Match Thread: Aston Villa v Liverpool

[justme]

apparently Villas 3 goal was probably offside and guess who the var guy was VAR!: Chris Kavanagh.

[JockStrap]

apparently Villas 3 goal was probably offside and guess who the var guy was VAR!: Chris Kavanagh.

If ainlie thare wis a room whaur we cuid lock a' th' FAUEFAFIFAPGMOL conspiracy clowns 🤡 🤡

[reddownunder]

I do think it’s interesting how the best two teams in the league (City & Arsenal) have moved away from attacking minded full backs and gone with defensive minded ones or even centre backs. The likes of Cancelo and Zinchenko have been set aside for Gvardiol, Tomiyasu etc....

Feels like both City and Arsenal are more solid as a result but neither have lost their attacking threat.....

We on the other hand, are porous as hell. Hopefully Slot takes a handle on that from his first day in charge.....

Yeah I've noticed this season that both City and Arsenal have often lined up with 4 centre backs. It's an interesting tactic that seems to be working

[Nineteenx]

Half of our trouble has come through being the imitators rather than the innovators

[CCTV]

Off the top of my head I couldn’t tell you, Quansah had a few games when we had the continuity in midfield & up top when we pressed a lot better & our positioning was better as a result which as per our 19-20 Gomez discussion makes things a lot easier for CBs I believe the proof is in the pudding is the saying

In this last run of games I think Quansah based on my expectations of what I think a centre back should do in given situations & what they should always be aware of & him having done neither of those things in a number of situations that led to goals - Based pretty much on how Virgil Matip Konate & a host of other top CBs do it in those situations

He just needs some help & work on that & is otherwise an excellent young player

Cheers 19.

Early on in the season I thought trent was the main source of our goals conceded. Lad looks so lazy these days.

Looking at previous standout seasons under Klopp.

For me the best was 18/19
Scored 89 & Conceded 22

Think 21/22 was our highest scoring PL season
Scored 94 & Conceded 26

This year we've scored 84 & conceded 41

Our league winning season
Scored 85 & conceded 33

Our defensive record just hasn't been good enough.

[jozza800]

I don't think we've particularly defended well as team this season, but I attriubte that to having to chop and change the line up week in, week out. I dont think we can solely lay the problem on a single player.

[Kev0909]

So the game that was good, summary i'm seeing from posts

1) We need another rebuild in midfield
2) we need to replace Diaz and nunez.. so a rebuild in attack.
3) We need to rebuild at the back

Sounds good.

Jota can go for 70m btw, always injured as good as he is, not good enough to only play half games it's silly, can't count on him being the only clinical striker....... who's always out...

[Kev0909]

I thought Díaz was woeful, he had 3 potential goal involvements, fluffed a goal chance, hit a terrible ball for Mo then needlessly went too early to actually release Mo & Elliott

There’s the Copa America finals this summer too

Maybe that’s where my man Mac’s head was when he miscontrolled for them to score, at least he was furious & embarrassed by it, his face went rage red

He's always shit, 19x.

[Kev0909]

So the game that was good, summary i'm seeing from posts

1) We need another rebuild in midfield
2) we need to replace Diaz and nunez.. so a rebuild in attack.
3) We need to rebuild at the back

Sounds good.

Jota can go for 70m btw, always injured as good as he is, not good enough to only play half games it's silly, can't count on him being the only clinical striker....... who's always out...

So the game was that* daft twat

[Nineteenx]

New RCB to replace Matip who was a massive miss this season

New top quality No6

2 top young wide/inside forwards