I know Mignolet isn't particularly good, but I don't get all the praise he's getting for tonight's match. He had nothing to do whatsoever until he was called into action for the one and only time, to make the save from Coleman.
I thought Can was our best player, followed by Henderson. Ibe had a promising game. Sterling and Coutinho were way below par. As for Gerrard, he was utterly abysmal, shockingly bad. I confidently predicted that if we played him from the start the best we could hope for would be a draw. He slows the midfield down massively and offers precisely nothing to the team. At least he was out of harm's way further up the pitch.
I hate sentimentality in football and in pre-match threads some bozos were saying that he had to play today. I can only assume they either hadn't seen Gerrard play this season or that they don't care if we drop points with him buggering up the midfield.
Rodgers' blind spot about Gerrard is going to cost us points and places in the league.
The worst thing is that Everton were atrocious. They were there for the taking and just about any other team around us in the league would have won in a canter tonight by at least a couple of goals while not needing to get out of second gear. I can't remember a more toothless Everton at Goodison and us being under no pressure at all in the game. Still, it would only have needed a slip-up froma set-piece late in the game and we could have lost.
I was flicking between the 3 o'clock games on TV out here in Thailand and Spurs and Arsenal both looked average, while Southampton were downright poor at QPR, yet two of them pulled two points further away from us, while we have a poor Man U team with a great chance of beating an injury-hit West Ham tomorrow and also somehow pulling further away from us, despite being incredibly average.
Anyway, please no more Gerrard starting games. He's gone, shot to pieces, finished and his inclusion in the future will be the undoing of our season
I thought Can was our best player, followed by Henderson. Ibe had a promising game. Sterling and Coutinho were way below par. As for Gerrard, he was utterly abysmal, shockingly bad. I confidently predicted that if we played him from the start the best we could hope for would be a draw. He slows the midfield down massively and offers precisely nothing to the team. At least he was out of harm's way further up the pitch.
I hate sentimentality in football and in pre-match threads some bozos were saying that he had to play today. I can only assume they either hadn't seen Gerrard play this season or that they don't care if we drop points with him buggering up the midfield.
Rodgers' blind spot about Gerrard is going to cost us points and places in the league.
The worst thing is that Everton were atrocious. They were there for the taking and just about any other team around us in the league would have won in a canter tonight by at least a couple of goals while not needing to get out of second gear. I can't remember a more toothless Everton at Goodison and us being under no pressure at all in the game. Still, it would only have needed a slip-up froma set-piece late in the game and we could have lost.
I was flicking between the 3 o'clock games on TV out here in Thailand and Spurs and Arsenal both looked average, while Southampton were downright poor at QPR, yet two of them pulled two points further away from us, while we have a poor Man U team with a great chance of beating an injury-hit West Ham tomorrow and also somehow pulling further away from us, despite being incredibly average.
Anyway, please no more Gerrard starting games. He's gone, shot to pieces, finished and his inclusion in the future will be the undoing of our season
who's arsed?
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