[COC] Stoke (A): Post Match

[I, Ravel Morrison]

Jaysus, our players are so frustratingly inconsistent. Allen, Firmino good this game, a game or two ago not so.

[Fosterbloke]

Is there a place I can learn more about patterns of play etc?

[gratziani]

Just had a thought and our best results lately have been with three in the middle of the park.

City , Chelsea and Soton away we have had Lucas and Can playing plus one other whether it has been Allen or Milner,

The way forward from now ? the difference between last night and the others was our wasteful finishing which didn't help when Coutinho went off

[Liverpool]

he was drawing a massive imaginary heart and pointing at the players, rather than pointing at the badge

[Vermilion]

Is there a place I can learn more about patterns of play etc?

http://www.coachescolleague.com/sessions/patterns-play

[DeanoUK]

Firmino wasn't that great. Lot of work from teh lad and got in some great positions but his touch, passing and shooting have let him down badly since coming to LFC. Hopefully he can improve

I'm a gerbil too then, thought he was his usual poor self. Hoping he'll come good after he's settled in, but really can't understand the positivity in regards to his performance tonight.

[Tribute]

I'm a gerbil too then, thought he was his usual poor self. Hoping he'll come good after he's settled in, but really can't understand the positivity in regards to his performance tonight.

yep, he was very mobile and finding the right spaces and areas to run into. However, his quality is not there yet and he gave away possession or ran up blind alleys a few times. He'll be amazing when he gets his shooting boots on. Scuffers for fun at the moment...

[Fosterbloke]

http://www.coachescolleague.com/sessions/patterns-play

Thank you Vermi

[G]

Can't find the Kolo thread on my phone so here will do. He was ****ing immense last night. Considering an awful lot of our fans never wanted to see him on the pitch again he showed he's still very much capable of doing a job.

[kubrickscube]

Can't find the Kolo thread on my phone so here will do. He was ****ing immense last night. Considering an awful lot of our fans never wanted to see him on the pitch again he showed he's still very much capable of doing a job.

Definitely, read the game excellently. But where's Sakho? He injured too?

[Nicey]

Definitely, read the game excellently. But where's Sakho? He injured too?

His knee from that "soft" tackle at Sunderland hopefully not too serious

[Nicey]

The standard of punditry / football analysis whatever you want to call it is shocking at times. I listened to 5Live yesterday and Mark Pougatch did not half talk some ****e as he tends to do most weeks.

His take Stoke were ****e .. there key players did not turn up and that why they are not still at the likes of Bayern. When to me it was obvious that we shut down the supply to them, Shaqri rarely got a touch of the ball, he supplies the other two ... Johnson and there Central mf who's name leaves me right now .. got very little time on the ball... there defenders all got pressed as did there outlets ... all in all it was a masterclass by Liverpool on how to nullify dangerous players but not stopping them but stopping the players feeding them the ball

[gratziani]

The standard of punditry / football analysis whatever you want to call it is shocking at times. I listened to 5Live yesterday and Mark Pougatch did not half talk some ****e as he tends to do most weeks.

His take Stoke were ****e .. there key players did not turn up and that why they are not still at the likes of Bayern. When to me it was obvious that we shut down the supply to them, Shaqri rarely got a touch of the ball, he supplies the other two ... Johnson and there Central mf who's name leaves me right now .. got very little time on the ball... there defenders all got pressed as did there outlets ... all in all it was a masterclass by Liverpool on how to nullify dangerous players but not stopping them but stopping the players feeding them the ball

Teams change their tactics and it was quite clearly we did and Stoke didn't have a clue to counter us.

Only time we got under pressure was when they brought Crouchy on and reverted to Stoke of old and alehouse lob the ball up to the big man.

[calvoboy]

Every single time we've played well this year it's been said that the opposition were ****e. It's almost like we are stopping teams from doing what they want to do against us using some kind of, I don't know, tactics? (we still can't stop teams that lump it though, admittedly)

[Fosterbloke]

They should have equalized in the last few minutes. We were very lucky!