Are you in with a chance now?
Bournemouth post-match
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Are you in with a chance now?
I never stop looking for Linda...
Hue and effing Cry. The bane of my childhood, having a Mother called Linda who thought the song must have been written about her.
It was like Chinese water torture.
The point about a lack of cohesion would be much stronger if we didn't look like that every time we played this formation last season.
I know it's a broad analysis, but I think we look solid on defence because we have at least 2 midfielders shielding it, which then means we're useless going forward.
I know it's a broad analysis, but I think we look solid on defence because we have at least 2 midfielders shielding it, which then means we're useless going forward.
I think it's obvious that's a big part of it. The next step is to tinker and figure out how to balance out the side.
We're arguably not making the best use of Henderson and Milner if we limit their role but I think for now it's what the team needs.
I think we've too many players in the starting 11 who need to be on the ball a lot to be effective - getting rid of one of those and swapping in Firmino to play off Benteke might be what we need
Yes I noticed that. I thought all Brazilians were midgets.
Other moment of the match.
WTF was Balo wearing in his ear? ..
WTF was Balo wearing in his ear? ..
I suppose if / when Can shows he's ready to be trusted to take on the holding / defensive role in the midfield, Henderson will be freed to do more creative work up front. Having said that, Henderson could still be required to return to that role again at some point if / when Sturridge returns and hits form, forcing Rodgers' hand in starting both him and Benteke.
Is it just me or are they overanalyzing the hell out of the goal we scored and Bournemouths disallowed one.
Cant see why people think its a soft foul. He's got both hands on Lovren so that he cant jump. Its a foul all day.
Coutinho was offside and with the new rules it should have been disallowed. But I couldnt care less.
We got the short end of the stick with several incidents last season. Seem to remember two offside goals at OT among others.
But that new rule will cause a lot of grief if the officials dont even know how they work.
Cant see why people think its a soft foul. He's got both hands on Lovren so that he cant jump. Its a foul all day.
Coutinho was offside and with the new rules it should have been disallowed. But I couldnt care less.
We got the short end of the stick with several incidents last season. Seem to remember two offside goals at OT among others.
But that new rule will cause a lot of grief if the officials dont even know how they work.
I'm not that bothered because I feel we deserved the result, it was a close game, but we edged it, and deserved the win. If we didn't play very well and the got lucky, i'd be more concerned, but we had more than enough chances to win.
Attackers now all do what the savvy ones have the last couple of seasons though, they grab the defenders shirt & back into them, which seems to make most of them do the same in return, then they push or pull away & let go of the defenders shirt, and all the ref or anyone else sees is the defender pulling an attacker by the shirt.
I don't know if it is just me, but watching the writhing scrimmage of players, each desperately trying to follow their man around the box at corners (something that encourages all that Greek wrestling style grappling), I couldn't help thinking that I'd be very happy to bring back Zonal marking.
Agree in theory but I wonder if it's quite that simple in practice. I strongly suspect the rest are all doing it, and the top four teams don't seem to suffer for it. If we alone apply some kind of self-denying ordinance in this respect, could we not end up losing more than we gain by doing so?
I don't know. Alan Smith, for example, seems to have some personal campaign going against us in that respect - he started it with Skrtel about a year or so ago. Thankfully Skrtel seemed to minimise it in the latter part of last season but they're all at it again now. Is it coached or is it just ignored? Refs watch the pundits just as much as the players do - that helped get Suarez treated as a serial diver even when he was getting hacked down. We could easily get made an example of with all the holding. I don't like it anyway - it's not good defending - but we should at least be more cute about it.
Absolutly mate, should have scored. Think he said so himself after the game aswell.
Good for him if so - shows the kind of attitude we need, and gives me confidence that he can and will improve further.
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