Match Day Thread 2017/18 Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

Looked at from the opposition point of view, I'm not sure how you would set up against our front 3. Hoping they all have a bad day isn't much of a strategy though.

 

For me that is a good question but one thats been answered by several sides

1. Roma decided to press very high. It worked for 20mins TBH. Our midfield is fairly poor at ball retention and we gave it away too much. It was a 50/50 type game and they had one good chance

2. Roma played 3 v 3 at the back with two wing backs pushed right on to stop our full backs pushing on. Once we figured this out we just played long to the wide areas and salah and mane had a field day.

if yuo take those tow isseus and you apply the following:

1. Press only in own half. Let LFC CBs have it.

2. play 4 at back and leave no gaps, don't push full backs on unless at right time (ie you have ball and lfc have retreated)

3. focus on hitting salah and the like the minute the ball arrives. no time to settle on it.

We have seen several sides sit deep v lfc and nullify our forwards..... The issue is where do you get salah to play, centrally or push him out wide right collecting nothing balls and recycling. Give him that space and no space inside and no sapce to run into.

Its not about hoping our forwards don't fire its about guiding them into less dangerous areas to get the ball and most of all stopping that direct ball towards salah as any time there any sort of race for it he is winning it and setting us up.

Its not classic hoofer play as hes not competing aerially. its a long ball for him to run onto in channels and if you leave gaps he will run you. we simply beat the press by doing what lesser sides do to us. bypass midfield or midfield just look for the instant ball themselves.

 

that will not go well.

If i had anyone going i would strongly advise to go form airport direct to stadium and back in some offical way and do NOT be anywhere in rome and especially wear no colours.

 

The visiting supporters coaches are parked on a tree lined avenue, the stadium is surrounded by trees and their ultras( **** houses)can easily hide hide and wait, just like they did in 84 because the layout of the area surrounding the stadium has remained the same.
So even getting coached from the airport to the stadium and back is dodgy as ****.

 

well that's up to the filth to patrol.

If anyone thinks there's any safe walking route they are nuts.

 

The "filth" that do patrol around the Stadio Olimpico are themselves Roma supporters and either turn a blind eye or get involved themselves.

I know it's only the Fail but they tell it like it is for visiting supporters at Roma.

Why supporters face danger in Rome... Roma ultras run riot in the capital and have a history of violence against Liverpool fans ahead of their visit to the Stadio Olimpico

• Liverpool visit Roma for their Champions League semi-final second leg clash
• Roma fans have been charged with violent disorder for attack on Liverpool fan
• Liverpool supporters were attacked after the 1984 European Cup final in Rome
• Roma's ultras are fast gaining infamy in Italy for a series of violent incidents

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...danger-Rome-Roma-ultras-run-riot-capital.html

 

Anyone going to the away leg needs their head chewing off!

 

If you have a LFCTV Go account this commentary is good

 

Not news, the Roma Ultras are possibly the worst scumbags in European football and have been for decades, their team was **** thankfully for much of that time, and not in the CL

 

All well and good but does the Editor know what the definition of his job is... or at least his assistant editors?

 

Suspended without pay I hope, poxy scumbag, pity the editor wont send him to Liverpool in a cab

 

Create a needless ****up through his own laziness then award himself a massive bonus for ordering people to clean it up?

#responsibility

 

+1

 

Jordan Henderson has posted this -

The thoughts and prayers of all the players are with the Liverpool fan who is currently very poorly in hospital, after being badly hurt ahead of our game last night.
He came to watch a football match and support our team - the only result that matters to us now is that he recovers and can return home to be with his family and loved ones.
You’ll Never Walk Alone

 

Tbh, Frank - when you see the ****e that gets published these days it's obvious that there's very little editorial oversight. You only have to look at the standard of journalism to see this. The basic tools of a writer - spelling, grammar and literary coherence are absent from so much of the stuff you read today.
Once, when there were only printed papers and there was a limit on the amount of content, everything would have been given the green light by the editorial staff. I think that these days with so much online content it's become totally unmanageable, and a whole ****load of stuff gets published that would never have seen the light of day in the past.

 

You're right but then you wonder why they bother paying editors lol

 

Arsenal.. .. shakes head lol

 

Oblak has kept am in this

 

I wanted the fairytale ending for Arsene