Match Thread: Liverpool v Spurs

[KingCanny]

Isn't Slot our first head coach rather than manager?That worked out well

[Nineteenx]

Maybe just change the manager that might be a start

Should have.been done end of October

[LFC-DPG]

From my opening post


“That line up is so unbalanced and lacking in any sort of physicality, this is the Premier League ffs
Good job Spurs are missing so many. Still look dangerous up front mind.“


It looked a terrible line from the minute it was announced, the manager picks the team, coaches them and gives them the tactics .. well allegedly gives them tactics to play to but I haven’t seen any evidence of it this season.

Utterly appalling yet so obviously predictable

Yet we were far better with that unbalanced line up than we were after the first set of substitutions.

Slot got it horribly wrong today

[Insidious]

Can only assume the CL is keeping him in the job. Dont think the FAC will be enough to save him and it'll be an upset to knock city out A. It could all be over by Thursday

I don't see us sacking him unless we are mathematically out of the Champion's League race.

[RedMagic]

Yet we were far better with that unbalanced line up than we were after the first set of substitutions.

Slot has got it horribly wrong this season.

Fixed for you.

[Steveo]

From my opening post


“That line up is so unbalanced and lacking in any sort of physicality, this is the Premier League ffs
Good job Spurs are missing so many. Still look dangerous up front mind.“


It looked a terrible line from the minute it was announced, the manager picks the team, coaches them and gives them the tactics .. well allegedly gives them tactics to play to but I haven’t seen any evidence of it this season.

Utterly appalling yet so obviously predictable

You were right to worry and so it proved. I thought it looked ballsy with the changes and attempt to try something different.

Starting Rio was a good move but our best mid at RB and your best forward on the bench - on reflection….was daft

[Insidious]

The point is we have great players on paper. This is all down to slots management when so many players fall off a cliff & can't perform.

Also very imbalanced squad on paper in terms of make-up, with Kerkez, Gakpo, Wirtz, Ekitike, Isak and to a degree Mac Allister all enjoying work in the left half-space - so there have been chemistry issues - couple that with the change from Trent and a flying Mo to no Trent and this current version of Mo - and a few players in decline - AND the manager deviating to slow possession football to try to minimise opposition attacks..... it's all stacking up.

Hopefully balancing out the squad make-up a bit over the next window or two - and likely a managerial change - will help bring the best out of the number of quality players we have, as we definitely aren't a "bad" side even if we have been performing like one in many sense for too long a period.

[Nineteenx]

Rio was the best player on the park.

He really wasn’t he doesn’t beat men often enough or really create anything we’re just doing the overrate a youngster nonsense again

[jr81]

You were right to worry and so it proved. I thought it looked ballsy with the changes and attempt to try something different.

Starting Rio was a good move but our best mid at RB and your best forward on the bench - on reflection….was daft

This was a game we needed to win after Chelsea and villa results. Start strong, try get a few goals lead against a very spurs, then rest the players for CL. What he done was treat this game like an fá cup round against lower opposition. Stupid move.

Frimpong at right forward while our best midfielder this year is rb. Doesn't make sense.

But we are too slow and ponderous. We are not fully committed. Robertson half hearted challenge for that header at rhe end was embarrassing and Virgil attempt to block the attacker. Virgil and gomez were bullied by the 2 forwards.

[Steveo]

He really wasn’t he doesn’t beat men often enough or really create anything we’re just doing the overrate a youngster nonsense again

I think he was. I think he was the ONLY player spurs could not handle. And for. long spell all we did was keep feeding him the ball - the fact nobody had the guile to make a goal from it is on seniors.

Dom was good but made many mistakes too. Gakpo has been so shyte for so long some are thinking that was a good display up front,

please folks watch the game again