I wonder sometimes if people who post on here have ever played the game before, I really do. The goal is "Lovrens fault"? First thing to consider is that it's a good goal, fine finish. It isn't though the fault of the centre half who was marking the other attacker, when the attacker supposedly being marked by Skrtel leaves the Slovakian for dead, gets the ball and then scores. Yes I realise Lovren ended up being the nearest to him, left his own man in order to attempt to get a challenge in, but it isn't his "fault", that's not how defending works. The idea is that you take individual responsibility for your own defending, then if push comes to shove and one of your team mates goes to sleep (as Skrtel did here) you do your best to get accross and put a covering tackle in. It's not really important either way as it's only a pre-season game, but it's really odd how people either a) don't understand the basic rudiments of football or b) have a hatred for a player which is so deep rooted that they cannot see the most obvious of things. Very very strange.
As for the posters who are saying we have been sh!te in pre season and they fear the worst, I would say to them that the two aren't linked. If you fear the worst and we had won all our pre season games 8-0, you might as well still fear the worst because the result of us against a Malaysia eleven is irrelevent. Just like it was irrelevent that we beat Dortmund 4-0 at the same stage of last season, and just like it's irrelevent that Chelsea got beat by New York Red Bull City or whatever the f*ck they're called. It's just about getting fit, that's all.
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