Southampton V Liverpool FEB 22th Match Thread
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yes Sakho seems to be injured. Glad at least someone is bring rested because of injury...
Yep, hip injury
the double introdution of Sturridge and Balotelli will turn the game in our favour today
Southampton lineup available yet?
Southampton: Forster, Clyne, Yoshida, Fonte, S. Davis, Wanyama, Djuričić, Ward-Prowse, Pellè, Elia, Targett.
Substitutes: K. Davis, Schneiderlin, Gardos, Long, Mané, Tadić, Reed.
Substitutes: K. Davis, Schneiderlin, Gardos, Long, Mané, Tadić, Reed.
will it be the first time today, that finally our 3-4-3 will get exposed *taking a sip of coffee*
Would someone like to take a stab at explaining our attacking strategy today?
Is it possibly that both Sturridge and Balotelli are being punished?
Is it possibly that both Sturridge and Balotelli are being punished?
Battle of the benches
Looks like Rodgers is going for maximum ball control at the expense of the cutting edge. All the tidy, pass-happy players we have in the squad are on the pitch. Cutting edge in the form of Sturridge and Balotelli will be introduced in the last half-hour.
Coutinho, Ibe, Lazar, Sterling, Lallana all on the pitch at once has potential to be rather special if they can work in tandem successfully.
I think it is a pure counter attacking game initially
Rodgers will only have himself to blame if we don't win today with this lineup and we don't make top four because of it.
This team smacks of unnecessary smartarsery to me.
As far as I can work out:
When we get the ball our 7 attacking midfielders will simultaneously make off the ball runs drawing defenders out of position until mignolet strolls up the pitch to score completely unnoticed.
Couldn't agree more
Worried about this team ...
Yes and no imho. Balotelli deserves a start but you'd lose the pressing ability.
Sterling, Coutinho and Lallana will press like mad.
Sakho injured. Markovic has been good on the left before and Moreno has played a lot of footy lately.
Come on Redmen! Need the 3 points!
I thought Coutinho needed some rest
Our pace is very scary though, and we do have all our best available pressing players on the pitch. I think we'll be looking to press and harry the shit out of them in the middle and out wide, and then try to hit them with a blistering counter off the ball possession we win. Then bring on Sturridge and Balotelli in the second half to work on tired legs.
We'll probably be able to force them to cough up the ball a fair bit (Djuricic is new to the league, as is Elia) - just hope we can finish any chances we get on the break though. On paper, our unit of attacking mids and CMs is stronger, so hopefully we can create enough chances and bang at least one in until Sturridge comes on.
We'll probably be able to force them to cough up the ball a fair bit (Djuricic is new to the league, as is Elia) - just hope we can finish any chances we get on the break though. On paper, our unit of attacking mids and CMs is stronger, so hopefully we can create enough chances and bang at least one in until Sturridge comes on.
well that is a good view...that also means we wont really try to dominate the midfield. That is good thing for us because their midfield will dominate imo
I never felt Balotelli deserved a start yet despite an upturn in form, to be honest. He's just too unpredictable and right now, I wouldn't trust him yet to be focused and committed right from the starting whistle. Keeping him as an impact player off the bench in his current form works well for us in my opinion.
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