ChicagoBlue
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Showing my age! Sorry! :-)The Emirates get it right ;)
Showing my age! Sorry! :-)The Emirates get it right ;)
Oh dear....i think you are definately reading everything from the dipper song sheet. Lets put this another way. Klopp prepped his team from pre-season to be right at it from the first game, with the intention to try and establish a lead even if it was a slight lead over everyone else. This meant going at it in all games (which they were) and from a few weeks ago the usual drop off in intensity was becoming evident because regardless of how good you are you cannot keep that intensity over an entire season.
Meanwhile ourselves have gone about our usual business, and now sit one point better off than in our record breaking season with one of our best players injured missing these games.
Didnt out play them, come on. After their 15 min gen-gen press and madness didnt work they had nothing to offer. We rightly dominated the game and shut the klanfield crowd up. We are not even in the busiest part of the season yet, and all the signs are that the dippers will be fatigued come the end of january, it was remarkable how much they dropped off in that second half on sunday
They were at home, the onus is on them to get the win and bring the game to us, it lasted 15 minutes !! Pep had a plan to try and establish a tactic to nullify their gameplan - and he got it spot on. We were unlucky not to come away with the win, but sometimes that happens.
Pep has shown how he will approach the games now at klanfield, as he said afterwards we just need to open them up more slightly to score in open play which i have every confidence this team can do, and did do occassionally on sunday.
We will improve when KDB returns but apart from that we're more or less playing at full capacity.
The scousers have far more scope and potential for upping their game as the season progresses.
With respect, that's nonsense. We're nowhere near the level we were at last season yet, as a result of the World Cup and the injury to De Bruyne. But we will almost certainly improve after the international break. We showed last season just what we can do at "full capacity". Liverpool may yet improve too although, unlike us, there is no precedent to back that up yet. To say they have "far more scope and potential for upping their game as the season progresses" has no basis on reality.
With respect, that's nonsense. We're nowhere near the level we were at last season yet, as a result of the World Cup and the injury to De Bruyne. But we will almost certainly improve after the international break. We showed last season just what we can do at "full capacity". Liverpool may yet improve too although, unlike us, there is no precedent to back that up yet. To say they have "far more scope and potential for upping their game as the season progresses" has no basis on reality.
Agreed we are only ticking over at present, more gears to come.I haven’t once seen us play to capacity this season yet. Will be scary when we do.
The dippers have been 100% from the off, and if that’s the best they’ve got, they’re in for a tough year.