I'm no Ekotto fan but one thing Ekotto is, is a bloody good footballer. It's Ekotto as a defender I don't rate. Ekotto's first touch, close control etc is superb and for me where Rose really looked poor was that he struggled to bring the ball down, or he'd over run it etc. Makes me realise just how good our team is technically. The amount of poor balls that are played to Modric, VDV, Bale etc and yet they make something of them or we retain possession. Ekotto does that too, but Rose simply doesn't have the ability to be able to do that. And that doesn't make Rose a bad player, it just shows how far we've come!