Knowing they were going to park the bus and it was going to be difficult to break them down honestly could have started with Solanke & Ing in a 4-4-2/4-4-1 type of system and put trent in place of Gomez. Probably still would have ended the same way but you might of had Salah and Firmino coming on off the bench.
TAA VVD Matip Robertson
Mane Lallana Can AOC
Ings
Solanke
It's all hindsight but when you know they are going to park it sometimes it might be better to give them something different to think about.
Worst case it probably finished the same scoreline.
Before the game, with the line up we had, I thought we'd win that game. With the form we showed, playing against bottom team, was sure we'd get goals. What the hell do I know
If we started 4-4-2 with Ings/Solanke, would probably have been scratching my head off the back of the City result.
But given the way the game went, would have no problem trying something like what you suggested from HT on. We were really struggling to break them down. Personally not sure I'd put Solanke out, hasn't really done it for us yet imho, but 30 mins before end might have gone:
Karius
TAA VVD Robertson
AOC Can Lallana
Salah Firmino Mane
Ings
Taken off Matip for Ings, Can was playing deepish anyway.
But with AOC, Lalllana,Salah, Firmino, Mane, ings, thats a lot of attacking players.
Maybe even thro VVD up top near the end and leave Can at CB.
That might be a bit over the top, but we need to start trying something different in the games were our F1 gets stuck in traffic
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