Match Thread Liverpool V Sunderland.

[teesred]

And I'm sick of seeing it. With the exception of Wirtz and Jones when he came on there was no one willing to give and go on the edge of the 18 yard box.

Crossing the ball against a packed back line has never, ever worked.

Yep..it's like watching a Peter Kay show. Predictable.
There's zero guile or creativity. I'm not having it that that squad isn't full of quality. It is and theres a manager or two/three/four would love to work with it.
Whatever Slot is doing it's not working and he's slowly for himself and painfully for us working himself out of a job. An incredibly worrying show that tonight when we maybe expected some momentum after Sunday.

[jr81]

And I'm sick of seeing it. With the exception of Wirtz and Jones when he came on there was no one willing to give and go on the edge of the 18 yard box.

Crossing the ball against a packed back line has never, ever worked.

Nope, and that's whatbwe resotlrted to, flinging it into a packed box. As you say, Jones and wirtz have a few quick give and go's and it resulted in the goal. But we never get behind to get an early ball in for isak. Never give a long ball in behind for him to run into.

Did we sign him with the intent of using him how he was used before, or trying to make him fit us? When you pay over 100million for a player (he wasn't worth that by the way) , you need to play to his strengths. Ekitike probably suits more right now than isak.

[Nineteenx]

Even I mastered that ball and got it to cone down where I wanted on a right angle and I was better at it with my weaker foot, my putting wedge, you can’t defend it hit right

It goes like this

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Up and down at a steep angle you can take players right out with it

[Nineteenx]

Agree Jr81 we don’t practice and set up to counter in opponents direct from their set piece anymore we don’t use variation and mix it up we don’t use witches long diagonals or go back to fro t sometimes from Alisson too anymore

That shit works

[fiordearg]

Slot has reduced the risk personnel wise in the last two games. There's no plan to get the best out of the players who are playing with fear now

[teesred]

We're so slow and easy to play against, we've had issues with low block teams at times..... but we still had some pace and good play to get through them...... now that's gone, it's a terrible watch, i'd love to see utd of last season v us it would be the best game in the world.

Sick and tired of gakpo doing the same thing, what does chiesa have to do???? no doubt chiesa stays on the bench and salah starts next game...... LOL

Chiesa has probably just gave slot a lifeline, yet he still won't get more than 5 mins

The no pace is a huge problem. It's been one of our main assets the last 7/8 years and it's totally gone now.
I've seen HGVs reverse quicker than Gakpo going forward, add that to his telegram of a turn into the right and it just renders him fucking useless most of the time.
Who the fuck would have thought we'd be talking like this after last season. A drop off was maybe expected but Jesus wept this as bad as the football under any of the managers in our bleak years. It's fucking awful to watch.

[teesred]

Agree Jr81 we don’t practice and set up to counter in opponents direct from their set piece anymore we don’t use variation and mix it up we don’t use witches long diagonals or go back to fro t sometimes from Alisson too anymore

That shit works

I genuinely wonder what they are drilled in training or what his tactics before the game are. It honestly looks like absolutely nothing. No identity at all.

[jr81]

Agree Jr81 we don’t practice and set up to counter in opponents direct from their set piece anymore we don’t use variation and mix it up we don’t use witches long diagonals or go back to fro t sometimes from Alisson too anymore

That shit works

Yep, we haven't seen a diagonal from virgil in how long? I know trent was the main man for that, but Szobo could do it, robbo used to.

We used to hit the opposition fast.

From my reading slot likes to be more controlled, less risky, play the percentage pass which is to keep position. The problem is we are so slow in the build up, the opposition all get back.

We had a chance to break at 1-1, I think mó and jones won it back and instead of going hell for leather we slowed it down until Szobo just hit a hit and hope cross to no one.

Before that would have been fast pass out wide, fast cross to centre, tap in for isak.

The players do look scared to try something new. Agree with you fiordearg, they are playing with fear. Fear of making a mistake by trying something. Fear of going long.

Jones played 1 long pass after coming on and he took out 3 of their players and we got into the box.

[Nineteenx]

Same last game our best chance by a mile before either goal came from Virgil playing on of his long up and down balls dropped just over the last defender on the edge of his own box we did that shit all the time in 19-20 it’s that driven putting wedge up and down ball

A fair few goals that season we dropped it over the head of their defenders on the edge of their own box and scored Trent Virgil
Hendo all at it

Robbo too in the odd occasion.

Richard Hughes wants fucking sacked and that specks glory hunting credit claiming twat Edwards fucking sell Diaz out only player with genuine pace flair creativity and trickery and the only other player we have with all of that in abundance but not as quick, Chiesa never gets a start

[Steveo]

This^