Bootle and Huyton aren’t Liverpool either, but many wouldn’t doubt the allegiances of Carragher and Gerrard, or others from those areas.
Sorry Matty, you’re wrong here. You’ve just decided that anything in the Greater Manchester area wouldn’t align themselves with Manchester, which isn’t correct.
There is some talk that Wataru Endo could be in the squad for this assuming that the medical goes OK and he doesn’t get stuck in London and decide he prefers wearing blue.
Opponents have caught on to the fact that we conserve our energy to attack in spurts. Then after the blitz , we tend to slow down and that is where we are being run ragged.
We dont press all the time , we do so in intervals. Teams are quite happy to let us run ragged when we press and then get a quick counter.
The 40 minutes of a match we play very well is often enough to win by 3 to 4 goals at the end. It’s the play in the other 50 minutes which concerns me.