evening reds
following an encouraging performance today, it occurs to me that with Chelsea looming on the horizon, and our team playing their 3rd 90mins in 7 days, we need to rotate.
don't get me wrong, I want to progress in the cup. the longer we are in it, the longer we have a trophy opportunity available to jurgen when he has this team playing nearer to the way he would like. but, a lot of the lads have played their 3rd full game in a week. so who wud u play for the game on weds?
for me
..............mig
clyne..kolo..sakho..Moreno
..............allen
.......can........tex
....firmino.....lallana
...........benteke
lucas isn't as durable as he was and is more important vs Chelsea
milner and couts to the bench as both have been poor
skrtel has been everpresent so far
firmino and teke need games
maybe a sub app for studge if he is fit
thoughts?
Team for league cup
posted on 26/10/15
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posted on 26/10/15
If he actually did nothing I'd me more concerned but he's always looking for the ball and trying things, just not percentage stuff when we need it. Plus there are times when no other player appears on his wavelength, not sure whose fault that is!
Agree re-Lallana. It's been a long while since I wanted a player to succeed as much as I do Lallana and yet have so little confidence that he will do!
posted on 26/10/15
at the Coutinho hate. A few bad games and all of a sudden he's shiyt. Coutinho is the type of player whos form depends on the managers tactics and the players he's playing with. Right now we're playing without any width meaning teams will defend really narrow limiting the space for Coutinho to work in.
There is also a lack of movement and willingness to get in behind from his teamates. Divock offers absolutely nothing, there is no movement from the wide areas and no runs into the box from the central midfielder's (we're missing Hendo badly on this front). It's extremely hard for a creative midfielder like Cout to create when his team aren't offering him an opportunity to create. His last good performance came againts Villa and it's no coincidence that Sturrdige was on the pitch at the same time; a striker that actually knows what he is doing.
Make Cout the main creative midfielder in any of top teams in the world and he would become known as one the best creative mf's in the world. If Klopp doesn't sort it out then I actually hope he gets that move so he gets his chance to show the world what he is really capable of. It's criminal that he is being wasted at Liverpool having to play with dross like Divock and Lallana.
posted on 26/10/15
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posted 1 minute ago
at the Coutinho hate.
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You can laugh all you like but there's no hate here. Appreciation of his incredible talent but an acknowledgment that he's underperforming at the moment, with reasonable mitigation put forward. Not vastly different from your own on some points.
Just because people don't agree that he's one of the worlds best playing for the wrong team doesn't make it hate!
posted on 26/10/15
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posted on 26/10/15
Coutinhos best perforamces for us seems to be when lallana isnt in the team imo
posted on 26/10/15
Rap goes overboard in regards to Coutinho in my opinion but he does have a valid point. It is obvious to see how good a player Coutinho is but that's no use to a club if that's only on show for half the games he plays in.
Personally something looks wrong with him as his body language seems a bit annoyed and angry. Hopefully that's just with his own form.
I do agree that he needs players ahead of him who can either pass and move with him or make the runs he needs to create. Origi is woeful. Still a lot of time to improve but I'm not confident.
posted on 26/10/15
Milner is suspended.
Tex to play! hes not eligable for the Europa, so is a must for the league cup.
Enrique for left back? Give moreno a rest.
posted on 26/10/15
.............Bogdan
Clyne....Toure....Sahko......Enrique
.............Allen.....Can
..Ibe........Lallana.......Tex
.............Sinclair