I remember us thumping Maribor in the CL a few years back after a pretty indifferent start to the season. They were poor opposition but it served as a platform that season from which we improved. Hopefully this match will do the same.
Media going nuts about our performance but it means nothing unless we can kick on. We have to just be up for it Vs City, let emotion carry us through this one.
I can see the WC as something very plausible for VVD to protecting He is definitely driven by individual accomplishment imho It certainly explains most of what we are seeing. we will see how he performs at the WC Definitely his best shot as no guarantee he will still be in int set up in 4years as Z has just alluded to
We were poor for the first sixty minutes. Soon as we got the third we replaced, played football and the floodgates opened
@THE FOOL actually posted this as the Man City match thread initially too before editing (I deleted a couple of comments to keep it hidden too)
Scoring goals hasn't really been the issue this season, conceding them has. I didn't see the game, but we still conceded first and it sounds like Rangers had other decent chances that a better team might put away. So beyond a welcome confidence boost for Mo, is it really a systematic improvement?
They had 1 more chsnce that Konate blocked when the winger got past tsimikas (who had another bad game). Other than that didn’t create anything.
Well ...... it means we're closer to qualification, Salah's found his shooting boots and Bobby's got his mojo back.
Really pleased with the score and overall not a bad performance. An experimental lineup showed up the lack of the usual chemistry between players that we've become accustomed to with instinctive passes from a few, particularly Fabinho, to players who weren't there. Did I see at one point an offside call from a long goal kick by Alisson? Linesman flagged immediately and I couldn't see any other infringement. Rio going crazy in the studio for their goal was odd. Was he doing it for the Rangers fans who were in proximity? Thought it was completely OTT.