Man City (A) 12:30 - EPL - Saturday 25 Nov
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Overslept and missed it. Seems like we were outplayed but we rode our luck to a draw after a silly goal conceded. We contained them and everyone happy with result?
Are we still a little intimidated by city? We always seem so tentative when we play them.
Anyway, big improvement on last season right here no?
Are we still a little intimidated by city? We always seem so tentative when we play them.
Anyway, big improvement on last season right here no?
The City players are going to be playing in League 1 soon and so why bother?
I wonder where that 'Emptihad' moniker came from 😛
We were not outplayed. That is silly. They didn't really have any clear-cut chances (neither did we) - just half chances for both teams. Ali made two good saves but those also weren't good chances where you'd expect them to score.
You expect the home team to have more of the ball, esp. City at home, but we always looked like we could score at any time. A draw was a fair result.
They did have clear-cut chances - like the one Alvarez skied over or Haaland’s flick from the corner at the end. Ours were more half-chances, although just one crisper touch or decision could have been enough for a big chance. We had a good spell in the 2nd half, wouldn’t say we were outplayed overall, but until Trent scored it looked like City were closer to 2:0 then we were to equalizing.
so on a scale of 0 to 10 you manage to score everyone between 5 and 7 even having to use 1/2s lol. Not having a go at you personally. EVERYONE seems to do it!
We were most defo not “outplayed”. We bossed parts of the game, so did they. They definitely edged it overall but not by much. Two very well drilled teams packed with talent battling it out to a standstill (almost literally for the last 10 mins!)
Nah they were not clear cut at all. Half chances. Haaland's was just a back-header under pressure and Alvarez's was from just inside the box with defenders and the keeper between him and the goal.
https://www.skysports.com/watch/vid...-city-1-1-liverpool-premier-league-highlights
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Diaz needs to get back on it then
We can't really because we have a small squad.
Just means Diaz now has to play every cup game as well as league game.
Why? We've got Doak and Gakpo.
None of who play on the left. It'd be a front 3 of Diaz Gakpo and Doak and then Diaz Nunez Mo for league games.
Come on man, you know that Gakpo plays on the left. He did it in Holland and he does it for Holland.
Doak is a right footed winger, just like Lucho. I know that he normally plays on the right but I think he can do a job on the left.
Worst case, we've got Szobo.
We haven't played him there since his first few weeks, it's where Klopp plays them. Just like with Mac, plays in a different position for us than he did for Brighton.
In any case his injury means a first team regular will now need to play more in the cups....I feel that'll be mostly on Diaz and with a small squad competing all on fronts, you can't afford injuries.
And Elliott.
Yeah, I don't disagree with you there. There's gonna be some rotation obviously.
For instance against LASK:
Doak-----Gak-----Elliot
Fulham:
Lucho----Nunez-----Salah
It's two home games next week, so no travelling.
But it's not gonna be smooth sailing from there on, far from it. I count 4 games in 10 days.
Ah yes, the goal machine that is Elliott.
Should we inlclude Jones Mac Grav and the rest of our midfielders who have never played as a left forward for us?
I think he meant for the RW rotation.
We weren't discussing that though, we know its 95% going to be Salah there anyway like it has the last 7 years......Doak will take up the other 5%.
The only other player that primarily plays on the left for us is Diaz.
Darwin and Gakpo are established number 9's for us now.
Fabinho was an established DM - who did really well as a CB when it was required. Both Gakpo + Darwin have played many games as the left attacker and would easily be able to switch into that position. If either have to play there it won't harm us badly at all (esp. since we have an easy run for the next few matches).
Note that most clubs only have 4 forwards that rotate anyway. We are in the happy position of having five - which is great when one gets injured as we've seen already.
You still might get banned if you pull this trick of starting a match thread 2 weeks early to get ahead of Brizzle
He did do well but at the same time we suffered as a team because we needed his presence in midfield and it wasn't until we brought in Kabak and Nat at the back and moved Fab back into midfield did we go on a brilliant run to take 3rd.
We need players in their best positions. If we don't have a player available in a position then we need to either look to the youth or change system that gets the best out the players we have.
Time will tell who plays on the left until Jota's back. If it isn't gonna be Diaz then I'd like Mo and Darwin up top with Gakpo as the 10.
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