Match Day Thread Vs Crystal Palace (H)

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fair play to Benteke. He had a point to prove and did just that.

As for us:

1. No creativity to break down a weakened palace back line
2. No idea what to do with the ball in wide areas. Nobody making the right runs even if we did manage to get the ball into the box.
3. No idea defensively. Just not good enough. Whoever is the defensive coach should be sacked.
4. No January signings is coming back to haunt us; if this was Klopp's wishes, he only has himself to blame.

Seriously pissed off right now.....hope I don't have to speak to the misses <laugh>
 
Jimmy Squarefoot said:
Apart from Coutinho and Firmino (in patches), the rest were pathetic. And Klopp deserves the blame because our squad is paper thin because of him. We have no options or ideas. Dropping 5 points at home to Bournemouth and palace ffs.
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Hes had 1 window so wouldn't blsme
klopp for thin squad.
 
Mweh...didn't see anything we haven't seen all season..

So: still need an entire first pick back 4 and an entire midfield...

Oh and if greedy maybe another pacey wide man...
 
RogerisontheHunt said:
Ok, we SHOULD win those game. Soton is the big worry.

Can we ban people for extreme pessimism?
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Ok, so lets say we win 3 and lose to Southampton. That means we need utd to lose 2 games and hope their goal difference is sh!t. City, well they can lose to utd and still have a game in hand to overtake us.
 
KENNY_KLOPP_KING said:
fair play to Benteke. He had a point to prove and did just that.

As for us:

1. No creativity to break down a weakened palace back line
2. No idea what to do with the ball in wide areas. Nobody making the right runs even if we did manage to get the ball into the box.
3. No idea defensively. Just not good enough. Whoever is the defensive coach should be sacked.
4. No January signings is coming back to haunt us; if this was Klopp's wishes, he only has himself to blame.

Seriously pissed off right now.....hope I don't have to speak to the misses <laugh>
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On point 2 - we have the worst full backs in the league IMO - neither can defend and they can't attack.

Point 3 - a defensive coach won't work. The problem is the personnel - were starting players like Milner Lovren and Lucas.

Milner isn't a defender so we can let him off. Lovren is ****. He's always been ****. He will always be ****. And it's for one simple reason - he's not a good defender. This is guy is a rotten apple of our defence and he's poison. For their second goal, he literally made 3-4 errors in the whole build up of the goal
 
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Magic Ted said:
Well, I cant say I didnt expect that, we are a strange team.

There are a lot of areas we need to improve, but for me, today and this season highlights our biggest weak area. We have injuries in midfield, attack, but the one area we haven't.. Full backs.

They dont offer much going forward (Milner and Clyne) they cant beat a man, and for the most part have little end product, as a result our width needed to stretch the opposition goes out the window, Coutinho and Firmino then get crowded out and end up dropping deep, and Origi offers no outlet at all when the defense is deep. Everything is going through the middle, in to two banks of four rather than having two players who stretch the play with chalk on their boots. Theyre our two first choice full backs. And they arent much better at the back either.

All in all a painfully predictable performance. We never looked like we were going to score once they got the second, there's never any urgency when we go down, there's a lack of imagination and there's too much emphasis on Coutinho to unlock the defense, no one else steps up.
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Carra mentioned it during the game but when we have the ball our full backs are almost furthers forward out wide and the opposition wingers come back and make it a back 6. Everything just gets packed with no where for people to run.

Need to just hold back a bit and the wingers will either stay forward but more and creates more space at top end, or they go back not picking anyone up and full backs can make runs from deep unmarked. No real game intelligence though
 
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RogerisontheHunt said:
So you're expecting us to lose to Watford, Middlesbrough and West Ham? Like I said Soton is the really worry as we've play **** against them recently, but I really think CAN win provided we play well.
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Its already in our disadvantage though. Its completely out of our hands now
 
Jimmy Squarefoot said:
On point 2 - we have the worst full backs in the league IMO - neither can defend and they can't attack.

Point 3 - a defensive coach won't work. The problem is the personnel - were starting players like Milner Lovren and Lucas.

Milner isn't a defender so we can let him off. Lovren is ****. He's always been ****. He will always be ****. And it's for one simple reason - he's not a good defender. This is guy is a rotten apple of our defence and he's poison. For their second goal, he literally made 3-4 errors in the whole build up of the goal
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You forgot pussy...a center back staggering off with a nose bleed...courage under fire eh?
 
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On point 2 - we have the worst full backs in the league IMO - neither can defend and they can't attack.

Point 3 - a defensive coach won't work. The problem is the personnel - were starting players like Milner Lovren and Lucas.

Milner isn't a defender so we can let him off. Lovren is ****. He's always been ****. He will always be ****. And it's for one simple reason - he's not a good defender. This is guy is a rotten apple of our defence and he's poison. For their second goal, he literally made 3-4 errors in the whole build up of the goal
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You slate Lovren yet Matip made plenty of mistakes today as well
 
Jimmy Squarefoot said:
He needs to use the January windows. He's had chances so no excuses.
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It's rare anyone signs anyone half decent in January. Especially when most of our targets will be at CL teams or teams competing to get into CL and clubs won't want to sell.

Yeah ah it's been great to sign 2/3 players. For all we know we may have tried to sign a few and been given silly fees or shut down right away.
 
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