post match - Swansea

[Hansern]

You get certain things right but let's not go overboard.
The scary bit is that you actually said that he'd start off well and then turn shit

His performances against Everton and Arsenal were hardly shite. Not many believed he would have played 19 games already.
All in all a good free transfer imho, as I said last summer.

 

[rurikbird]

Goals here: http://goal.lfc.vn/liverpool-swansea-hd-s14-w27/

Watching their second goal again makes me mad and want to kick something. It starts with Johnson actually, as he has eyes and hands on Bony at the start of the sequence. Agger is covering Ashley Williams. Just before the kick's taken, Bony starts making his move, moving inwards to where Agger is watching while Williams starts to move outwards; basically they move in opposite directions, interchanging their starting positions.

Here's where it breaks down for us, as Johnson seems to be playing zone and Agger seems to be playing man-to-man; Johnson hangs back to cover Williams, thinking he's handed over to Agger, while Agger follows Williams instead of covering Bony, despite Bony clearly being in his peripheral vision when he moved into his zone. And then he's still running to the back when the ball's clearly going to end short in the space vacated by him. End result, two guys on Williams, none on Bony, free header, and Skrtel is luckless to get the last touch. Maybe you could blame Skrtel for playing everyone onside when he was guarding his man as the kick was taken, but still, the more fundamental problem is what happened between Johnson and Agger there.

As for the first goal, Henderson is clearly not doing this job there - he should be the one to pick up Shelvey in that scenario but he was so deep in our own box marking air that there was no chance for him to recover once Dyer had laid off the ball. Gerrard's actually blameless in that goal as he was picking up and guarding against Dyer dribbling into the box.

This is not to absolve Gerrard and Skrtel from for our WTF defence yesterday, mind - they were as bad as everyone else in that department. Those two goals though, ironically, had little to do with them IMO.

Other that Skrtel earning the needless free-kick in the first place.

Great analysis though.

 

[doctor_mac]

Other that Skrtel earning the needless free-kick in the first place.

Great analysis though.

Yeah, it was a stupid FK and a silly yellow.

 

[Modo]

 

[nealmac]

http://englishforeveryone.org/Topics/Reading-Comprehension.htm

You're just being silly now.

You seem to be one of those "every foul is a yellow" people. Pulling a shirt isn't a bookable offence. And just because it happened in the box doesn't make it any different.

 

[Frogfish]

You're just being silly now.

You seem to be one of those "every foul is a yellow" people. Pulling a shirt isn't a bookable offence. And just because it happened in the box doesn't make it any different.

Nah, sorry for that. I'm not really but I was in a foul mood that day due to some twat trying to get his company to welch on $8k they owed me. A call to London got him sorted and I'm smiling and back to 'normal' now, for whatever that is worth !