Jordon Ibe

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Ibe vs Everton



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Ibe vs Everton



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Nice one Mo. That poster would have done him the world of good had it gone in.

[gentingfrmhell]

Got a nice shot on him. Just needs to start passing and building that teamwork. Another talent!

[Kinell]

Ibe vs Everton

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FAO Lazar Markovich.

Hint of mcmanaman about Ibe

[Maxiedge]

He's definitely a talent but I don't think he should have started ahead of Markovic yesterday unless it was for injury reasons.

[RedRum]

I would like to see Markovic LWB and Ibe RWB, or is that just too much attack and flair? Would be pretty interesting at home in a team we were expected to beat

[Chazza]

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[Maxiedge]

I just think at the moment, we're in a position where we need to stay in touching distance with 4th. It's not the time to be giving debuts (nearly) to young kids and should stick with the tried and tested until that needs tinkering.

It's great that Brendan gives the kids an opportunity, but on this occasion, I personally believe the inclusion of Ibe left us a bit foreign to what we're normally used to. You could see Gerrard having a few words with him too about positioning, runs etc...

[Kenneth]

What's the tried and tested option?

[Maxiedge]

Markovic RWB or even Gerrard

[Kenneth]

Yeah, not great.

[Red_Polo]

It's young relatively untried and untested players that have led our upturn in form, Lucas being the one notable exception.

Ibe put in a good performance and certainly didn't appear detrimental. Don't think Markovic fits the tried and tested bracket already really.

[RedRum]

Markovic has been good in that position, not just from an attacking point of view, but defensively too. Ibe gives us another option. Its a nice dilemma for Rodgers to have.

[Maxiedge]

It's young relatively untried and untested players that have led our upturn in form, Lucas being the one notable exception.

Ibe put in a good performance and certainly didn't appear detrimental. Don't think Markovic fits the tried and tested bracket already really.

I just don't think he should be tinkering at this very moment in time unless it's forced. That's just my personal opinion.

[Red_Polo]

I just don't think he should be tinkering at this very moment in time unless it's forced. That's just my personal opinion.

I can see why it's appealing to stick with what works and change nothing, and I wouldn't want a radical departure from it, but we do have to be pragmatic about things.

We're still in three competitions and we should consider rotation as something that might be beneficial. There's almost never a risk free time to do these things. If we are too averse to taking well planned calculated risks, we let in the possibility that injury will force change on us in ways where we will be poorly placed to mitigate the risks of throwing a different player in.

Without seeing the players in training it's difficult to measure the risks of trying any one of them in any particular role, but given the result of the decision this time (a promising performance from Ibe) and previously (performances of Sakho, Can and Markovic) I just can't see why I'd favour that sort of 'tinkering' being supplanted by a highly conservative approach.