comment by Mason The King Greenwood (U10026)
posted 1 minute ago
The defence doesn’t even look that much stronger. We are still easy to play through.
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Palace threatened us twice in the first half and then twice in the second half when we were over committing looking for the win.

we controlled the game. don't get your complaints mixed up. the issue here today was lack of creativity.

good fortune sees that ball land at Van Aanholt after good defending v Zaha and then DDG flaps it.

On the halftime show on NBC they were showing that when Shaw came back on briefly Maguire significantly moved loser to him to cover for him which used the huge gap palace exploited, why shaw was sent back on I have zero idea but if he wasn't Maguire would've been closer to Lindelof.

and even though we beat ourself here today, that ref was beyond appalling.

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Juan Bukake
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Find racism funny do yo... oh, you support Liverklan.

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Juan Bukake
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Racist 😡

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comment by Coutinho's Mirkin (U22212)
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Juan Bukake
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Find racism funny do yo... oh, you support Liverklan.
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Bukake ruined my carpet.

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Juan Bukake
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Racist 😡
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Takes one to know one,

Palace threatened us twice in the first half and then twice in the second half when we were over committing looking for the win.
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Look how Chelsea, Wolves and Palace played through us when they did attack us. We don’t look that much stronger than last season when defending.

comment by Mason The King Greenwood (U10026)
posted 52 seconds ago
Palace threatened us twice in the first half and then twice in the second half when we were over committing looking for the win.
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Look how Chelsea, Wolves and Palace played through us when they did attack us. We don’t look that much stronger than last season when defending.
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Is that due to the midfield not protecting the defence? (I haven't seen the goals/highlights yet).

comment by BruceAndPally (U8201)
posted 6 seconds ago
comment by Mason The King Greenwood (U10026)
posted 52 seconds ago
Palace threatened us twice in the first half and then twice in the second half when we were over committing looking for the win.
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Look how Chelsea, Wolves and Palace played through us when they did attack us. We don’t look that much stronger than last season when defending.
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Is that due to the midfield not protecting the defence? (I haven't seen the goals/highlights yet).
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Pogba.

It’s due to the midfield and the back four not being good enough. Midfield is obviously the bigger problem as it facks us in defence and attack having such limited options.

comment by Mason The King Greenwood (U10026)
posted 2 minutes ago
Palace threatened us twice in the first half and then twice in the second half when we were over committing looking for the win.
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Look how Chelsea, Wolves and Palace played through us when they did attack us. We don’t look that much stronger than last season when defending.
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when did Palace play through us? did you watch the game?

the only time they threatened were long punts when we were over committed up top

Wasnt it poor finishing that cost us?

Midfield is still tragic

Lingard at 10, ooook
Pogba as a dm, boooo

comment by Mr Brightside (U22216)
posted less than a minute ago
Wasnt it poor finishing that cost us?
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I think the fact that you scored less goals than Palace did was at the heart of it.

comment by Mr Brightside (U22216)
posted 35 seconds ago
Wasnt it poor finishing that cost us?
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We didn’t create anything to finish, so no.

comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Mr Brightside (U22216)
posted 35 seconds ago
Wasnt it poor finishing that cost us?
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We didn’t create anything to finish, so no.
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that's a bit lazy, James had 2 chances at the far post that Van Aanholt blocked, we got our heads to about 4 corners and headed clear over the bar, we missed a Pen, Martial was heaved down in the box when through on goal, and after going past Cahill was fouled as last man.

despite how bad we were we still created enough to of won that game

comment by Mason The King Greenwood (U10026)
posted 7 minutes ago
Palace threatened us twice in the first half and then twice in the second half when we were over committing looking for the win.
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Look how Chelsea, Wolves and Palace played through us when they did attack us. We don’t look that much stronger than last season when defending.
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I see this as a midfield problem more than anything. Both in terms of personnel but also tactically, too.

comment by United_kaz (U9943)
posted 2 minutes ago
Midfield is still tragic

Lingard at 10, ooook
Pogba as a dm, boooo

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this sums it up for me

and I love ole as much as the next fan but if i see any more of this midfield line up i will start to question him.

I understand we are short of quality in midfield but surely there must be a better way to make use of the midfield we have

Berba, it’s a midfield problem but the back four aren’t significantly improved from last season either, in my opinion. Not on the evidence of the first three games.

concerning thing is how long are Shaw and Martial going to be out for?

when martial couldn't move they moved him out to the RW and Van Aanholt knew he could get forward and they scored the second.

Who remembers the idiots that thought we should just sell Pogba off as well without replacing him?

comment by Martial FC (U11781)
posted 2 minutes ago
Who remembers the idiots that thought we should just sell Pogba off as well without replacing him?
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Ayew sure ?

comment by Mason The King Greenwood (U10026)
posted 48 seconds ago
Berba, it’s a midfield problem but the back four aren’t significantly improved from last season either, in my opinion. Not on the evidence of the first three games.
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I don’t agree about the defence. AWB is clearly better than anything we’ve had there for a long while and there were a few headers today that Maguire won in our own box that none of our other CB’s win that could have resulted in a goal or a chance for the opposition.

Lindelof did look poor today though.

It’s difficult to judge anyone with this midfield. I’ve said on a few occasions that i don’t really mind what happens this season as long as we see the youngsters. I know it’s only a few games in but we’ve surely seen enough of Lingard, Matic & Mata not really doing much to try the younger players like Gomes now.

James looked far, far better and more at home on the left, too.

AWB is better sure but as a back four it’s not a significant upgrade, is my point. The midfield is a concern but the back four need to do better, as I’m sure they will as they get used to playing together.

I’m not convinced by Lindelof and Maguire as a partnership. It’s not like they’re playing it out from the back well anyway, we’d be better off playing Smalling.

So, are results now finally matching your performances? I think so