HolisticJim
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We clearly need to score 8 goals in the first half and then hope we can hold it together enough in the 2nd half.
Doesn’t it just, dumbfoundedGod. This forum stinks.
You see this line-up and it's like Ait-Nouri has won a competition to play for City for the day.Donnarumma
Nunes Khusanov Guehi Ait-Nouri
Rodri O'Reilly
Semenyo Bernardo Marmoush
Haaland
I guess it's this?
Too intense for Cherki, what a load of rubbish.
Pep will keep dropping our most creative player. Doesn’t matter on tempo.
Then play foden?Marmoush works much harder off the ball than Cherki. Guess that's why he starts. He's supposed to run his bollocks off. Cherki is brilliant on the ball but at Anfield we need hard workers (at least in the first 60 minutes or so).
Only time will tell whether Pep's line-up is good but it takes into account Liverpool's strengths and weaknesses (much more than our amateurish analyses on the net).
Awful?Closing down is all well and good. What about all the times he will have to chase after his first touch.
He’s been awful.
Harsh. He’s suspect defensively but amongst our best players on a technical level.You see this line-up and it's like Ait-Nouri has won a competition to play for City for the day.
Let's hope so would prefer Nico G in middle. No chance with PepWhy the fuck O'Reilly isn't at left-back when we could quite easily have played Gonzales in the centre with Rodri is beyond me.
Salah will be licking his lips not facing O'Reilly presence and a very poor defender in Ait-Nouri.
Fear the worst, hope for the best..
Then play foden?
And about 7th in the Sunday pub league when it comes to second half away form.We’re 7th for away form. Our only wins against top 8 opposition away from home are Fulham and Brentford. The only teams we haven’t played away in the top ten are Chelsea, Liverpool and Everton. All the evidence points to dropped points but we have to hope Pep has gotten it right.
Not the first time that a team selection seems odd.
Personally never understood the purchase of Ait-Nouri, and my Wolves supporting friend says he is poor as a defender.
Marmoush?Awful?
Fuck me, he scores every time he plays