Terrible first half? Come on
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Terrible first half? Come on
Yes, best all round performance of the season. Coutinho and Joe Allen had their best ever games. Skrtel, Hendrson, Lallana, Can, Moreno all very good. Only downsides were Markovic (I've never seen what many of you have seen in him) and Lovren. How we missed Sakho atbthe back today...his absence made Mignolet nervous again.
All in all though, superb performance and once again...great credit to Rodgers. Thank goodness we didn't sack him eh?
All in all though, superb performance and once again...great credit to Rodgers. Thank goodness we didn't sack him eh?
I wouldn't say he was excellent - there were a couple of moments when a positional error or an over-eagerness to commit into a tackle (e.g. the Aguero chance) definitely created heart-in-mouth moments. In the main though, he did well and continues his improvement, which is good to see. He played a few simple passes into the centre to an open Coutinho or Allen, to immediately turn and start an attack, so he definitely can look up and pick a good pass or two as well.
Encouraging signs of progress again.
Arguably the best we've played all season. Next up - Burnley on Wednesday.
It won't matter if we don't win that.
It won't matter if we don't win that.
I'll have you in front of the firing squad with talk like that.
It's a must win game. Loser.
Another thing - if Rodgers was slow in adjusting the game plan against Besiktas, he was certainly very quick and decisive in doing it here. After Sturridge came on, Lallana switched to RWB, but I thought he looked uncomfortable there and couldn't cope. When Moreno was taken off for Toure shortly after, I expected Can to be pushed into the middle with Sterling and Lallana as wing backs. Instead, Rodgers went with Can as RWB and switched Lallana to LWB, and left the rest untouched. That quickly solidified the right. On both flanks, Can and Lallana both pushed up with Lallana especially aggressively so, that we basically had City pinned back.
Was an interesting switch I thought. I don't know if things would've been different had City had more time on the clock to probe and exploit the weaknesses on our flanks, but in that period of time after our adjustments, we looked comfortable.
Was an interesting switch I thought. I don't know if things would've been different had City had more time on the clock to probe and exploit the weaknesses on our flanks, but in that period of time after our adjustments, we looked comfortable.
Lovren looked nervy today but held up ok overall. He has been muck this year but hopefully can play himself into a bit of form. Could tell Ming was not as comfortable behind him though.
Injured.
I could watch Joe Hart desperately dive towards Coutinho's shot all day.
Well, Coutinho not playing Thursday seems to have worked out nicely in terms of the league anyway!
Great performance all round, Markovic frustrates the fuck out of me going forwards, but he worked hard regardless.
I hope he's gonna be a second season player for us, he certainly has the attributes to be a success.
Great performance all round, Markovic frustrates the fuck out of me going forwards, but he worked hard regardless.
I hope he's gonna be a second season player for us, he certainly has the attributes to be a success.
The odds have halved since the wins over Saints/City. An injury or two for the Chavs today (Hazard, Ivanovic, Terry etc) and I'll start to sniff blood 🙂
If I win I'll turn up to the next "drinkies" and buy all the drink for the night.
Each time you watch it, it gets even better.
Best goal of the season contender surely.
Best goal of the season contender surely.
The defence was all over the shop 1st, and we were inviting pressure, they had more possession. 2nd half we played most of the game in their half, dominated them, had a massive amount of possession and were unlucky not to score another 2 or 3 more.
If you thought we were better in the 1st than 2nd you must have been watching a different game to me. But I'm not going to argue on a day when we spanked the champions 🙂
He beat his goal of the season contender against Southampton with another better one.
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