Match Day Thread Liverpool vs Saints Tuesday 23rd 8pm

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tomw24 said:
What exactly did Robinson do? Scienza did a lot more positive things, even if he did miss a sitter.
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Scienza was good first half. Faded second. His miss was as bad as Macca's cock up, but whatever, I'll let that go. I was very happy with his debut, but as I just replied to Loading, J-Rob never really deserved to be dropped, and I would be equally happy if either start on Saturday.
 
Le Tissier's Laces said:
And going backwards too. He dealt with, and nullified Nghomoha incredibly well, despite the Sky commentators needing tissues every time the teenage attacker got the ball.

In fact, I don't think he ran past him once.

He also dovetailed with Adarma really well on the right.
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It makes me feel a bit sick to give the ITV commentators any credit, but early on (must have been very quietly so as not to upset the natural order…) they did point out that Jelert had done his homework.

I’m with you, I think he managed to show him back inside every time and never over committed, it was a very assured display.

I also enjoyed watching Scienza face forward at every opportunity. It was like watching Alcaraz again as if you’re already facing forward, you’ve got a yard already to push.
 
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Che’s Godlike Thighs said:
Scienza was good first half. Faded second. His miss was as bad as Macca's cock up, but whatever, I'll let that go. I was very happy with his debut, but as I just replied to Loading, J-Rob never really deserved to be dropped, and I would be equally happy if either start on Saturday.
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Yep. there's merit to that argument for sure. A lot will depend on what formation Still chooses to go with. Robinson would suit a 4-2-3-1 more than Scienza, who worked well in a 3-4-3 shape we saw last night.
 
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Velcro Roy said:
Mmm think that's a bit of a myth,don't remember much of that happening last season.
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Libby said:
Yeah last season we largely skipped the first bit.
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Without looking through the results (because my memory isn't good enough) I'm pretty sure all 3 Liverpool games we put in a good performance last season (and lost), Arsenal away (can't remember at home), Man Utd at home (can't remember away), Man City both games and at home where we got that all important 12th point. It doesn't happen every time sure, but we do regularly raise our performances and effort levels to compete with the big teams and lose, but never follow up that intensity of performances against anyone else.
 
RSS said:
Without looking through the results (because my memory isn't good enough) I'm pretty sure all 3 Liverpool games we put in a good performance last season (and lost), Arsenal away (can't remember at home), Man Utd at home (can't remember away), Man City both games and at home where we got that all important 12th point. It doesn't happen every time sure, but we do regularly raise our performances and effort levels to compete with the big teams and lose, but never follow up that intensity of performances against anyone else.
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Think United away was better than home wasn't it? We were leading until quite late on.
 
Libby said:
Think United away was better than home wasn't it? We were leading until quite late on.
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Yeah maybe! My memory doesn't always serve me with these things. Just remember Dibling absolutely destroying the Man Utd defence at home which may have clouded my overall memory of how the game went!
 
RSS said:
Yeah maybe! My memory doesn't always serve me with these things. Just remember Dibling absolutely destroying the Man Utd defence at home which may have clouded my overall memory of how the game went!
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Home game we started really well (and you're right about Dibling), missed a penalty and then conceded twice in quick succession before HT.

Away game we took a first half lead and then conceded 3 in the last 10-15 minutes.
 
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Does anyone think Saturday might be an improvement? I would love it to be but like most of us I have been damaged by our last two relegation seasons, and even the promotion season had its moments that weren't fun.

It would be nice to get on a level footing, and look like a good, difficult to beat football club, I don't mean win every game and storm to the top of the table (although if they want to do that, I'm on board), I'd love to look forward to Saturday (normally) and either watching Saints on TV or checking up on their games as much as I can.

As a soft sort of bloke, with a few non-football serious problems, it is bloody depressing, it's a thing I need to help cheer me up a bit.

Although my old ice hockey team has started well, two games unbeaten and the away game in a difficult to win at place.

So c'mon Saints you can do this!
 
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