Does Pep need to be more pragmatic away from home in Europe?

[blueparrot]

Yesterday cried out for Laporte and DeBruyne long diagonal crosses over Liverpools press to our pacey wingers/lone striker. We were dumb not to try. Not sure if Pep will ever change his style but he needs to as other managers will copy Klopp and he's shown you don't need great players to do it!

Pep should change our style to what? a style of one of the teams 16-20 points behind us? Klopp teams have been playing this way for years yet Liverpool haven't won anything.

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

Pep should change our style to what? a style of one of the teams 16-20 points behind us? Klopp teams have been playing this way for years yet Liverpool haven't won anything.

What klopps Liverpool does elsewhere is an irrelevance, how they play against us is what's important and unfortunately they've got us figured out at anfield

 

[blueinsa]

Peps tactics and style of play is utterly fantastic and has given us all so much joy this season with unprecedented success.

If sticking to it means we lose the odd and it is the odd game then so be it and no way should he or us change because of the odd result.

His style and tactics saw us thump them 5-0 at home and i see no reason why that cant be repeated next week and if it is then this thread will be rightfully redundant.

 

[blueparrot]

What klopps Liverpool does elsewhere is an irrelevance, how they play against us is what's important and unfortunately they've got us figured out at anfield

No it isn't important apart from when we get drawn in the cups there, if playing the way we do we win more than them and win the league then what they do elsewhere is relevant, then the 1 game a year at Anfield becomes the irrelevance it's just 1 game. Besides if players stopped making errors we might not lose these games.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Yesterday cried out for Laporte and DeBruyne long diagonal crosses over Liverpools press to our pacey wingers/lone striker. We were dumb not to try. Not sure if Pep will ever change his style but he needs to as other managers will copy Klopp and he's shown you don't need great players to do it!

You must have been watching a different game to me. We hit umpteen long diagonals to Sane yesterday. Alas it turned out to be Gael Clichy in a comedy Leroy Sane wig, cos he just ran back up the touch line towards Laporte every time he received the ball!

 

[ninjamonkey]

No. His entire philosophy is built on the belief that his way is the best way and when executed correctly it will always triumph regardless of what the opposition do. The second Pep stops believing that is the second he loses what makes him special. Liverpool is the only team around that do what they did to us, I dont think any of the likely semi finalists could do that to us. You can say he perhaps needs to develop a varied approach for that kind of opposition but he'll never be pragmatic, nor would I want him too. If we get the football we've seen this season with the odd bad defeat thrown in as a consequence against certain opposition then I'll take it all day.

 

[blueparrot]

Peps tactics and style of play is utterly fantastic and has given us all so much joy this season with unprecedented success.

If sticking to it means we lose the odd and it is the odd game then so be it and no way should he or us change because of the odd result.

His style and tactics saw us thump them 5-0 at home and i see no reason why that cant be repeated next week and if it is then this thread will be rightfully redundant.

Exactly, if the way we play sees us only losing 1 game in the league , why change and risk losing more for the sake of 3 points at Anfield. Just do what we do but do it better.

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

No it isn't important apart from when we get drawn in the cups there, if playing the way we do we win more than them and win the league then what they do elsewhere is relevant, then the 1 game a year at Anfield becomes the irrelevance it's just 1 game. Besides if players stopped making errors we might not lose these games.

You have to ask why players are making these mistakes. Far too many people are putting down the defeat to us cocking up while completely ignoring the reason we make these mistakes is because Liverpool press us and force these errors.
Therefore we need to come up with a system that can beat this and eliminate the errors, it's no coincidence that these players haven't been making these silly mistakes all season because nobody else in the league (maybe spurs) can press like Liverpool do

 

[malg]

He just needed his big players to turn up, and they didn't.

 

[blueparrot]

Therefore we need to come up with a system that can beat this and eliminate the errors, it's no coincidence that these players haven't been making these silly mistakes all season because nobody else in the league (maybe spurs) can press like Liverpool do

And we are 16 points clear, so those 3 points are no more important than 3 points against any other team. Its only because last night was a cup game, and we aren't even out yet. The answer is to keep the ball better and the players to learn to keep the ball under pressure better, but nobody does it as well as Liverpool in the premier league so the players don't come across it that much.