LFC v villa post match. scapegoat thread

[baronvonskidmark]

Markovic looks like he doesn't want to make a mistake and lose the ball. He needs to take players on and stop playing safe. We haven't brought him in to play safe. It'll take time for him to settle down and only then can he be judged.

I agree with what you are saying mate, especially the bolded bit. I think there were promising signs of what could come - but for a player making his debut on the league and team, perhaps too much was expected of him.

[DeanoUK]

I've seen him before today and he has little end product.

And Balotelli is not a top class striker, I'm not going to change my opinion just because he's signed for us.

Why the feck did we pay 20m for him then. I'm not saying you're wrong, I have no prior knowledge of him; it's just worrying if you have this thought about him already.

[Venton]

Well, I'm drinking in order to forget as Mr Kirkby might say. Don't think Villa were good enough to win but I don't think we were good enough to draw either. A lot of teams are going to play like that against us this year so we'd better sort that out. Poor but early days...

[Assassin]

mixing imperial and metric... shoddy effort

about 32' 9 and 5/8"

If you want to be more correct it is

32' 9 45/64"

[Vermilion]

Thinking about the last window, i'm a bit confused as to how we handled the striker situation. i think we should have been looking to bring in a proven player for upwards of 30mill, and not been looking at players like Remy for 8mill, and then settling for a cut price Balotelli, just not sure it's how we should have gone about it is all, and it might make or break the season.

Anyway, it's just one game, time will tell if we can make top 4 and have a run in europe, but the title will go to Chavski anyway imo.

[Phoenix07]

Balotelli looked really isolated in the game. Lallana was off the pace, although showed glimpses at time. Markovic wasn't great. I'd put these three down to fitness, nerves, and settling in.

A eye-bleaching game to watch. Everyone seemed to play as though they'd been on a McDonalds binge a few hours before. Mistimed passes, lack of control and movement.

Henderson was the only one who was decent.

Bad day at the office. Next.

[Slinky Skills]

Scored and put 11 men behind the ball. It's classic lower table against higher play.

We couldn't break them down, we move on and that's that. Tuesday will be interesting as to what formation and players we play.

Is it though?

Chelsea did the exact same thing against us last year and they're not lower table.

We need to learn to adapt, sometimes that means being a bit more defensive on our part to invite the opposition out.

It's no good being attack attack attack every single game, it doesn't work like that we need to be better than that otherwise we're going to fail when challenges like this arise.

Not good enough from us but we will improve I absolutely believe that. I do still think we will struggle to get the necessary goals to fire us towards our target which again will be the CL.

Suarez offered us so much, he's going to be missed massively - we're already starting to see that but we need to adapt as a team.

[cream]

I've seen him before today and he has little end product.

And Balotelli is not a top class striker, I'm not going to change my opinion just because he's signed for us.

Agree on Balotelli, not on Markovic

[Rich]

Word to our attacking set pieces today: abysmal.

[Tatterdemalion]

I've seen him before today and he has little end product.

And Balotelli is not a top class striker, I'm not going to change my opinion just because he's signed for us.

Great you've seen a twenty year old play twice and think you can write him off

You must find it deeply frustrating that a team of experts with vastly more experience and knowledge of the game than you, who presumably have seen the lad play more than twice think that spending £20m of our money on him is appropriate.

[Kenneth]

Great you've seen a twenty year old play twice and think you can write him off

You must find it deeply frustrating that a team of experts with vastly more experience and knowledge of the game than you, who presumably have seen the lad play more than twice think that spending £20m of our money on him is appropriate.

**** knows what they are doing eh? Sack the lot of them and get this lad Kenneth in. He only needs to see a player for 90 mins before he knows he's ****e. And as for Italy's no.9 ... obviously ****e

Have a word with yourself mate, we're all frustrated, but you are truly beyond.

It's my opinion, I'm not expecting you to share it, or to care what it is. I think he'll be a flop in this league, no biggie. Maybe he won't and I'll be proven to be badly wrong, it wouldn't be the first time, but hey, who gives a ****?

[Rich]

It's my opinion, I'm not expecting you to share it, or to care what it is. I think he'll be a flop in this league, no biggie. Maybe he won't and I'll be proven to be badly wrong, it wouldn't be the first time, but hey, who gives a ****?

Not you and not I

[BobTheCharmer]

My first impressions of markovic is he will flop. That's my gut feeling. Hope I'm wrong and it is very early days to right him off. I think he will be better in the champions league. He seems to have confidence which is in his favour. I also think Lovren is ****. He thinks he is good but I see none of the commanding presence we crave. Mario will be fine. Tuesday is an annoyance, bring on the next league game.

[Slinky Skills]

**** sake.

Stop arguing with each other lads, it's done now,

****ing move on, you're supposed to be fans of the same team.

[Assassin]

Markovic is best running onto the ball into space. Receiving the ball with a player right behind him is not his game....