So why the confusion as to why we were pinned back
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So why the confusion as to why we were pinned back
They had approx 75% possession in this period, it's not about them pressing for fuck sake, there was nothing to press, they were on the ball. We lost the battle out wide, one that we were comfortably winning, not giving them a sniff. What caused Eriksen/Sissoko and Son/Dele to go narrow, it wasn't pressing, it wasn't upping the intensity.
Read my posts again, the question I'm asking has been repeated a number of times now and it's quite specific. If you don't know then that's fine, you don't have to answer every single one of my posts, it's not a pop quiz and there are no points on offer.
They pressed high, defended in our half, won possession constantly and began attacking us.
They pressed high in order to get the ball.
We didn’t respond.
That’s what happened.
Well you know I disagree with that as I've posted a number of times now. What's the point in this back and forwards? Move on mate it's boring now. I'm just asking a specific tactical question and don't agree with what you have responded with. It's no biggie.
I’m not making it a biggie.
You keep asking me the same question. Little surprise you keep getting the same answer.
I think they had to go narrow to shut off the passing lanes in the middle of the park, then you just shuffle across to deal with a switched ball. It's not a terrible tactic and worked reasonably well but we just kept giving them the ball back and that was our biggest undoing.
I'm starting to think he wants to get fired so he can take the Real Madrid job. Maybe Levy can work a straight swap for Zidane?
We played with a narrow 5 in midfield from the first whistle.
I don’t think we lost the battle out wide, so much as completely surrendered it. That’s not a criticism per se, it was intentional. It was exactly what we did against City.
The problem was as soon as the ball did fall to us, Winks shat his pants (under their counter press) and kicked it straight back to them. If we were going to play like that, we *absolutely* had to play Ndombele. He is the only midfielder we have that demonstrates any sort of technical ability.
I don’t mind Poch’s tactics. I do mind his selections. Winks has zero ability in that sort of play style.
Depressing. Liverpool did to us what we used to do to teams for fun.
It took Liverpool 56 frantic minutes to equalise. In that time they had nine shots on target to Tottenham’s one, 351 accurate passes to Spurs’ 80, 76% possession, five corners to zero corners.
www.theguardian.com
Liverpool’s beating heart Henderson is relentless in breaking Spurs | Barney Ronay
There were hugs all round from Jordan Henderson after Liverpool midfielder’s display of incessant purpose turned the match against Tottenham
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Probably SonnyQuestion please, slightly out of context but just so as I know. If Harry Kane is unavailable who is our designated penalty taker(please don't tell me Eriksen if he's playing)
Question please, slightly out of context but just so as I know. If Harry Kane is unavailable who is our designated penalty taker
Aurier.
And he’ll try and head it.
Brilliant reply, love it but seriously, does anyone know for sure ?
You idiots are really longing for the Sherwood era, aren’t you?
Yeah, there's not lots of top managers waiting to come in. Ones like mourinho would want far too much to spend.
If you look at which managers are doing particularly well in the premiership there's not many. Pep, klopp, then maybe wolves manager? howe? Rodgers?
I'd take anyone who doesn't think it takes "18-24 months" to integrate new players into the team. Bonus points if you don't continually start players who want transfers.
He warned us of a painful rebuild - it’s been made worse by the failure of the club to get several players out, plus they are now paying for the inaction of summer 2018.
Overall, what I’ve learnt is a sizeable portion of our fan base are just as fragile as the Woolwich nomads they mock.
It’s the end of this group and they can’t or won’t accept it.
I think our lack of key players at full back and DM are the problem. With two dynamic full backs pushing forward and a DM that cover well it enable the whole team to press forward with some comfort that they won’t get caught out.
Poch’s system like Klopp requires dynamic full backs and a highly energetic and smart DM. We don’t really have either, Sessegnon can in the future fill the left potentially but still leaves other roles. We have 3 number 8’s in Sissoko, Winks and Ndombele while Wanyama and Dier look like they have lost their legs.
I do have issues with Poch in terms of subs and using Eriksen but if we want to play the way we have for quite a number of seasons you need the personnel.