Teach him the offside rule
I thougth we played okay against a team that is better 1 - 11. They next six games are key and if by some miracle we win them all then we'll be in good shape.
Didn't agree with the subs at the weekend and it's frightening that we don't have many game changers given how much we spent. The midfield lacks goals and that exacerbates the Sturridge injury.
Picking a settled starting XI would help.
Benitez got ridiculed for consistently tinkering. Brendan doesn't know his best XI.
Pointless picking players out of form.
Saturday's team selection was however disappointing to say the least.
I've slagged Brendan off in the last couple of days, which in hindsight was wrong of me. I'm prepared to see what happens come January 'cos we're in need of some decent recruits.
The problem is many of these issues have occurred at the same time. Losing Suarez, big injury to Sturridge, Balotelli's inability it seems to play up front alone due to lack of intelligent movement and then the poor form of Sterling and Coutinho in recent weeks. Combined with no signing really setting the world alight either it has been a recipe for disaster. We should just be thankful that Arsenal, United and Spurs still look as clueless as we do and City haven't really been climbing any trees either.
You simply do not go from a title challenging side with a bright young manager to mid table no hopers overnight even if you lose a player of Suarez's capability. Rodgers has to be given time to get it right again and all it takes due to the fickle nature of football is a few wins before all the critics go back into their shell.
Only playing Balo up front is clearly not working and I'm very surprised he's persisted with it after seeming to be adaptable last season regarding tactics. As for Lovren, I actually thought he was poor at the weekend, I felt most of the slating he was getting before then was unjustified.
Defending corners - It looked at the weekend like it's been decided the way to go is to bring EVERYBODY back into our own area. So even clearing the initial danger, the ball will always come back and put the defence under pressure again.
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We have no plan when it comes to defending dead ball situations
Wasn't Sterling & Coutinho in the wall at one point
We werent thaaaaaaaaaaat bad against Chelsea. Hopefully Rodgers will have bulk of the squad with him during the next international break.
I think we will find out in the next few games what chances we have this season.
We are playing teams we should be better than both in the league and the CL.
If we can get some wins on the board we can steady the ship domestically and make progress in Europe and things will look a bit more positive.
If we don't we will be either out of Europe or in the EL, and miles behind the top 4.
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posted on 10/11/14
Teach him the offside rule
posted on 10/11/14
I thougth we played okay against a team that is better 1 - 11. They next six games are key and if by some miracle we win them all then we'll be in good shape.
Didn't agree with the subs at the weekend and it's frightening that we don't have many game changers given how much we spent. The midfield lacks goals and that exacerbates the Sturridge injury.
posted on 10/11/14
Picking a settled starting XI would help.
Benitez got ridiculed for consistently tinkering. Brendan doesn't know his best XI.
Pointless picking players out of form.
Saturday's team selection was however disappointing to say the least.
I've slagged Brendan off in the last couple of days, which in hindsight was wrong of me. I'm prepared to see what happens come January 'cos we're in need of some decent recruits.
posted on 10/11/14
The problem is many of these issues have occurred at the same time. Losing Suarez, big injury to Sturridge, Balotelli's inability it seems to play up front alone due to lack of intelligent movement and then the poor form of Sterling and Coutinho in recent weeks. Combined with no signing really setting the world alight either it has been a recipe for disaster. We should just be thankful that Arsenal, United and Spurs still look as clueless as we do and City haven't really been climbing any trees either.
You simply do not go from a title challenging side with a bright young manager to mid table no hopers overnight even if you lose a player of Suarez's capability. Rodgers has to be given time to get it right again and all it takes due to the fickle nature of football is a few wins before all the critics go back into their shell.
posted on 10/11/14
Only playing Balo up front is clearly not working and I'm very surprised he's persisted with it after seeming to be adaptable last season regarding tactics. As for Lovren, I actually thought he was poor at the weekend, I felt most of the slating he was getting before then was unjustified.
Defending corners - It looked at the weekend like it's been decided the way to go is to bring EVERYBODY back into our own area. So even clearing the initial danger, the ball will always come back and put the defence under pressure again.
posted on 10/11/14
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posted on 10/11/14
We have no plan when it comes to defending dead ball situations
Wasn't Sterling & Coutinho in the wall at one point
We werent thaaaaaaaaaaat bad against Chelsea. Hopefully Rodgers will have bulk of the squad with him during the next international break.
posted on 10/11/14
I think we will find out in the next few games what chances we have this season.
We are playing teams we should be better than both in the league and the CL.
If we can get some wins on the board we can steady the ship domestically and make progress in Europe and things will look a bit more positive.
If we don't we will be either out of Europe or in the EL, and miles behind the top 4.
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