Id say the opposite. Watch even most of Mo’s best goals and there is a dodgy looking touch in there somewhere. It’s that seeming miscontrol that coaxes a defender into thinking they can nick it, but Mo’s feet work so quickly that he gets it back under control in time to beat them. That’s why he leaves defenders on the floor so often. The same thing happens with keepers. He is often able to get a shot off quicker than you expect after those dodgy touches which means the keepers are invariably not yet set. I think on that goal De Gea saw the dodgy touch but assumed Mo was still quick enough to get to it and so instead focused on trying to get set for the shot that would come after he got it back under control, but Mo just skipped that step altogether.
Im not saying he uses bad touches to lure in defender and put keepers off balance, but I think its his ability to rectify them so quickly that is part of why he’s so difficult to defend.
I think it gives insight into how high the quality of work is on the training ground. Throwing a guy into a game like this with so little experience is crazy until you think what he faces up to every day in training.
I just read someone posted elsewhere that every 5 years, the 4th weekend match (Sunday?) in October, Red Manc would lose big time:
2011 (H) vs Blue Manc - 1:6
2016 (A) vs Chelsea - 4:0
2021 (H) vs Our Boys - 0:5
Now my euphoria has died down I’m kind of left with a hint of regret to be honest.
Now that Ole, sadly looks like a dead duck we should have scored 10. Scoring more would have made no difference to what happens over there so we should have taken the opportunity.
Liverpool fans will remember. The day when we went to Old Trafford, and disregarded them to such an extent that we just made the last thirty minutes really sad for them.
I’ve no doubt we’ll remember, in exactly the same way I remember Scott Gibbs going over the try line at Wembley. To quote a famous Welsh bard - “I was there”
But I see that Spurs put 6 past them once, Villa put 7 past us on a bad day and I remember us beating Palace 9-0. Then I know we also backed off and it’s left me thirsty for more. It was there if we wanted it and it’ll probably never happen again.
To be fair I have travelled all the way back to Kingston with two other reds.
I’d always take 5-0 instead of 8-0 and two more injuries, I think it’s why we held up though if the 5th hadn’t been Salah’s third I think we may have seen another.
Unlike Spurs we did it in front of their fans, watch Ole walk off at half time he just looked at the pitch and down he couldn’t face looking at the fans.
As much as I would have loved to have seen a 0-10 score line, they had six cautions and a red. As Klopp said, after Pogba went off, the goal was to get out of there with no more injuries.
