oddfellows
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biggest game of the season and we bottled it
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Chippy_boy
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I sort of agree but we're shite at defending so not sure it would work. In fact we spent the first 45 defending and it didn't work.Terrible. That second half showed why they can beat us. They put all of their energy into the first half, get 3-0 up, and then sit back, stay organised and defend well. And they can do this because they know we'll try and play exactly the same for the whole game. It amazes me that Pep is incapable of having our team stay organised and play counter attacking against them for the first 30 minutes. Let them run themselves out and then pass them to death in the second half.
Cheadle_hulmeBlue
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Look blues, it looks like the tie is over. But credit to Liverpool, they deserved it. Let’s be sporting about this, we are not rags.
fuck that. who cares about rags and beign sporting against that lot.
Fair result, we got what we deserved. Paid the price for doing what we always do at Anfield - shitting ourselves in the face of their press.
Perhaps the most annoying aspect is that our five ‘leaders’ - Otamendi, Kompany, Fernandinho, Silva and De Bruyne - were among the worst offenders during that horrific spell in the first half.
Second half was better (couldn’t possibly have been worse), but we still looked clueless as to how to break them down. Our only tactic was to get the ball out to Sané and hope to fuck that he might do something.
Tie obviously isn’t over yet. But realistically I see very little chance of us turning it around.
Horrible night.
Perhaps the most annoying aspect is that our five ‘leaders’ - Otamendi, Kompany, Fernandinho, Silva and De Bruyne - were among the worst offenders during that horrific spell in the first half.
Second half was better (couldn’t possibly have been worse), but we still looked clueless as to how to break them down. Our only tactic was to get the ball out to Sané and hope to fuck that he might do something.
Tie obviously isn’t over yet. But realistically I see very little chance of us turning it around.
Horrible night.
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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I think it would be difficult to find a City fan who's surprised at that. That was one scenario that had some substance to it. When you look at the teams which have come to Anfield and bottled up the game and got points it is just annoying. I think the tie's over and next week has cost me £40!
I hope Pep is not surprised by that, 'cos Klippity learned the lessons from the league game and bottled it up when they had the advantage.
I said it before and I repeat - Mancini would not have lost that 3-0! It's all very well adopting 'your style' but if you don't learn the lessons from previous encounters then they will be repeat performances for you! We bottled it. Even the MDC informed us that Karius had hardly been tested!
Poor beyond belief!
Dippers were never gonna emulate the tactics that EFC employed at weekend. Pep has too much belief in the patient, sometimes swashbuckling, cavalier approach centred 99% on attacking. With teams like the Dippers and a manager like Klopp it needs to be tempered.
I hope Pep is not surprised by that, 'cos Klippity learned the lessons from the league game and bottled it up when they had the advantage.
I said it before and I repeat - Mancini would not have lost that 3-0! It's all very well adopting 'your style' but if you don't learn the lessons from previous encounters then they will be repeat performances for you! We bottled it. Even the MDC informed us that Karius had hardly been tested!
Poor beyond belief!
Dippers were never gonna emulate the tactics that EFC employed at weekend. Pep has too much belief in the patient, sometimes swashbuckling, cavalier approach centred 99% on attacking. With teams like the Dippers and a manager like Klopp it needs to be tempered.
newfaceinhell
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Every player plus the manager had a shocker.
BlueMojito
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How fuckin disappointing was that. Not one shot on target. First half just shocking. Worst we've been all season. What a game to be so poor. Feel gutted.
Scottish Cityzen
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Insipid performance....fuck knows where that came from.
Gundogan and Jesus absolute passengers.
Even Merlin looked poor, never seen him get caught in possession so many times.
Why did Sane never take on the full back on the outside???
Come Tuesday I’ll be believing (having made a long trip down) but the biggest ask will be not to concede, are we capable of a clean sheet?
Gundogan and Jesus absolute passengers.
Even Merlin looked poor, never seen him get caught in possession so many times.
Why did Sane never take on the full back on the outside???
Come Tuesday I’ll be believing (having made a long trip down) but the biggest ask will be not to concede, are we capable of a clean sheet?