That would be a hard call. All of our players have played well this season. Some I have more confidence than others and some look a little rusty but I couldn't name one singularly bad perfromace from anyone yet. I didn't watch game 2 only highlights, Astro above suggests Milner was motm. I felt Milner was also by a sliver the best player in game 1. Game 3 I'd probably give to Wijnaldum actually. VvD looked very good in 1 and 3 for sure but picking a player of the season would be hard based on first three games.
risk and reward. If there is literally no reward possible then the risk is pointless. look at Brighton player taking a touch and getting destroyed by Milner and two.touches later it is in the net. why did he do it. they had nobody capable of passing through us. alisson. why try chip the guy then knock.it 5 yards to vvd. to retain ball?.. first half he tries to beat Murray. why? to retain possession. is the risk of losing a goal worth retaining possession rather than smashing the ball down field?
How many times in the past has smashing the ball down the field only led to it coming back at us a few seconds later and then us conceding with people complaining afterwards that we failed to control the game? Many times. You can't control a game without possession, unless as I said earlier you play Mourinho ball.
why do lfc play.out from back? simple to draw 4 or 5 defensive.players forward and create space for.our own forwards. risk.v reward. a.keeper taking a risk trying to beat a forward following a poor back pass is not.going to exploit space. it's a pure risk to recycle possession.
If Alisson hoofs the ball then which of our forwards is going to win the header? Instead he played it to Van Dijk, who played it to Milner, who almost put Salah through. Milner's pass was too short, and Brighton cleared by hoofing, which led to us regaining possession, proving that pass > hoof
given how he can pass the ball not hoof it they can all get on the end of a good pass. however row z is the only appropriate place to "hoof" at. as vvd regularly demonstrates.
Just seen highlights on sky, what a save from Ryan from Firms header. Should have scored but did everything right really, kept it down and was solid contact
I’m sorry Saint but that is a mentality straight from the 70’s, where English football was full of brutes looking to smash the ball and the whenever possible There will be moments when a good hoof is required but that shouldn’t be the default mentality. We should be looking to build attacks from the back - if we simply reverted to clearing the ball all the time, we’d struggle massively because we don’t have a big midfield or attack who could win the ball.
yeah but you don't chip a ball over an onrushing forward after a poor back pass to only gain a tiny sidewass pass. you pass it as much as you like but you smash the ball clear when it's needed. chip the guy at 3-0 up.
Then we may as well as signed someone like Oblak who is an immense keeper but just hoofs the ball all day long. My thinking is that a big reason as to why we chose Alisson is because of his ability on the ball. If we suppress him of that, then we lose half the player we signed. We can’t pick and choose the risks he takes as it’s subjective. Alisson plays those lovely balls out to the full back but if he overhits, it goes out and we lose posssskon, or underhits and it’s intercepted. Fans will be then saying he shouldn’t be doing it either. The best players in the world are at that level because they aren’t afraid to take risks. But more importantly, they pull those risks off most of the time. If Alisson takes those risks AND constsntly fails, then fair enough.
I don't know where I read it, but Alisson has a pass accuracy of 91% this season. The next keeper is at 67% aka Ederson. I am in the camp of he needs to play how he has always played. We will win more matches with his style of play than lose. What people need to realize is with his skills, we can beat any high press employed. He will find his man most of the time and if we beat the forwards press, the damage to be done by our play in transition is massive. It is only a matter of time we click and start dispatching teams as ruthlessly as last season but this time round we have enough security at the back.
Completely agree. But fans should expect him to make a mistake at some point. Not everything will come off - and when that happens, we should want him to still keep taking those risk.
Ability on ball = 12th minute. Take goal kick and literally passes it to TAA on half way line. it was a beautiful pass.... pass it long and short, retain possession, start attacks.... great. try to be a baller out of your pen area and you will get caught. stick to passing it, leave the tricks for the guys in the other half. I quote klopp "not too cool" the guy responsible for our entire style of play wasn't happy with it... we train and practice for hours and hours to pick those passes out. but nobody trains for a solo run or a move nobody is expecting.... was salah off and running expecting alisson to beat the guy and pass it to him. nope. wheres the reward? the team is set up to stretch sides and be looking for those passes through the lines... thats where his ability comes in. press up and he will have the ball over your head and to our feet in midfield, sit off and he will pass short.
I saw that too. stick with that stuff.. leave the cryuff turns to lallana when he comes on for 5mins and leave chipping the ball over forwards heads alone. Thats how you win titles. I agree though... we have not "clicked" yet. I agree that his style of passing will enable us to beat high presses. Teams will inevitably sit right off and just not press at all so him sweeping up will become more important. a few games where he pings a glorious pass to salah ala gerrard and teams will just sit off in their own half. That will move our back 4 line higher so sweeping up will be critical. If he tries beat the one forward chasing the ball and play a pass he will be caught out.
