Yeh that is the issue with liverpool, if you give them the ball and sit deep they have no idea what to do as shown by so many of their previous defeats to lesser sides. You try and play pass out the back football and they get their 3 amigos to hunt you down like dogs and then after winning the ball exploit all your gaps in transistion.
Genuine misunderstanding here, if you can clarify...
When you say we should sit deep and let them have the ball, how do we then attack when we gain possession if you dont want us to play out the back.
We defend on the back foot, with men behind the ball, then hopefully, dont concede....to be fair they looked like they knew what to do with the ball in attack yesterday, when we had 9 men camped in our own box.
Hugo has the ball....how do we now attack? Long punts to no mans land? We tried that too yesterday.
I cant see how you can sit deep, then not play from the back when we want to attack.
Liverpool didnt sit back, they came at us, so where were our counter attacks? Our counterattcking is terrible, and doesnt work, so no idea why people think we would have faired better playing that way.
We
was playing that way......you saw the result of
not going at them collectively as a team yesterday. We were not caught out by counter attacking swiftness, we gifted them possession, yet you say that was the way to go??
They had more possession, 10 more shots, 7 more on target, and seven more corners.
But we should have conceded possession?