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On balance a draw is a good result, but it really was a missed opportunity. When I saw the team sheet with Alvarez in the starting line up I knew it wouldn’t work, out of position and making mistake after mistake, he gave the ball way that and ended up with Rodders being booked. Kovacic was the obvious starter but wasn’t. I also thought KDB should have stayed on, Haaland hardly had a kick second half and Kev was starting to find space.At this moment I don’t care if we win the title cos I really wanted us to put Bingo and the dips media in their place, we had the chance and blew it.
 
Sleeping_Easy said:
I get that but you also have to factor in our record there as well as the fact that a lot has been made of the players they missed whilst forgetting they still had a competent team



I’m all for debating the performance but some of the reaction in this thread has been over the top. Questioning of some of the players who’ve given everything and have been utter warriors over the last 18 months. The lads will make mistakes as Ake did today but let’s not get dragged down into calling players out and getting on the teams back
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sort of but a lot of us have been questioning the decline all season.. I for one have doubted the wisdom of shoe horning Haaland in a passing team...makes it tough for us against top teams as we have seen this season.. 8th placed teams down absolutely fine..top 8 you need 11 who can really play
 
pudge said:
It's not though, is it
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Just plain silly to worry about whether it's in our hands or not with 30 points to play for. It may be tougher this season with both Liverpool and Arsenal in the mix, and on current form Arsenal look like the team to beat. But on the other hand we're only a point off where we were this time last season and we were 6 behind Arsenal - which means that they're actually 5 points worse off than they were at this stage.
 
super_city_si said:
I think only salah would have made a difference out of those missing.
Kelleher is very good. Bradley I think is better than TAA. Quansah had fuck all to do. They had a fairly good team but we should have taken advantage of no salah.
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Robertson and Konate should have been big misses today.
Gomez, Bradley, Quansah and Endo all far from 1st names on sheet.
I'm trying to imagine us having to make such changes for a huge game with the likes of Nunez, Bobb, Lewis and Gomez playing and then performing anywhere as near a the dippers kids and fringe players have.
 
Jam Tomorrow said:
On balance a draw is a good result, but it really was a missed opportunity. When I saw the team sheet with Alvarez in the starting line up I knew it wouldn’t work, out of position and making mistake after mistake, he gave the ball way that and ended up with Rodders being booked. Kovacic was the obvious starter but wasn’t. I also thought KDB should have stayed on, Haaland hardly had a kick second half and Kev was starting to find space.At this moment I don’t care if we win the title cos I really wanted us to put Bingo and the dips media in their place, we had the chance and blew it.
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Alvarez gave up possession so often in the first half.
 
blueballs84 said:
Poor form to acknowledge that the quality of a legal team matters regardless of guilt or innocence?

More like extreme naivety not to realize that it does.
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Yawn.
Go and watch Mark Goldbridge. He’s Nited through and through you know.
I‘ll just keep going watching and supporting my team, as I have done for longer than I care to remember.
I have 0 interest in who our legal team is. Nil. Zilch. Nada.
League 1 or Club World Champions. Matters not to me.
My team is my team. The team I’ve watched all my life, in the flesh. Not on the internet. That’s what a fan does you see.
 
Zinchilla said:
Fine margins. Foden not squaring to Haaland & instead smacking too close to their keeper, Doku rebound falling to their keeper. They had their chances too. Cool heads were needed & not many from either side played with a cool head, which is understandable.

Momentum so important in a game & we didn’t score when on top in the first half, let them re-group, then Rodri’s yellow and the timing of the penalty meant it was going to be tough to walk away with a win.

So, take the point & more importantly stop them from taking 3 and move on. 1 point behind with 10 matches left. I’ll take that.

And fuck Neville/Sky who were desperate to talk up that penalty VAR check.
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I think Rodri's yellow made him careful for the rest of the game. He needed Kova to come on, maybe a little earlier.
 
AshtonBlueMooner said:
Yawn.
Go and watch Mark Goldbridge. He’s Nited through and through you know.
I‘ll just keep going watching and supporting my team, as I have done for longer than I care to remember.
I have 0 interest in who our legal team is. Nil. Zilch. Nada.
League 1 or Club World Champions. Matters not to me.
My team is my team. The team I’ve watched all my life, in the flesh. Not on the internet. That’s what a fan does you see.
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Congratulations?
 
Honestly the next time people go on the media thread to say about how shite they treat us they want to check this thread as its way more disrespectful, yeah we had an off day BUT we didnt lose and we are still deep in three competitions, given what we did last year and where we are atm the disrespect right here is way worse than anything the fail or any of the other shite come out with.
 
Beanhead said:
Great goals, are just that, great goals.. Rodri scored one to win the Champions league and secure a treble in May after clawing back arsenal in the league. So I don’t really see your point.
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mancboy said:
98th min goal for the dippers last week and late goal for the arse yest, theyve got lucky just like us, wouldnt say theyve workf it out per se
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that's my point, they are winning by hook or by crook. Just when you think they've dropped points they find the reserves to nick it.
 
A huge bollock dropped today in choosing to slow down play and tempo in the first half when well on top and comfortable against a vastly weakened dippers team. Came back to bite us and could have easily lost by 2 or 3.
But that second half performance was one of the worst I've seen a city team produce for a long time with arguably our strongest side out and most rested mid week. Absolutely gutless from too many today going hiding and shying from the ball for most of the second half.
We cant have any complaints if we dont win the league with it being mid March and us having 3/15 points against other teams in the top 5.
 
Tolmie scores said:
But realistically.....let's have a deep analysis of what we are good at v where our current weaknesses lie...
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Analysis? Nothing we can do to change the team but we're just 1 point off where we were after 28 games last season, and at that point we were 6 behind Arsenal. Now we're only 1 behind them so I'd say we're probably better off than we were at the same stage; we certainly don't have a 6 point gap to make up.
 
BolinCell said:
that's my point, they are winning by hook or by crook. Just when you think they've dropped points they find the reserves to nick it.
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You mean like we did against the geordies? It happens doesnt mean theyve worked anything out
 
The weakest link in Liverpool's team was the right side of their defence (two youngsters), and we did little to create chances from there before subbing in Doku. Foden should have started on the left wing and Alvarez, or better Nunes, on the right wing.

We made a similar mistake last season when Milner played at RB and we created nothing from his side.

The current construction of our midfield is not good enough in the big games. The absence of Gundo and Grealish leaves us a bit lightweight in midfield.

Stones does really well for a CB but he isn't a proper midfielder. He should be behind or next to Rodri in big games, not ahead of him, as there is too much space for the opposition to run into.

Another problem today was that Bernardo isn't in top form right now.

On paper we had a much better team today. But Kevin and Haaland are understandably a bit inconsistent after the injuries, Bernardo isn't in top form either, Alvarez isn't a natural option on the left, some of our defenders are still making mistakes...

So, it's vital that all of Haaland, KDB, Bernardo and Grealish hit form after the international break. Will be difficult to win trophies without them playing at their best. Also, the new players should contribute more, the likes of Gvardiol, Kocacic, Nunes and Doku.
 
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