"As expected, Liverpool have dominated against a much-changed Palace side, controlling proceedings from the off and looking much more themselves than in Tuesday’s 4-0 drubbing to Man Utd.
“This is all about getting miles in the players’ legs at this stage of preseason, while Palace have threatened on occasions, but understandably look rusty with such a weakened lineup.”
Liverpool 2-0 Crystal Palace
FT: It is all over in Singapore as Liverpool stroll to a 2-0 win thanks to goals in each half from Henderson and Salah’s deflected strike against a weakened Palace team.
And that makes up for Tuesday’s 4-0 thrashing by Man Utd as both sides get more valuable miles in their leg s ahead of the new season.
I find myself laughing at the media spin on United winning 2 games as posted in the united scumbag thread
Get the feeling some are getting anxious over Nunez simply because he’s new and there’s that expectation over when he’ll ge this first goal. Neither Diaz or Bobby have scored yet but i’m probably the first person to mention that simply because it only seems to matter if you’re a new forward.
Nunez looks like he’s running on empty. He’s probably working harder than he ever has before and he has the blistering. These games are nothing more than a fitness exercise and he’s working his way to his.
Solid game, bit boring at times compared to the first one, completely different due to Palace’s different approach and them missing a number of players.
Nice autopilot Hendo swerve, he always does that when he receives in the right half space, it’s either a cross or a shot or something in between! Guaita should’ve done better at both goals though, especially the second.
I think there’s a reason why right now we’re not pairing Diaz and Nunez in the same side and why we are pairing Nunez with Salah.
Partly because we want to have balanced out sides, but partly because the two of them are very aggressive (a bit too wild at times!) and new and perhaps need to learn where to be and how to act in certain situations. We can’t lazily forget that Diaz’s been here only for half a year. Made a good start, but the learning and improving can’t stop here.
I think Nunez immediately with Salah because that “partnership” will be probably the most interesting one to follow how it evolves.
Both of them need to understand as soon as possible each other’s dynamics. Nunez to learn what are the consequences behind/around their zones when Mo is being Mo and Salah to learn how to play with a completely different striker to Bobby and everything else we’ve had in a number of years, actually nobody since he’s been at the club.
Some years ago, the club held a pre-season camp in Switzerland and I went to see a game. It was the first time Torres was involved, for thirty minutes or so. He just strolled around, did nothing noteworthy, and I found myself thinking: “He’s not as good as he has been hyped up, is he?”.
The whole pre-season went on more or less like that for the lad, and then the season started. We played our first game against Chelsea and the rest is history.
There is also the impact of how Nunez players for the rest of the team. We’ve played with one of the best false 9s ever for many years, Bobby who comes deep, turns, links play…
Nunez plays off the shoulder, he’s always stretching the defence… I’m sure he’ll grow into being more involved with build up, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to see why Klopp has Thiago, Keita, Elliot, Jones and Carvalho playing midfield… Creative players, who can play that final pass. All of our play was making overloads, switching play, getting it to the fullbacks to cut back for Mane/Salah… I think we’ll see Nunez being hit more centrally, shifting to the left then sliding it over to Mo back post.
I found it interesting Trent had shifted his position slightly as well so he could hit Nunez through the lines.
I certainly have not. so it very much like a child that paints lots of mess onto a paper and you are supposed to figure out what the hell it could possibly be… whilst here is
no true meaning? its just a fucking mess?
