Match Thread: Liverpool v Man City

[vin]

Haaland will be brilliant. His individual skill-set is top drawer.

I'm curious to see how slowly/quickly they adjust to him though. He's a totally different Beast to what they have been utilising previously.

I was trying to think of a situation that has gone before similar to this (Sterling+Jesus out, Haaland in) and the first comparison that came to mind was when Henry and Eto'o departed Barcelona whilst Ibrahimovic joined. It brought teething problems. It shouldn't be as drastic for Man City (Jesus and Sterling aren't as important as Eto'o and Henry were) but they still need to acclimatise.

Haaland will make a lot of runs off the shoulder - players will need to learn to pick those out, rather than always opt to pass the ball to a wide player/full-back and keep possession until there's an overload for a cut-back goal that Man City have been scoring forever - it felt like Mancini's side scored that goal every week!

Exactly. Even when he didn't play so well against us - he had 2 clear cut chances that he should've scored.

[Taksin]

Season kicking off with a VAR stitch up doesn't bode well, Adrian has both hands on the ball when Foden kicks it making him spill it, their lad wasn't offside, but how do VAR not rule it a foul on Adrian in ANOTHER failure to apply the laws of the game VAR moment?

Plus they couldn’t decide if the penalty was a handball by themselves

[vin]

Haaland had a record low 8 touches in the first half. Had that been Núñez he would have been written off out of hand.

And wasn’t a goal disallowed by var last season because a keeper had one hand on the ball, never mind two?

Yes. The amount of stick Nunez is getting from opposing fans is ridiculous. £65m isn't an excessive fee in this market. Before he joined us he was being described as a "beast".

[vin]

Don't worry, he's one of mine, he's going to be an incredible success

One of yours?

[Taksin]

One of yours?

Nineteen has a squad list of eligible and effective players around the leagues, all of which could improve our play and solve our problems. Nuñez is one of those.
He’s like a super agent.

[justme]

be interesting to see how Man-city get the ball into Haaland. they dont really play with out and out wide players. Sterling has gone.. Time will tell if Haaland can play the ball from behind him and turn with players around him.
One thing is for sure he won't get the space like he did in Germany

[ianlfc]

Nineteen has a squad list of eligible and effective players around the leagues, all of which could improve our play and solve our problems. Nuñez is one of those.
He’s like a super agent.

He's the super agents, super agent.

[justme]

Wasnt Werner one of his?? and Havertz?? Havertz is a decent player but 70 million? never

[vin]

Nineteen has a squad list of eligible and effective players around the leagues, all of which could improve our play and solve our problems. Nuñez is one of those.
He’s like a super agent.

Amazing.

[justme]

Sod off justne lad

You think i should sod off now? since we beat Man-city in the meaningless friendly. we have been utter fking garbage.
That was our cup final. Fulham should have been.