Holmes_and_Watson

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Chris Nicholl? 🙂

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He has people. Despite having people, he's had a go at them. Successfully. As he's got to them. As well as having people, he's also got an (or possibly the only) otherwise. Unlike the people he has, he wants to make it known that his possession of an otherwise is something of a mystery. Seemed clear to me.

I'd look at fitness after I looked at cluelessness. As CaM says, we don;t press as a unit. Extending that, we do nothing as a unit. Balls forward happen at random, as if blessed fro the heavens, and we try to stumble forward with it. There's no idea of how to impose ourselves on a game. No idea of moving into attacking shapes. We had instances from Sule, Dibling and Fernandes when they had space in front of them to run into. But no one to pass it to ahead of them, no nearby support and no plan of where anyone should be. So, back it went. Sule was there to be our outlet. Just like the Selles tactic. But under Selles, Alcaraz roamed a certain area where people knew he'd be to receive it. Sule did what he could when he could get it. TP and especially Archer should have been on the end of at least one of his efforts. Lack of direction and planning means that no one was near any of them. We had a few glimpses in the first half when you could see Will receive, look forward and pass. But that's us occasionally doing it right in at a slower pace, with a compact set up. We fall apart in attack, when that's tested. A good 45 minutes, to do some defensive basics. Will did well for the goal. But miles off being an effective unit across the team.

Post match interview on 5 live did just that 🙂 "Did the exertions of midweek result in the first half performance we saw today?"

Liverpool brought on their subs and tweaked their approach. To our credit, we had tried to get a few things forward before their goals. The second one took the stuffing out of us. We got ahead using Selles' tactic. When we were behind, we had nothing. We've had no real answer to that for years. Some positives in the first half. Mainly Juric picking a formation that actually suits his players. Having a plan and also for giving some of the many weaknesses, some cover. Good to see Will have a good first half. In the second, and all game we could have made more form Sule. We had a few passes we should have had people on the end of. But we lack someone like that, or rather don;t seem to train to really take advantage of it. Repeated self inflicted penalty for the third. We didn't cause them too many problems today, and our goal caused some shock. But we did a lot of the basics decently. We just don;t have the planning or strength to impose ourselves.

TP and Archer on there to put just that pass in the net. Yet...

Not in this squad.

Outside our transfer budget I'm afraid. 🙂

Crumbs! Steamy stuff.

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Well, that was daft.

You've not been in his presence. You can;t help but get carried away . 🙂

True. But when you consider that happened when he had to put on his shirt today, he's not done that badly. 🙂

Ah. Surprised he could see the arms past the blinding, annoying smile.

No. It was just a blatant push in the back. Not the major thing like the tiny tap that gave them a penalty.

Is that a reference to someone at Liverpool, or OJ? 🙂

Lallana seemed to forget who was employing him, when his dream team came calling. :-)

I think you'll find that we were otherwise employed convicting the dog in the Hackman deaths. 🙂

I never suspected OttawaSaint for OJ's crimes. But now you've cracked the case... 🙂

Fernandes gets the ball. But nowhere for him to go and no passes open. So, back it goes.

We are trying longer passes looking for Sule to be running in behind, while keeping some compactness at the back. But the passes are mainly miles off. We don;t have that kind of sharpness, or directness as a team, sadly. Still Sule and Fernandes up there trying.

Les missed the pass there. Not great.

Pet commentary team full of Liverpool manager and ref praise, now they are ahead. They are a disgrace.