Bradywasking wrote:Liverpool were awful so what did that make us for most of the game. ? Yeah great spirit blah, blah but this Liverpool team are poor despite what the Glen and Jay show would want us to believe. What was harder to believe , how poor our defence was or how stupid our keeper was. You cannot defend at any level the way we did tonight. You cannot have Sagna in the team playing like that, did he get one ball past a defender? Center defence was clueless, and the replacement left back is a big fatso
...Caz had a good second half , Pod looks like he cares and could have been given the ball on a few occasions in second half. Giroud will divide opinion but his link play in the box is good, bad miss and stupid dive apart.
Suarez wasn't exceptional, lost the ball a few times but always worried us because of our defence. Gerrard misplaces passes but still excites the commentator.
We are well off 4th and our only hope of getting it will be a win at the Lane. Could have won could have lost but miles off a decent standard.
I agree - the sat back and defended like most teams do against us - Two lines of four with a defensive midfielder in the middle. It worked for quite a lot in the first half.
Liverpool were poor poor poor, but our defense made them look like world beaters. Every single one of them were truly awful. WTF was Chesney doing playing with the ball in his area like a plank? Vermaelen and Sagna slipping and falling over. Simple diagonal balls over to one of maybe 3 attackers for Liverpool undid us time and time again.
Cazorla didn't have a good game. Ramsey was okish, but he really isn't a defensive midfielder. He doesn't have the discipline to play it. He tried though and didn't hide. Today was mainly about the front 3, who played pretty well and Jack played decent, but is probably now the most fouled player in the league.
Ultimately, the buck stops with Wenger and there were many times in which he was getting stick from our section (we sit very near him) because he offers nothing during the game. Occassionally claps encouragement, but mainly looks lost. He simply has to go, but we know that he won't go.
He is a developmental manager (from watching drills of his players - almost all of the drills were based on technique) and that is a great trait of a first team coach, but not a manager. He really needs to step down.
any team that fancies having a go thesedays can do us.
