The same Romero that should have seen red well before he got in front of Ekitike, him and Lunatic Richarlison were getting away with murder.
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I’d say March. Not having a pop, I agree with most of your post but we’ve been fucking dire all season bar the odd game and it extends back to the last few months of last season.
Only saw the first half tonight and it was more of the same. Turgid, ponderous, predictable and easy to defend against, even with 10 men.
The speed with which we move the ball is a joke. And it’s always to a man who is static, never someone on the move who is able to run on to it.
From what I gather the 2nd half was just as bad but with several injuries thrown in. Isak, Wirtz and Bradley all doubts now plus Dom suspended. We are literally down to the bones of our arse.
Ekiteke remains a big positive along with Dom. Wirtz is clearly class but just like at West Ham had a great chance to score but his effort was weak as piss.
The results have improved over the last month but the performances haven’t. The football remains fucking terrible though and will cost Slot eventually unless he can inject some flair/pace/excitement into it.
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I don’t care about performance this season, at least until we get a settled side. It’s all about results this season to get the minimum CL qualification and perhaps win a cup or two. Nobody loves watching a lethargic limping over the line performance. But it is what it is. There are priorities and then there are Priorities.
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I’m still completely perplexed at how Dom got a yellow for Richarlison strangling Ekitike and then squaring up to Dom?!
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The only thing to take from that shower of shite is 3 points.
As for Slot post match, he was either at a different game to most or he has swallowed a copy of Rodgers excuses.
Waiting for the “we were outstanding” line,or have I missed it!
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i wanted to start in October not becuase i thought we were fantastic in August/September, but for two reasons;
when you are getting results, you have a certain swagger, that shouldnt include ‘our first priority is not to concede a soft goal lads’…which is what we are discussing
i knew if i took the form back to august or march, it would just skew the conversation away from the subject at hand…i.e first priority is not to concede, to which i think the time for baby steps back to form has passed, if it was ever a thing.
It’s not confusing, it’s poor preparation. Fail to plan and you’re planning to lose. Players aren’t sure how to react and that’s why it seem chaotic. That’s also why it seems random with players we know are used to winning but it’s not something that can be flicked with a switch. Shoddy prep will see world class players look fragile, mentally weak and just poor.
Preparation isn’t always about reaction when under the pump, it’s also about game management and hammering home an advantage when you have it.
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Positive :
- Wirtz, Hugo, Isak and Frimpong looked very good in their appearance.They all had a hand in our victory today
- Our luck at the front is coming back. Our opponents in the last 2 matches have committed some poor ass unforced mistakes that we are able to capitalise on it fully.
- Kerkez continues to impress after being high and wide. Made quite a few defensive blocks too…His crosses ought to improve though…
Negatives:
- The football in the first half was turgid shit despite having a one man advantage with the opponent being low in confidence and discipline. Theoretically, we should be able to create a lot of successful overloads but we went back to the slow and aimless side to side shit with no width. The second half wasn’t any better until Romero fucked up his pass and allowed Isak, Ekitike and Wirtz to capitalise. This is just poor tactical setup from Slot. It’s not convincing to say the least when we have to wait for the opponents to fuck up themselves for us to even have a shot on target
- Set-pieces. Still continues to plague us especially defensively.
- Injuries and suspension building up at the festive period. I fear for Isak as that injury he got might rule him out for 2-3 weeks at the minimum, leaving us with just 1 CF for this hectic period. Bradley picked up yet another knock, Wirtz looks like a doubt after rubbing his hamstring towards the end of the game. Szobo will be suspended for the next match, allowing him to have a rest.
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Lucky for you it’s not chomping.
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I thought it was a really good game, and I loved the way they approached it. I’d love to have a captain like Cuti at LFC.
Richarlison has some fight in him, too. Rather him than the £125mil shite from IKEA.
Florian is beautiful. Hugo, too.
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Ayeeeee, it’s summed up so perfectly.
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Are you drunk?
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I wouldn’t be seen dead in a joint like this were I sober…
I do like Richarlison, though. Good thing our stupid “no dickhead” policy didn’t apply to the hierarchy, or we’d be languishing without dickheads like Edwards and Hughes to rescue us.
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I’ll take boring, flat, but goalless first halves away from home. Conceding the first goal, and early ones at that, has been one of the issues this season as we don’t react well to even minor setbacks. Yes it’s not all that fun but it’s pragmatic.
Right now stemming that poor run of form, picking up points and building some confidence is all that matters. Performances can come in time but it’s also worth noting it’s hard for performances to pick up when every other week we seem to lose a couple more to injury, especially when those injuries are in game.
The set piece issues are still a worry. It doesn’t even seem to be an issue with the first ball but instead those second and third balls when we don’t get a proper clearance. Lots of panic or just standing round looking. Saying that, the free kick that led to the corner was never a free kick and Richarlison should have been penalised for diving before he scored.
Last 10-15 was poor but you’ve got a team with nothing to lose (and with the red cards every excuse for losing) going for it against a team with that Leeds game still in the back of their mind. Holding out in that situation may well be a huge boost to us. You’d want to see us see it out better but they’re a team desperately chasing for something out the game and didn’t really create a clear chance.
I also don’t really care what Slot says in pressers. The team have a confidence issue and so what good is slagging off performances in games we win.
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Very sensible appraisal.
While everyone is howling at the team through the first halves in the match thread, to me it seems very apparent that there has been a conscious dialling down of the risk element in the early stages of football games.
0-0 at half time is fine for now. Especially so away in London. This is a team in the midst of recovering from a lot of adversity. It’s been mentally fragile for a while. The injury list is creeping up every game.
You can’t just switch on playing expansive, fluid football. Teams need to build a bedrock to base that on, and this team just needed to stop conceding shit goals.
The performances need to get better, and I think they will, but for now I’ll take scrappy wins, and won four, drawn two, lost nine will do me.
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Best thing about today is the news Isak’s injury is lower leg rather than knee.
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Sorry, what?
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He walked off so it didnt look as bad as it initially did
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I remember Van Dyjk walking off at Goodison, after being assaulted by Pickford. He missed the rest of the season.
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