The Isak start alone is unforgivable. We’re probably lucky he’s not injured again. Sticking him in when he is clearly not ready for the most intense game of the season is both madness and a dereliction of duty. With the crowd’s help, who knows what an BBC amped up Rio and Salah combo could have done! Also, was Hugo really fit enough to start this match?
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Was an absolutely poor decision to take him off seeing as he apparently wasn’t injured. We we playing well with Joe on and he was actually a threat in the sense that he stayed high, got on the ball in space and was causing real problems. Simply getting on another attacker doesn’t mean all those things get amplified. Was miffed seeing him come off and having now learned that he wasn’t injured it’s pretty inexplicable.
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Yeah, we’ll be lucky. We’d be lost without him.
Isak is never fit for duty. Such an embarrassing, nonsense, Manchester/Brendan-esque signing.
Remember when Klopp said we wouldn’t get hung up on one particular player because there’s an entire world of talent out there?
Youse ate it up, though.
Really Arne? I am not feeling it with this current squad.
“But the future looks very bright for this team, for this club. We have showed we can compete with the champions of Europe in our stadium. To be the dominant team, not many teams can be dominant against PSG and create as many chances as we did,” he added.
Extremely reluctantly, I now believe we need a change and I fear it will require at least 3 transfer windows to seriously challenge for the big prizes again. Really hope I am wrong though.
Starting Isak last night was evidence of confused thinking. Nothing really shocks me these days but I was genuinely shocked when I saw him in the starting XI..
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Yeah, but when we have Salah on, who doesn’t defend, and Rio on, who doesn’t defend, it starts to get a bit much.
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Isak has been out 4 months with a broken leg has been back in full training a few weeks he was never going to be fit enough to start.
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The subs are indicative of a man trying to manage form, a tactical plan and two goal deficit, and ultimately the subs of a man who doesn’t trust his players and feels like he has to win the game from the bench. In that regard it feels a lot like Brendan cycling through formations in the FA Cup semi final, confusing the fans, his players and ultimately himself.
He puts on Gomez for Frimpong because he is concerned that PSG are getting at us down our right, and what’s some solidity there.
He takes off Gomez, because the game reaches the final half hour we haven’t made the breakthrough and he wants to get Rio on (which I suspect was always the plan) but he doesn’t want to take off Mac Allister, Szobozslai or Wirtz.
The problems I have with that Sub are:
- Gomez was playing really, really well. Regardless of this, you don’t take players off 20minites after coming on unless they are injured or having a shocker. It’s a real blow to Joe’s confidence, and I don’t think Slot does that to a player he cares about.
- Moving Szobozslai to RB is de facto taking him off, because it’s moving him out of the position that he is looking really effective in.
- Mac Allister was, as he always does on 60, looking exhausted, and he takes him off 15 minutes later anyway. He spends the fifteen minutes that Slot has sacrificed Joe to keep him on blowing out of his arse and struggling to even make a tactical foul.
It’s just trying to be too clever. The screamingly obvious move is to put on Rio for Mac Allister, move Wirtz into the centre and leave Szobozslai in the middle, and Gomez at RB when both are doing well.
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The Gomez substitution was to me, the final straw with Arne. Any leaning towards him going was massively tilted with that. Rio should have started. When he didnt, then as you say on for MacAllister was the obvious choice. I don’t buy the excuse for taking Joe off. Its covering his tracks to save embarrassment for the player. Joe was playing well, making a difference. No one, fucking no one volunteers to come off in that moment.
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So as not to bring up the past I just say we haven’t got a captain. It’s going to be difficult to find one.
The character of the team is off however that’s another discussion.
He’s worst than Brendan. I can not bring myself to imagine what players Slots would bring in if he had the choice.
Anyway I told you so, worst than Brendan! At least Brendan made a scrap of it with far inferior players than we have now.
Totally disagree he is worse than Brendan. That’s recency bias talking.
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I think it should have been starting Isak. The Gomez situation was just another poop on the crumble.
It was looking good with Gomez on however a biscuit is a biscuit.
At least the team made an effort, with better passing we might have got something.
We just had Brendan doing nonsense for longer, look where it gets you.
Learn from history they say 
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Simple way to resolve this. Would you swap Slot for Brendan right now?
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In our case it got us Klopp, and I’ll take Brendan getting six months longer than he should have got for that. If we’d pulled the trigger at the end on the 14/15 season, as fans were screaming at the club to do, then no Jurgen.
French press reporting Hugo has done the achilles.
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For entertainment value yes.
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Brendan is a dick and Arne isn’t. So for that reason I wouldn’t swap. Who is the best coach is probably up for debate. Arne won the league. Brendan came close with a far inferior squad, though he did have Suarez. Both have had success in other leagues
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If Suarez had’nt got banned for 8 matches. We would have won the league under Brendan and then gone downhill, like we are now.
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Probably .
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