Liverpool vs Man City - Premier League (19/20 - Game 12)

[BigChief]

Stoke... and then points deduction? Doable. Well played City.

[Buzzo]

We are almost every pundits favourite for this game which is disconcerting. A few have the draw most have us down to win.

[rodo]

They are ****ing rattled big time

[Shaggy]

[ame]https://twitter.com/MiguelDelaney/status/1192749449426210816[/ame]

[Phoenix07]

The new tactical phenomenon?

They were talking about it when Benitez and Mourinho first came to England in 2004.

[Shaggy]

Good read though imo

[Phoenix07]

Good read though imo

Yeah it is, and some of it does show the difference between Guardiola and most other coaches and managers.

Even in Honigstein's book on Klopp, he was talking about measuring distances between certain players, and training did get boring, but once it's clicked, it's so effective. Can you imagine Solskjaer doing that at Man Utd?

[Buzzo]

Definitely a good read.

Interesting that Peps obsession with total control leaves them tactically vulnerable against a good team. Backed up by the fact that they struggle more against teams who have a go against them.

We can play that way, but we’ve also proved (CL final) that we can sit back and soak up pressure also.

Fascinating battle.

[RedReet]

I love how articles like this (probably less so this actually) break down what our midfielders do and the importance of their role. Everyone reads it, yet next match 10 mins in, "midfield ****", "Gini anonymous" etc, then **** like "why can't Klopp see this", or his "achilles heel" I think read on here.

[Shaggy]

I love how articles like this (probably less so this actually) break down what our midfielders do and the importance of their role. Everyone reads it, yet next match 10 mins in, "midfield ****", "Gini anonymous" etc, then **** like "why can't Klopp see this", or his "achilles heel" I think read on here.

I keep seeing people on Twitter saying it's Klopp's 'blind spot'.

Yep, Malcolm from Woking has got it sussed and Klopp just can't see it.

I mean, our midfielders aren't great all the time, and they had a shocking 1st half at Villa, but overall, clearly, they serve us extremely well. The over-analysis and criticism is a bit nuts.

[Buzzo]

I love how articles like this (probably less so this actually) break down what our midfielders do and the importance of their role. Everyone reads it, yet next match 10 mins in, "midfield ****", "Gini anonymous" etc, then **** like "why can't Klopp see this", or his "achilles heel" I think read on here.

Particularly Henderson has suffered from this massively over the last three years.

[Buzzo]

I keep seeing people on Twitter saying it's Klopp's 'blind spot'.

Yep, Malcolm from Woking has got it sussed and Klopp just can't see it.

I mean, our midfielders aren't great all the time, and they had a shocking 1st half at Villa, but overall, clearly, they serve us extremely well. The over-analysis and criticism is a bit nuts.

And also, as you have pointed out, the unbeaten run we have been on. We've lost once in ****ing 50 games or whatever with a wank midfield

[Phoenix07]

It didn't stop Klopp from possibly wanting to upgrade our whole midfield in 2018, with Fabinho, Keita, and Fekir.

However, like I said before, Klopp wasn't looking to sell Henderson, Wijnaldum etc, either. They've got us to 2 Champions League Finals and 97 points in the Premier League, so it's clear they're not as bad some make out either.

[dom9]

It didn't stop Klopp from possibly wanting to upgrade our whole midfield in 2018, with Fabinho, Keita, and Fekir.

However, like I said before, Klopp wasn't looking to sell Henderson, Wijnaldum etc, either. They've got us to 2 Champions League Finals and 97 points in the Premier League, so it's clear they're not as bad some make out either.

Yet in 2019 he didn't. So he's clearly happy with it.

[Angryred]

Just brought in those two players to complement what was at his disposal rather than overhaul.