Best thing about this game. Iconic image and hopefully a sign of things to come.
Man City (A) 12:30 - EPL - Saturday 25 Nov
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Best thing about this game. Iconic image and hopefully a sign of things to come.
Good point earned today and totally deserved, Joel man of the match with Trent and Tsimikas played very well. Loved Darwin taunting Pep at full time Karma for him with Tsimikas last season.
I think my issue with Mac Allister is the final pass. It's lacking at the moment.
He's really good at the 10 yard passes, and most of them are progressive.
But that killer pass is just eluding him at the minute.
Tbh, if he was further up the field we'd see it more. I don't think he's an aerial passer, and would prefer through balls along the floor
On thing I have loved today is reading the various comments from the players on their socials. They all seem to think they played poorly but was a good point.That bodes well that the mindset is strong and the bar is set high.
Watching their goal again, it's clear to me that Haaland being able to collect an easy pass into his feet, was due to a mad decision Mac Alister made to step out of position to press Rodri, just before Ake dropped his shoulder and skipped inside TAA/Szobo.
If he was in position, sitting in front of the defence, Haaland isn't able to collect the ball in to feet inbetween VVD and Matip unopposed.
If he was in position, sitting in front of the defence, Haaland isn't able to collect the ball in to feet inbetween VVD and Matip unopposed.
100%.
No idea where Mac was going.
So many errors is that goal is was unbelievable, poor kick from Ali, too easy for Ake of all people to skip by 2 players, Mac playing dodgeball, and Ali possibly should've done better saving the shot too.
Raj is one of the best LFC fan Twitter pundits and here he makes a decent point highlighting Macca's lack of ability or willingness to switch the play to Thiago. In theory Trent should be the one doing it from his hybrid midfield role, but we didn't see much or that in the game – Macca's forward passing through the middle can be razor-sharp at times, but you also need to move the opponent around with switches of play and currently we don't have anyone other than Trent and maybe Virgil who does it on the regular basis.
This is one of Lavia's strengths BTW and likely part of the reason we were interested. We're always trying to pass it through the middle these days and there is not enough variation. Also our build-up was a bit dodgy.
I was thinking yesterday that if Thiago had played we’d won at a canter. RIP.
You mean like the gorgeous one he dinked over (forget against who - my memory is shot) for a goal recently 😉
I doubt Nunez even knows to be honest
Something to do with something Pep said about Tsimikas last time out
Something like Darwin saying to Pep : Did you like that goal then (TAA's) ?
Supposedly because of something Pep did to celebrate their goal in front of Tsimikas?
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