Rubin Kazan vs Liverpool Match Thread
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3 wins in a row will do that to you. Hope we can make it 4 on the trot on Sunday.
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Your son looks delighted to meet him.My son and the matchwinner 🙂
I know it was only Rubin Kazan or FC Rubin or whatever they're called, but that brutal domination we served up was very encouraging. As we improve our finishing I can see us really battering teams from pillar to post.
I absolutely love how he calls our players "guys" and just smiles thinking about them.
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Thank God for that ! Having lived in Nigeria for 5 years I was embarrassed that I seemed to have pronounced it wrong. Happy to see that rectified.
Hell, with a name like that he should quit football and go straight into internet auctioning.
Maybe it's the player's personal choice. Micah Richards' dad said once he intended his son's Christian name to be pronounced "Meekah" but the player himself has decided he prefers "Mykah" (which is the usual pronunciation in English - it's a Biblical name originally).
The range of different pronunciations of "Ibe" in the media is quite wide. Most get it right these days (amazingly enough) but some say it as Modo's friend did, I recently heard that dumb bunny Hartson pronounce it "Ibby" and just this morning on the radio John Cross - who was pretty complimentary about us as it happens - was giving it "Eye-bee".
The range of different pronunciations of "Ibe" in the media is quite wide. Most get it right these days (amazingly enough) but some say it as Modo's friend did, I recently heard that dumb bunny Hartson pronounce it "Ibby" and just this morning on the radio John Cross - who was pretty complimentary about us as it happens - was giving it "Eye-bee".
As we've being saying for a long long time (minus the suarez season), we've got to do more in the final 3rd. We knock it around comfortably enough, just as we did under Rodgers, but we've got to be creating clear cut chances. That seems to be the only bit not really improving under Klopp yet, I'm sure it will over time. I feel comfortable enough when other teams are attacking us, or have the ball, under Klopp, but when we attack I don't really feel like anything is going to happen and it'll just be recycled eventually.
We're soooo much better at winning the ball back, though, and there were a few clear cut chances last night. They sat back and defended, so it is always going to be difficult to open up teams like that. Credit to Rubin, they defended really well.
I think that's how the majority of teams are going to set up against us now - they'll just sit back knowing we can't really do them too much harm (at the moment), let us have 70% of the ball, then try and hit us with a quick counter/longball and/or go for a bore draw. Much like Barca have faced for years. But they have the players to pull defences out of position when they're doing that.
We're going to see a lot of games under Klopp I feel where we're going to see attack vs defend for 90mins with a lot of frustration that we do don't really create too much because of a packed defence at the other end.
Hmm maybe. Perhaps not, though. There's still a lot of teams in the league that will fancy their chances against us. One of them in Crystal Palace this weekend no less. There's no certs anymore in the league and teams feel they can get points anywhere. Look at how West Ham keep going away to places and doing well. Counter would be the way to stifle us at the moment, you're right, but I don't think most teams will park the bus. I'm hopeful they won't anyway, because we haven't been able to break down teams like that for about 10 years.
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