Liverpool - post match thread.

[jonmcity]

How a team with our resources, can end up with a defence like ours is frightening.

 

[CrownPointBlue]

W

Spot on and nice to hear some sense being spoken in this thread. The pep experiment might not work but it would be criminal if us, the fans, not to give him the chance and time he needs.

We're giving him a chance,I'd just wish he'd use more common sense,play to win the game,ugly occasionally,and stop forcing a confusing philosophy on current players who lack the ability or willingness to adapt.

A pig with lipstick is still just a pig and if you try and teach a pig to sing,you'll upset the pig and frustrate the teacher !!

 

[The-Dogs-Pollocks]

you should have told that to your own club when they bought, off the top of my head:
Alan Brazil
Peter Davenport
Garry Birtles
Ralph Milne
Kleberson
Forlan
That cokehead aussie keeper
Anderson
Zaha
Bebe
Jordi Cryff
Falcao
Di maria
Bellon
Taibi
N'Galula
Veron
Djemba Djemba
Poborski

You noisy red twat

I am as far from a red as it is possible to be. I've reported your post by the way

 

[Blue Hefner]

9 minutes to go and Navas is about to replace Zabaleta. The cameras zoom to Guardiola giving Navas some last minutes instructions, which strangely continue for another 4 minutes.
So what were those instructions?

1/I want to you to bomb down the right wing and create an open goal for Aguero?
2/Tell Otamendi to stop conceding stupid free kicks when Liverpool are running down the clock?
3/ Keep passing and eventually they’ll tire?

Buggered if I know. Did Navas actually touch the ball?

And then, waited another minute and brought Ianacheo on. Why not both at the same time? I've said earlier, I accepted Guardiola is a genius but no one could convince me that those subs at those times were a good idea

 

[Adlab123]

That's the thing about yesterday, in that you can look at it from a number of different angles and come to entirely different conclusions. I simply don't agree with your assertion that we controlled it however. Liverpool allowed us to have the ball and sat back knowing we were essentially toothless. So you could equally say they controlled it. You could say we controlled the second half against Leicester but did we really? We certainly had more of the ball consistently in the second half but was there a time that you thought "It's just a matter of time before we score?" because I didn't.

More possession does not = control. More goals = control.
To get goals, as my other half says, "why dont they shoot". My answer to her is "God knows"
Her response "Shouldnt the manager tell them to?"
I am then lost for a response for that one. But maybe she has a point. We just dont have enough shots. The oppo usually only need one,!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

So which two? Getting rid of aguero ain't a solution. If you give the lad the ball he scores look at his record for city and in the prem it's frightening. Get some fucking fullbacks bring back our goalkeeper or a proper keeper replace vk and replace Yaya are what needs to happen.

Sanchez, Griezmann, Aubameyang, Lacazette, Icardi (who Pep had at Barca), Dybala, Bellotti, etc. None of those spend most of the game waiting for service a yard in front of the last defender, thereby making themselves unavailable for a through ball.

 

[deano ou812]

How a team with our resources, can end up with a defence like ours is frightening.

It's called taking your eye off the ball,should have been addressed a few seasons back properly..

 

[bluemc1]

If he is going to insist on passing about at the back he's going to need the best transfer window ever for us to make top 4 this year
That or he needs players there who can control the ball see a pass and won't flap under a bit of pressure, so if just go
.............Bravo:(...........
.fernandhino...Toure..Stones..Clichy..
Sterling.......Fernando.....Nolito....
...........KDB..........Silva........
.................Aguero............

Not ideal but can't be worse than what we are doing back there now

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

That's the thing about yesterday, in that you can look at it from a number of different angles and come to entirely different conclusions. I simply don't agree with your assertion that we controlled it however. Liverpool allowed us to have the ball and sat back knowing we were essentially toothless. So you could equally say they controlled it. You could say we controlled the second half against Leicester but did we really? We certainly had more of the ball consistently in the second half but was there a time that you thought "It's just a matter of time before we score?" because I didn't.

I agree with this. The early goals give teams the opportunity to sit in and get in shape to control us. We are currently veering between overcommitting going forward (Everton and Middlesbrough) and hardly committing at all (Liverpool). The number of teams we play who stay in it at 1-0 down and then start to push in the last 10-15 minutes of the games seems to be lost on us. We seemed unprepared to lose 2-0 yesterday and so didn't chase it at all, even though Liverpool were retreating for almost the entire last quarter of the game but they were 'managing the game'. Game management seems to be lost on this group of players and has been for a couple of years now.

 

[Adlab123]

I agree with this. The early goals give teams the opportunity to sit in and get in shape to control us. We are currently veering between overcommitting going forward (Everton and Middlesbrough) and hardly committing at all (Liverpool). The number of teams we play who stay in it at 1-0 down and then start to push in the last 10-15 minutes of the games seems to be lost on us. We seemed unprepared to lose 2-0 yesterday and so didn't chase it at all, even though Liverpool were retreating for almost the entire last quarter of the game but they were 'managing the game'. Game management seems to be lost on this group of players and has been for a couple of years now.

Agreed.
So who should correct this and how.?