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OMT - Tottenham Hotspur Vs Liverpool
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seaside spur
Ronnie Rosenthal
As us 'oldies' know, we have history with this cretin of a ref, and it's all bad.
I have never been sure he knows what he's doing. Laughable Referee.
wiziwig
Steed Malbranque
The game plan was fine, although I would've preferred it in reverse, with the Argentinians starting the game, rather than again being asked to rescue a game in the last 30 minutes ...
The players gave it a shot but I'm not pleased with a first half 27% possession... For the first hour, we were awful with our ball possession, especially when playing out of defence .. I felt, Eriksen and Winks were not making themselves available to the player with the ball - it's called, hiding!
Dele was doing his usual of holding on to the ball for to long and Rose was needlessly hoofing it up field, all to often out of pure panic when put under a little pressure.
Couldn't fault the efforts of, Gazza, the three central defenders, Aurier and the front two, Sonny and Lucas...
Winks and Dele, were so very much better after Lo Celso and Lamela were bought on as Liverpool started to stand off us due to the new threat posed by our Argentinians.. We really should've equalised with the Lo Celso chance and, Sonny's chance was disappointingly blazed over..
It will get better but I feel it's a time to be patient and let's see what Levy/Jose can do in the next couple of transfer windows..
KTF ...COYS...
The players gave it a shot but I'm not pleased with a first half 27% possession... For the first hour, we were awful with our ball possession, especially when playing out of defence .. I felt, Eriksen and Winks were not making themselves available to the player with the ball - it's called, hiding!
Dele was doing his usual of holding on to the ball for to long and Rose was needlessly hoofing it up field, all to often out of pure panic when put under a little pressure.
Couldn't fault the efforts of, Gazza, the three central defenders, Aurier and the front two, Sonny and Lucas...
Winks and Dele, were so very much better after Lo Celso and Lamela were bought on as Liverpool started to stand off us due to the new threat posed by our Argentinians.. We really should've equalised with the Lo Celso chance and, Sonny's chance was disappointingly blazed over..
It will get better but I feel it's a time to be patient and let's see what Levy/Jose can do in the next couple of transfer windows..
KTF ...COYS...
Bullet
Andy Thompson
As Jose said in the presser, it is called game management. You nullify things, you stay in the game, you fight and keep the scoreline low... then you gradually open up and go at Liverpool hard for the last half hour, with fresh Argentinian legs.
Lo Celso should definitely have scored. And Son could have had a couple, it was a good game, a good plan.
wiziwig
Steed Malbranque
Yeah I saw his post match presser and as I said in my match post, it were okay with me he went that way.. But you need to have a midfield in a game of football and I felt ours were poor today...
NoLimits01
Goran Bunjevcevic
I’ve just got in and although we lost I’m happy with the manner of our defeat, it finally looks like we have a game plan that the players can follow and although they should have had a brace we were not bereft of chances either.
El Guepardo
Rafael Van Der Vaart
The new Saha and Nelsen. That window was the worst. We were in a great position in the league and so we signed those two instead of pushing on. Set the marker for most future transfer windows that did.
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
Quite proud of the performance tonight having come away from the game. Here’s hoping that when we aren’t playing a top side these players keep this level of intensity. I had Pool mates commenting on how we were winning the 50-50s which we just haven’t fine enough of this last year.
I don’t think, other than Rose, there was really a player who played bad, and plenty of players played good. Special praise to Japhet, Toby, Sanchez, and Aurier who looked like a top player out there and a good competitor for the big moments. We needed to be clinical when we had our chances but no issue with the plan - at least we limited Liverpool and created some gilt edged ones ourselves. Need to keep the level of intensity as I say.
I don’t think, other than Rose, there was really a player who played bad, and plenty of players played good. Special praise to Japhet, Toby, Sanchez, and Aurier who looked like a top player out there and a good competitor for the big moments. We needed to be clinical when we had our chances but no issue with the plan - at least we limited Liverpool and created some gilt edged ones ourselves. Need to keep the level of intensity as I say.
DeanoAustin
Jimmy McCormick
Very, very disappointed with the result given the chances we had. But thought we did well.
The game plan was excellent. You could see how José tried to nullify their full backs and at the back, first half, aside from the early chance, Gazza's save and the goal, I thought we were secure and always had an extra man to get a block in. Rose was horrible though and Eriksen was tinkle poor. We were also pathetic in possession.
Second half, we looked very good. Was very impressed with Gazza, Aurier, Sanchez, Tanganga while Lo Celso and Lamela contributed when they came on. Moura was also a constant threat throughout.
On Liverpool, I was surprised by a few things watching them in the flesh. While some of the passing and movement was frightening, the amount of times they played in straight lines and just looked for pace was an eye opener. Their defence was also very, very open when we put pressure on them. I was amazed at how easy it was to get to their back line at times. Finally, they can be cynical when they want. There were a number of clear tactical fouls that the ref should have punished with a card but didn't.
So, all in all, not too downbeat but it's looking less and less likely that we will get top 4.
The game plan was excellent. You could see how José tried to nullify their full backs and at the back, first half, aside from the early chance, Gazza's save and the goal, I thought we were secure and always had an extra man to get a block in. Rose was horrible though and Eriksen was tinkle poor. We were also pathetic in possession.
Second half, we looked very good. Was very impressed with Gazza, Aurier, Sanchez, Tanganga while Lo Celso and Lamela contributed when they came on. Moura was also a constant threat throughout.
On Liverpool, I was surprised by a few things watching them in the flesh. While some of the passing and movement was frightening, the amount of times they played in straight lines and just looked for pace was an eye opener. Their defence was also very, very open when we put pressure on them. I was amazed at how easy it was to get to their back line at times. Finally, they can be cynical when they want. There were a number of clear tactical fouls that the ref should have punished with a card but didn't.
So, all in all, not too downbeat but it's looking less and less likely that we will get top 4.
Probably worth keeping in mind that playing behind the ball that way against a team like Liverpool, who will dominate, means you get to focus purely on that aspect - I'll be more impressed if we can sort our defensive shape out in games where we are expected to attack more/play higher up the pitch
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Legohamster
Ian Walker
Am I right in thinking that Robertsons challenge wasn’t looked at because he didn’t get booked?
Glenda's Legs
Paul Walsh
Leaving the game aside, Liverpool fans were absolute rubbish yesterday. For a team that, bar all out disaster, has the league wrapped up, I'd have expected far more noise from them, but they were largely silent. Which was a blessing.
DeanoAustin
Jimmy McCormick
Agreed. For such a shower of sanctimonious fudgers ("this means more"), they were pretty poor. There were a couple of generic chants and the cringeworthy "Fields of Anfield Road" but that was it.
Thought our fans gave a decent account.
glasgowspur
Luka Modric
After all the doom and gloom before the game I suppose a 0-1 defeat might seem like a victory, but it was a defeat so I don't really get all the positivity.
Two defeats in a row, no goals in two goals, we haven't scored this year!
I also don't get why we are happy with the tactics yesterday, I'm sure if you go on RAWK (shudder), they will say klopp got his tactics spot on, press us, score and sit back and hit us on the break.
Why did it take until the 60 odd minute to change it? Once they scored our tactics and personnel should have changed at half time/50 mins.
Lastly, don't blame Eriksen, blame whoever is picking him, repeatedly.
The closer he gets to the door the less he is going to try, that's so natural and obvious I honestly wonder WTF is going on there.
Two defeats in a row, no goals in two goals, we haven't scored this year!
I also don't get why we are happy with the tactics yesterday, I'm sure if you go on RAWK (shudder), they will say klopp got his tactics spot on, press us, score and sit back and hit us on the break.
Why did it take until the 60 odd minute to change it? Once they scored our tactics and personnel should have changed at half time/50 mins.
Lastly, don't blame Eriksen, blame whoever is picking him, repeatedly.
The closer he gets to the door the less he is going to try, that's so natural and obvious I honestly wonder WTF is going on there.
afsoc4life
Vedran Corluka
I don't think it is controversial. I think he doesn't deserve a first team shirt on his current form.
balesleftboot
Sean Davis
Much better but how Tottenham-like to miss them two sitters.
Robspur12
Nick Barmby
Isn't that what we did at Anfield during the last match? We kept it tight after scoring but then left it too late to attack them. It's not revolutionary and the result was the same- we lost. Liverpool are so high on confidence they will beat anyone.
We done it quite often early doors under Poch but as we got better we were confident to take on most teams with our own game