Match Thread: Fulham v Liverpool

[miller0863]

Ok Jurgen sort it. That half’s gone, go and with the second half 3-0.

[justme]

It's certainly changed. With Gini we had our lcm break and play 10.
These days it's our rcm Hendo who breaks and plays 10, from our weaker right side.

At this rate we might swap hendo and trent around, rb & rcm/10

Whats different in Wijnaldum offered a bit of physicality when he pressed and went forward and he mixed it well in midfield. Thiago is basically there to keep passing and its the passing thats slowing us down.. Playing with a false 9 also causes us to over play..

[CCTV]

Whats different in Wijnaldum offered a bit of physicality when he pressed and went forward and he mixed it well in midfield. Thiago is basically there to keep passing and its the passing thats slowing us down.. Playing with a false 9 also causes us to over play..

I think Gini was a better 10 option breaking from midfield, decent shot and header of the ball.

[scientificred]

Fulham have had quite an indifferent preseason based in Spain and portugal but seem fitter and better prepared
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323_Fulham_F.C._season

[Insidious]

First decision that Diaz has gotten wrong.

He was never going to score the header from that far out and with so little power, and should have instead cushioned a pass back to his teammates in the middle instead.

Actually think he was aiming to get it to Firmino and he just got it all wrong, but it's hard to be absolutely certain.

Pretty poor half overall it has to be said. If we are to have poor halves of football (which we can't afford to happen too often really) then you want to have them against sides that aren't Man City, Tottenham, Chelsea etc as we would be punished worse than this and the game could be out of sight.

As it is, hit the reset button at half-time. Treat the second half as a 45-minute football match that we have to win 2-0 or better. See where we are.

Have to show much more. Points matter more than performances at this stage, but we can't be piss-poor.

Glad we have a match at Anfield soon and a match against Man United soon after - hopefully find some of our venom rather than whatever that half was.

[justme]

We have less goal scorers in the 11 now that Mane as left.. If Salah has a poorish season. I don't know where the goals are going to come from . we are expecting too much from Nunez . If Firmino stays on he needs to score. But he'll be to busy over on the left or picking up the ball in the midfield.

[Crimson Dynasty]

Shouldn't make for a good reading for Trent that he's been the defender against whom the last goal against us to end the season last season was scored to lose the Champions League, and again to be the same culprit to open this season against whom the first one we've conceded this season has been scored.

This one was a little bit less his fault and more of an overall team breakdown, but he still could have done better blocking Mitrovic out and denying him the space to get up to get that header.

[scientificred]

Could have been 3-0 down without conplaint

[justme]

I think Gini was a better 10 option breaking from midfield, decent shot and header of the ball.

We never really played with a number 10 it was mostly a false 9. so ina way that was a 10..so pretty much like today.. Just
Wijnaldum offered/offers more than Thiago. whos posistion i have no idea about..

[scientificred]

Vaguely.

Strong hands! Amazing save! 2012.