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Modo said:
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Unbelievable, he's genius. Even when he's not at his best he''ll still make a telling contribution whether it be an assist or a goal.
Compare that with Rooney or RVP who when they're on it they can be world class, but they're off the boil they contribute nothing.
 
By the way, how gutted and uncomfortable did Dwight Yorke look when discussing our League chances, ahahaha.
 
peterhague said:
Sterling's first goal wasn't deflected, was it? All the commentators kept saying it was but I've seen it loads of times now and it looks like it just swerved a lot.
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They showed it a handful of times on the channel I watched and there was no deflection.
 
At times yesterday it seemed like we were playing a 4-3-2-1 with Coutinho and Sterling buzzing around Suarez.
 
LeTallecWiz said:
Sterling vs Norwich:

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Check out the piece of action at about the 7:52 mark of the clip. Sterling gets intercepted trying to control the ball and loses it in a bad place, and our right side is overloaded with a 2 on 1 situation in their favour. Instead of following the ball, Johnson allows himself to be easily blocked out and then takes the easy way out, following the blocker inwards and leaving the wide man free with the ball outside.

To his great credit, Sterling, who was already running to recover, made the extra effort to chase down the opponent with the ball and close him down, force him to the touch line, delay him by 2 to 3 seconds and stop the danger. Brilliant, mature play by the youngster.
 
studsup said:
Check out the piece of action at about the 7:52 mark of the clip. Sterling gets intercepted trying to control the ball and loses it in a bad place, and our right side is overloaded with a 2 on 1 situation in their favour. Instead of following the ball, Johnson allows himself to be easily blocked out and then takes the easy way out, following the blocker inwards and leaving the wide man free with the ball outside.

To his great credit, Sterling, who was already running to recover, made the extra effort to chase down the opponent with the ball and close him down, force him to the touch line, delay him by 2 to 3 seconds and stop the danger. Brilliant, mature play by the youngster.
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I think I pointed this one out in the Glen Johnson thread too. Great play by Sterling.
 
7 pages on Sakho, who gave the ball away once in 90 minutes of football, and wasn't at fault for either of the two goals we conceded.

What are you cunts on.

If you must complain - and really, why fucking bother? Then why not focus on Gerrard dropping too deep and inviting midfield pressure, our back four sitting far too close to the keeper for 80 minutes every week, a keeper who comes for the ones he shouldn't, and doesn't bother for the ones he should, Flanagan's fucking woeful effort at attacking the cross for the second goal (oh Yeah, I forgot, he's scouse, therefore he invented the yeast for the fucking sliced bread) or countless other things - but is there really any need.

Fucking hapless revisionsim on Agger, who's got better the longer he's sat on the bench. Typical. Cunt's been at gaulr for more goals over the last 2 years than ANY other player in our entire squad, and suddenly he's the answer.

But yeah, more importantly, 11 wins in a row, 5 points clear on top of the league and 7 pages of complaining about Sakho, Mignolet, Lucas, Johnson, fucking whatever you can think of. Imagine we win the league, what the fuck are you going to complain about then?
 
Ryan said:
7 pages on Sakho, who gave the ball away once in 90 minutes of football, and wasn't at fault for either of the two goals we conceded.

What are you cunts on.

If you must complain - and really, why fucking bother? Then why not focus on Gerrard dropping too deep and inviting midfield pressure, our back four sitting far too close to the keeper for 80 minutes every week, a keeper who comes for the ones he shouldn't, and doesn't bother for the ones he should, Flanagan's fucking woeful effort at attacking the cross for the second goal (oh Yeah, I forgot, he's scouse, therefore he invented the yeast for the fucking sliced bread) or countless other things - but is there really any need.

Fucking hapless revisionsim on Agger, who's got better the longer he's sat on the bench. Typical. Cunt's been at gaulr for more goals over the last 2 years than ANY other player in our entire squad, and suddenly he's the answer.

But yeah, more importantly, 11 wins in a row, 5 points clear on top of the league and 7 pages of complaining about Sakho, Mignolet, Lucas, Johnson, fucking whatever you can think of. Imagine we win the league, what the fuck are you going to complain about then?
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Boom.
 
At one point I said to the bloke next to me in the pub that Gerrard was playing like a 3rd CB. The trouble with that is, that pushes the real CBs wide and exposes them to pace on the outside. It's also pushes our FBs forward and exposes them to being got in behind.

We were at least 10 yards too deep throughout the second half. And I mean at least.
 
Frogfish said:
Amazing the number of Norwich fans actually SMILING in that pic and not waving two fingers and hurling a mouthful of abuse at him !
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I lived there for a couple of years and went to a good few games there - 'nicest' crowd in the uk.
 
Ryan said:
7 pages on Sakho, who gave the ball away once in 90 minutes of football, and wasn't at fault for either of the two goals we conceded.

What are you cunts on.

If you must complain - and really, why fucking bother? Then why not focus on Gerrard dropping too deep and inviting midfield pressure, our back four sitting far too close to the keeper for 80 minutes every week, a keeper who comes for the ones he shouldn't, and doesn't bother for the ones he should, Flanagan's fucking woeful effort at attacking the cross for the second goal (oh Yeah, I forgot, he's scouse, therefore he invented the yeast for the fucking sliced bread) or countless other things - but is there really any need.

Fucking hapless revisionsim on Agger, who's got better the longer he's sat on the bench. Typical. Cunt's been at gaulr for more goals over the last 2 years than ANY other player in our entire squad, and suddenly he's the answer.

But yeah, more importantly, 11 wins in a row, 5 points clear on top of the league and 7 pages of complaining about Sakho, Mignolet, Lucas, Johnson, fucking whatever you can think of. Imagine we win the league, what the fuck are you going to complain about then?
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ouch 🙂
 
Ryan said:
7 pages on Sakho, who gave the ball away once in 90 minutes of football, and wasn't at fault for either of the two goals we conceded.

What are you cunts on.

If you must complain - and really, why fucking bother? Then why not focus on Gerrard dropping too deep and inviting midfield pressure, our back four sitting far too close to the keeper for 80 minutes every week, a keeper who comes for the ones he shouldn't, and doesn't bother for the ones he should, Flanagan's fucking woeful effort at attacking the cross for the second goal (oh Yeah, I forgot, he's scouse, therefore he invented the yeast for the fucking sliced bread) or countless other things - but is there really any need.

Fucking hapless revisionsim on Agger, who's got better the longer he's sat on the bench. Typical. Cunt's been at gaulr for more goals over the last 2 years than ANY other player in our entire squad, and suddenly he's the answer.

But yeah, more importantly, 11 wins in a row, 5 points clear on top of the league and 7 pages of complaining about Sakho, Mignolet, Lucas, Johnson, fucking whatever you can think of. Imagine we win the league, what the fuck are you going to complain about then?
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Finally someone said what I've been wanting to say for a very long while.
 
gkmacca said:
Personally I thought Lucas did some good work early on. He faded badly though. But at this stage it's so important that we keep the space around our goal as clean and quiet as possible, and that clogging that we tend to do, the increasingly slow and seemingly aimless passing along the line, really is a nerve shaker. I don't mean the little triangles to go beyond the attacker - that's done better than ever at present - but what happens after that. Today, time and again, the options shrank and then it was as if a sacrificial defender was chosen to receive the ball with nothing on and two opponents bombing in at him. It happened to Sakho several times and it was absolutely needless. We don't need to revert to mad punts upfield, we just have to be more aware that our style should never require us to surrender possession cheaply in our own half. Lose it in their half if we must, but don't faff about at the back and don't suddenly start passing back when we're deep in the opposition's half.
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Couldn't agree more, we loved the hospital pass yesterday, the ball was like a hot potato at times and it was slung to the nearest red shirt even though like you say there was a Norwich player or 2 right on top of the player recieving the pass, its suicidal play, the options for our player in possesion were extremely limited at times but we carried on playing with fire regardless, i don't understand why we didn't play more longer passes to bypass the pressing or even the odd punt when it was really on top, thought it would get sorted at half time but no.

You do have to give Norwich credit but we really were our own worst enemies for most of that yesterday.
 
Ryan said:
7 pages on Sakho, who gave the ball away once in 90 minutes of football, and wasn't at fault for either of the two goals we conceded.

What are you cunts on.

If you must complain - and really, why fucking bother? Then why not focus on Gerrard dropping too deep and inviting midfield pressure, our back four sitting far too close to the keeper for 80 minutes every week, a keeper who comes for the ones he shouldn't, and doesn't bother for the ones he should, Flanagan's fucking woeful effort at attacking the cross for the second goal (oh Yeah, I forgot, he's scouse, therefore he invented the yeast for the fucking sliced bread) or countless other things - but is there really any need.

Fucking hapless revisionsim on Agger, who's got better the longer he's sat on the bench. Typical. Cunt's been at gaulr for more goals over the last 2 years than ANY other player in our entire squad, and suddenly he's the answer.

But yeah, more importantly, 11 wins in a row, 5 points clear on top of the league and 7 pages of complaining about Sakho, Mignolet, Lucas, Johnson, fucking whatever you can think of. Imagine we win the league, what the fuck are you going to complain about then?
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I've not laid into Sakho much, but he wasn't great yesterday Ryan, regardless of whether he was directly responsible. I lost count of the amount of times Skrtel bailed out him and Johnson, by seizing the initiative when both were either ball watching or flapping. He's done ok though, it's early days. And I agree re the revisionism on Agger, but there was a minor call yesterday for a bit more composure in possession from the back, which he might have aided. It's all ifs and buts though.

I thought Allen was excellent, Lucas less so though, but the issue when they both play (particularly the latter) is that they like to "sit" and whereas Henderson is quick to break from the back and to press and close down, they both tend to hold their positions and invite pressure. Gerrard becomes a part of that, have a look at the record this season for Lucas and Gerrard together in the middle, it's pretty poor. I don't think it's a slight on Lucas, just that the combination doesn't work too well, not the way we're currently set up anyway. I hope if Sturridge is back next week we see us revert to Allen/Gerrard/Coutinho, with SSS back up top.
 
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