Not true in E4, thought it was one of the better atmospheres this season. Heard plenty from North too.
What’s most frustrating is that Birmingham were utter dog ****. We went 1-0 up due to a controversial goal and just coasted after that, having a lot of possession but not doing anything with it. We should’ve put them to the sword. If we can’t beat the likes of these, Stoke, QPR etc. at home then we don’t deserve to go up.
Might be make or break for certain individuals, but we'll still play a possession style, the owner will still put in the max he can, and we still won't be content for mid table. It was the most frustrating game I've been to tonight. In so much control we started coasting, then bang. Bit of experience from a sub and 2 points dropped.
The forward line had plenty of the ball tonight, it’s on them that they didn’t do more with it. Id be more annoyed if I was Greaves and Jones to be honest. Us not scoring a second but them under more pressure than was necessary.
The amount of times the forwards played an extra pass or didn't see an overlapping run was incredibly frustrating.
I’d go as far to say it wasn’t the style of play that was the problem, it was the decision making in the final third. Sadly, as others rightly point out, that’s a trend that’s happening too often. That needs sorting, otherwise we are pretty good.
Carvalho runs around a lot and puts in a shift, but in front of goal with the ball at his feet and he puts it over the bar from 6 yards. Now I know why he's not part of Klopp's Kids Philogene is excellent, but at the same time turning into one hell of a frustrating player..
Sounds like Arsenal in ‘08 when Cousin scored the winner! I’ve literally read the last page as I can’t be Arsed reading the whole thing!
Greaves gave the ball to the Birmingham player who crossed the ball and Jones was out muscled for the header
I think that comes with 2/3 years of stability and growing relationships between players. It'll come - though not with the amount of churn we've seen over the last couple of windows.
I thought Seri was great first half I wouldn’t have taken him off I wouldn’t have brought Zaroury on ever mind you
Thought we played some lovely football first half but needed that second goal, you can never feel comfy at 1.0 and in all honesty I don’t think either keeper had much to save. We put 3 or 4 decent chances well over the bar and that one at the end was a very decent chance for Ohio. Don’t know what he will do going forward because we desperately miss that presence of Delap, I think we would have had at least another 6 points on the board, however we have to go with what we have, a crock in Connery, a young raw talent in Ohio or a past it Billy sharp who I think would have put that chance away at the end. It’s either that or stick with what you have but for some reason it’s not working at home The away form last five games as been great but games like tonight could cost us the play offs. You have to beat teams like Birmingham at home and it certainly doesn’t give you much confidence for the Leicester game on Saturday. Let’s hope they prove me wrong. Having said all that we are still in a decent position, we all know it could and should have been so much better but ten games to go is a lot of points and anything can happen.
Exactly. Bet Zaroury is loving this rubbish much more than he did with Burnley last year when they were running teams ragged with him at the forefront.
