tonight so - well done Sammy.

Let's just hope we don't have to wait 6 months for his next good performance.