Matip was REALLY good tonight. He was outstanding. 50/50 balls, tackles, interceptions, positional awareness. He wasn’t backing down from any challenge. His passing range was a little off, just coming back, but defensively he was phenomenal.
Ali was sensational.
That was two, world class sides going toe-to-toe with each other. Looked like a heavyweight boxing match. Heavy pitch at the end drained all the boys legs. Each side controlled periods, each side were put on their heels for periods. City is still City. World class players all throughout their side. Good point for us to take from the match IMO.
If you allow yourself to take a step back and look at what our boys are doing with a fixture schedule that is absolutely mental, it’s really amazing.
I’m proud of our boys tonight. Dreams and songs to sing.
Defensively we were definitely 4 4 2 and I thought this worked well as realistically Shitty only had 2 good chances with only 2 shots on target and for most of the game we looked comfortable defensively. however, our forward play was poor today
Mané was not at fault for the equaliser. A press had been called and he was pressing (that call was illadvised but it happened). Gini moving over out of his zonz and of that belgian was the error. He had to leave Robbo and Mané to make the effort to do something.
In defense of Mané he was up against that shithole Walker so perhaps a little put off. I didn’t think he was that bad. He did look like he was prepared to make the effort to prevent too much damage before ‘their’ goal however Gini’s ill advised quittance of his zone made it complicated.
Gini makes a flagrant error/mistake and gets let off the hook by blaming a player that was doing his job. Typical.
we could /should have scored more we were wasteful.
we played a great game tactically but it seems legs went at the end .
Milner did ok defensively but offensively he was frustrating . Firmino needs to shape up a bit .
Defensively we looked better. Not many better attacking sides than them and they didn’t really create that much.
An actual experienced CB next to Gomez. Fear that’ll be the last we see of Matip for this month though.
A point away to them is never a bad result. Thought the game management from about 70 onwards was pretty much impeccable.
The bad:
Trent
4-2-3-1 didn’t really work going forward again. Felt like we’d have just been better with starting Bobby on the bench.
Not much change from the bench. Wasn’t sure Shaq was the right option as the front three looked gassed and someone who would bring the ball out was needed. As usual, the midfield lacks creativity but feel Thiago would have bossed that in a 4-3-3.
Bit of a break now so have every single one of them pull out of international games with a case of athletes foot. Wrap them in cotton wool and force them to rest.
I can sit here and regret and mourn for 13 days, but I’m really happy about the most important sign of the times. We could have won by 2-3 today, but we didn’t. Not only are we back, but I am confident that we’ll continue to march on and start to destroy everyone like before the pandemic.
Be afraid…be very afraid all you hopeful big city fanatics
I just don’t think you understand football, the reason our passes went astray was primarily two factors;
Fatigue - We’ve had a grueling schedule (with minimal pre-season) and a mounting injury list
The opponent - They pressed well, they kept shape and it took 1 small mistake (Manes, followed by Gini) to cut us wide open… Thats just their ability, the speed they went right, to De Bruyne into Jesus was blink of an eye.
So I think you are being overly harsh, sometimes you give credit to the opposition. Considering we made them look pretty average we did a bloody good job.
He should rule Henderson and Gomez out alongside them Maria…
Don’t know of one Liverpool fan that has any interest in the fortunes of En-gur-land… Certainly not while that Pickford loving ‘Plonker’, Rodders Southgate is managing them…
I think he did. Sometimes a player does something amazing and you just need to toff your hat. If one of ours did it most of us here would be lauding it as genius.
