Pre Match | Liverpool vs. Midtjylland | CL Matchday 2 | Tuesday October 27th 20:00h | Anfield

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Crap half of football so far. Same issues in this formation as we had against Shef - keep trying to force it wide when we’re playing a narrower formation; no winger/full back overlap meaning our play is easy to read and ineffective - the deep mids and the three CAMs arent linking up and our play is being easily stifled. The Midfield 5 need to all get more involved in the game (Milner’s probably been the best of the bunch so far, but even he hasn’t had a good game) and we need to focus more centrally if we’re playing the 4-2-3-1 narrow, as we are. As is this is a very tedious game of football, and they need the same boot up the arse they had last game - we improved against Shef when Firmino got more involved in the second half and the play was more central.

Suprised to see how ready some are to write off Taki - personally think he’s been decent in most of the games he’s been in, barring today, and think that he’ll come good

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Should’ve started with strongest line up, get the game won, then take players off. This selection is just wrong.

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Back to playing around them and creating nothing everything that has looked good is by playing quick passes or runs through the middle of them. Need to get Shaq on the ball centrally more.

I would like to keep itbthe same until the 60 minute mark, maybe with the exception of Origi in front of Robbo as someone said he just doesn’t gel in that position with Robbo.

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Fixture and injury management I expect, try to get the points with as few regulars as possible. We are a walking wounded side right now

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2:20 am here and a full load of work the day ahead , thats me fucking off. Hope our guys do better the next half.

Fuck , hate these late night starts

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no one covered themselves in glory that half, not one!!! Ali was Ali, but u cant include him with mere mortals

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That was bad. I expect a very different second half.

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Been saying that, this is crap. Minamino, Origi they get a chance to play and they are …

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missed the initial mistake from him, but i think gomez has hit more diagonals out of play in that first half than virgil has in three years

minamino & origi were hapless

we were slightly more incisive in the last 5 minutes or so and it does seem poised for a 1-0 or 2-0 win, but a shit performance so far

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Origi just needs to go. He had his moment and we thank him but he’s shite.

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Empty, quiet stadium.

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unfortunately we already made 1 sub so JK better needs to think who’ll make the best impact to the rest of the team

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Man I miss the old Shaq! This guy is invisible

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We get 5 subs in the CL.

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I think it’s hard when you swap all the established front men. They are so used to each other. Origi Taki and Jota are all working hard…just not that cohesive. All trying to win the game on their own… as for Shaq??
The Danes are also really aggressive and push up quickly so it’s more difficult for us to get out and create opportunities.
Not worried we have a really strong bench

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We have 4 more subs to make

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This never played before is a cop out excuse. They have plenty of time in training and should know each other abilities without question. The issue is that they are just not that good on a consistent basis. Taki is just terrible in this team, and I had such high hopes when I saw him play for the rbulls, just overwhelmed it seems. Sort of like Naby, but much cheaper.

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Origi out wide is as useful as a chocolate teapot.

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Alisson and Shaq are up to scratch. That’s all I have to say about that half. 0-0 FT looks very likely.

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Ajax winning 2-0 at Atalanta. Didn’t expect that

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