How to keep up with City?
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If you're relying on City not beating Villa at home you're already fucked. Yes it nearly happened but it would've been a miracle.
How to keep up? Stop trying to compete on spending power will do for a start.
Or Brighton; that was the worst home result for me last season.
It was shocking I was there and at the time I thought this result could cost us as did Brentford away
It is getting ridiculous having to win virtually every game. Kindof ruining it. Even our greatest 80s side was patchier.
It feels like a growing differential between the top clubs and the rest. Certainly the bottom clubs, so the three promoted clubs for relegation?
VAR..... it works fine in internationals and in other leagues. I think any footie fan gets the call right after a ten sec freeze frame so dont get the fuss. Thats the frustration. Tell the ref if theres something game changing he missed. Ask him to have a look. Dont mess around with these innocuous fouls and crap. No excuse for bloody obvious hand balls though.
It feels like a growing differential between the top clubs and the rest. Certainly the bottom clubs, so the three promoted clubs for relegation?
VAR..... it works fine in internationals and in other leagues. I think any footie fan gets the call right after a ten sec freeze frame so dont get the fuss. Thats the frustration. Tell the ref if theres something game changing he missed. Ask him to have a look. Dont mess around with these innocuous fouls and crap. No excuse for bloody obvious hand balls though.
Leicester away was the most abject performance of the season. That’s the day we lost it.
I’m still a bit confused by this “pace through the middle” stuff.
Why do we need “pace through the middle” when we’re playing controlled possession against teams that mostly operate a low block?
What is that pace supposed to add?
How about losing at home to Palace? It's football. Logically City and Liverpool should win every game bar against each other but obviously they don't (City dropped points in virtually 25% of their games last season) and just as obviously the matches they don't win are to inferior teams, at home or away.
However the fact remains ... Villa were 2 up with 20 mins to go, 9/10 that would have been enough.
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Yeah you don't need pace through the middle but players who can beat a man and so disrupt the block and create space. With Thiago, Keita and Elliott we have that but even more so now with Carvalho. The more I watch that game of his against City in the FAC the more he looks ready and maybe we'll see more of him than I expected.
He’s older than Harvey Elliot - so if he integrates quickly he could get game time, for sure.
We had two losses last season to City's 3. If we had converted one of those 8 draws to a win, the league would have been ours.
When I say pace, I mean a player is able to run with the ball from one box to the next beating several players in the process, like Robertson does as a LB. As i understand Ox was bought into do that, add pace to the MF centre but has failed
That game was where we looked uninterested. Didn’t do a thing right. And went 13 points behind. Had we even tried in that game and actually won everything would’ve changed.
Nor did City.
I don't think anyone expected us to challenge for the title last season. At the start of it, there were questions marks about how injury had affected VVD, Mane's decline and the reliability of our best midfielders. Klopp was experimenting with Harvey and the team didn't have the right unbalanced.
It's brilliant we got into the title race at all but it was during this period we lost it.
Next season both us and City will have to build and tweak a new attack. I think City will have the harder job because their primary form of defence last season was the extra man in midfield to keep the ball and control the game but let's see
It's brilliant we got into the title race at all but it was during this period we lost it.
Next season both us and City will have to build and tweak a new attack. I think City will have the harder job because their primary form of defence last season was the extra man in midfield to keep the ball and control the game but let's see
The Brentford and Brighton games piss me off more. We were winning both. Brighton was 2-0 at home.
So? We had it on a platter despite our previous fuck ups during the season.
No, we didn’t. The title was always City’s to lose rather than ours to win.
Most fuming I'd been after a game last season. From pissing it first half and almost going 3 up but for the disallowed goal to completely falling apart second half and clinging on for a point in the end. Piss poor Reds!!
But that’s very different from “pace”, it’s ball carrying and making runs from deep - we have loads of those - Kieta, Curtis, Harvey, Carvalho, etc. and you can’t have everyone in the midfield push on line that or we’d be even more exposed.
We use our FBs to do it as well.
but that's a normal season right. You have your bad days. They were so few.
What a delightful scab to pick at! I'll leave you all to it.
Our best hope is that we start off flying and City take time to find a style/formation/rhythm. It looks like they may get rid of both Jesus & Sterling, leaving them with a lot of new bodies around. We have a team capable of 90+ points again. Stick to those basics then the biggest thing should really be ensuring we actually beat them in our head-to-heads.
Blowing a 2 goal lead at home to Brighton was a right kick in the bollocks though. Margins are so fine coming up against City and that one just sticks out for me.
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