Our style of play

[Fredo]

Klopp mentioned mental sharpness as to what he thinks was the issue last night. Last year, with a near full squad to choose from we might have sneaked out a 1 or 2 nil win even without playing well at all. I think this year it’s just not possible because losing 8 players through injury is difficult to cope.

[BobTheCharmer]

Klopp mentioned mental sharpness as to what he thinks was the issue last night. Last year, with a near full squad to choose from we might have sneaked out a 1 or 2 nil win even without playing well at all. I think this year it’s just not possible because losing 8 players through injury is difficult to cope.

See it's this approach is where I think we are going wrong. You are right we did snesk a lot of tight games. We didn't play very well but won. Doesn't take much in football for those results to go against you. We had luck last year in tight games, this year none. Sheffield utd are finding similar but at opposite ends of the table. We have needed to find a better way of playing against teams that sit deep for a while as it was obvious you can't keep not getting out of 2nd gear and sneaking the points. Virgil from set pieces from an attacking point is a massive loss. Now our corners are pointless.

The disadvantage is our narrow pitch but then we cut inside at every opportunity anyway. Mentally the players seem lost when we play at home. They almost know they'll struggle before we kick off.

[Norbs]

In the 93rd minute the ball was still being passed back and across trying to locate Salah in order for him to try and weave his way diagonally in to the penalty area. Tried 20 times last night and never looked like being effective

I've started to get annoyed watching the same rinse and repeat ****. Should never have let them find their tempo or settle in to the game, the patient starts are playing in to their hands.

And I was serious last night about giving away corners on purpose. That would **** with our opponents minds and might be the only way to coax them out of their own half ffs

[kingfunk]

Funnily enough I fancy is to beat city, Leicester and everton then lose to Sheffield United and Fulham!

[Norbs]

Funnily enough I fancy is to beat city, Leicester and everton then lose to Sheffield United and Fulham!

[baitman]

Our army of midgets run around their defensive phalanx and bounce off with little chance of penetration, we try to wriggle into the gaps but they become smaller as the approach play stutters and players take an extra touch or two.
Chipping balls across their area in the vain attempt that we might benefit is like trying to throw a curly plastic £5 into a vending machine slot from across the road.

[BobTheCharmer]

I do especially like it when we are attacking on the break and get to the corner of their box, slow down to let their players get back in position before passing it about a bit, usually backwards and eventually it is back at the feet of the keeper.

[ntto]

I wonder if Dzeko would have been an option until the end of the season - gives us somebody to attack all of those aimless crosses

[Norbs]

I do especially like it when we are attacking on the break and get to the corner of their box, slow down to let their players get back in position before passing it about a bit, usually backwards and eventually it is back at the feet of the keeper.

That is exactly how it looks. Or we take a short corner and 5 passes later it's back with our keeper, but hey we didn't lose possession

[Norbs]

I wonder if Dzeko would have been an option until the end of the season - gives us somebody to attack all of those aimless crosses

So he could chest them in?

[Scratch]

Klopp mentioned mental sharpness as to what he thinks was the issue last night. Last year, with a near full squad to choose from we might have sneaked out a 1 or 2 nil win even without playing well at all. I think this year it’s just not possible because losing 8 players through injury is difficult to cope.

Losing 8 players is a kick, but I think it's the fact that the remaining players are now having to play continuously, with no resting those that maybe could do with a break. That team against Brighton should have been more than enough to beat them, but factor in a bit of fatigue and decision making suddenly seems so much harder.

We just can't rotate players at the moment, cos we either don't have the squad depth in the right areas or the players we do have as back-up just aren't good enough.

[Norbs]

Would like to be wrong but expect us to struggle again at the weekend. Tonight, as with WHU and Spurs, was helped by the fact they wanted to play in our half, and wanted the ball.

Be interesting to see if Everton want to play but Anchelotti is a wiley old fox and I can't see him being prepared for an open game

[Fredo]

This malarkey with teams defending deep and flucking a win against us will end soon. I’m confident of it. We just need to pen them back and again and again and again and again and not lose our patience.

[Norbs]

You'd hope so but that will be how every team will try and nullify us

[Fredo]

Yeah which is fine by me. We never had that much of a problem the last few years with that kind of football so I expect us to get back to somewhere close to that soon enough.