Broadly agree with your points there KTF1.
Overall I think Rodgers deserves huge praise for the job he’s doing at our club, especially this season. The way he’s got us results with all the injuries deserves respect.
However, we have some issues that need ironing out. We still struggle against teams with a deep block, and we seem to have forgotten how to defend and take set pieces. It’s this we need to fix quickly.
I’m confident when our first choice full backs are fit we’ll offer a different threat going forward but we do need to work out how to stay defensively solid whilst opening up teams.
Not an easy task, and it makes me fear the worst vs Spurs. They are a team that set up exactly as we struggle against. I hope Rodgers abs the team surprise me again.
We've done incredibly well even forgetting the staggering injuries this Season.
I think Rodgers has got us playing above ourselves, we're overachieving yet many fans seem to see us as underachieving, in some games we could have done better but that's balanced out with some remarkable games like the Man City one.
Top six for me would be another incredible Season, to get a second Season top six would mean we can really see ourselves as breaking the old guard up a bit, an excellent team would have to have dropped out that Big 6 Club for us to have done it.
We can all moan and say how he's cokking it up each week but lets keep the credit rolling as well.
Regardless of the problems in the squad, my biggest bugbear is happening this season: Losing games at home to bottom half sides. Maybe time will prove such a description unfair to West Ham or Aston Villa, but we’ve now lost four home matches and haven’t played a single Big 6 team there yet. I appreciate that things are different right now, but one of the first things I expect of a squad is a siege mentality at home, a determination that any visiting team is going to have to fight like hell to get anything out of the match. Instead, teams are rolling up, finding it pretty simple and walking away with a smile on their faces without even having had a real match. I want players to be absolutely fuming all week when that happens and determined that the next lot who rock up are either going home defeated or in ambulances and I just don’t see it.
You’re going gone in a Leicester ambulance...
.... said Steve Walsh, Gerry Taggart and Marcin Wasilewski!
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posted on 19/12/20
Broadly agree with your points there KTF1.
Overall I think Rodgers deserves huge praise for the job he’s doing at our club, especially this season. The way he’s got us results with all the injuries deserves respect.
However, we have some issues that need ironing out. We still struggle against teams with a deep block, and we seem to have forgotten how to defend and take set pieces. It’s this we need to fix quickly.
I’m confident when our first choice full backs are fit we’ll offer a different threat going forward but we do need to work out how to stay defensively solid whilst opening up teams.
Not an easy task, and it makes me fear the worst vs Spurs. They are a team that set up exactly as we struggle against. I hope Rodgers abs the team surprise me again.
posted on 19/12/20
We've done incredibly well even forgetting the staggering injuries this Season.
I think Rodgers has got us playing above ourselves, we're overachieving yet many fans seem to see us as underachieving, in some games we could have done better but that's balanced out with some remarkable games like the Man City one.
Top six for me would be another incredible Season, to get a second Season top six would mean we can really see ourselves as breaking the old guard up a bit, an excellent team would have to have dropped out that Big 6 Club for us to have done it.
We can all moan and say how he's cokking it up each week but lets keep the credit rolling as well.
posted on 20/12/20
Regardless of the problems in the squad, my biggest bugbear is happening this season: Losing games at home to bottom half sides. Maybe time will prove such a description unfair to West Ham or Aston Villa, but we’ve now lost four home matches and haven’t played a single Big 6 team there yet. I appreciate that things are different right now, but one of the first things I expect of a squad is a siege mentality at home, a determination that any visiting team is going to have to fight like hell to get anything out of the match. Instead, teams are rolling up, finding it pretty simple and walking away with a smile on their faces without even having had a real match. I want players to be absolutely fuming all week when that happens and determined that the next lot who rock up are either going home defeated or in ambulances and I just don’t see it.
posted on 20/12/20
You’re going gone in a Leicester ambulance...
.... said Steve Walsh, Gerry Taggart and Marcin Wasilewski!
posted on 20/12/20
* going home
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