Before I start on the performance, I was so frustrated by the American telecast. I don't know if it looked the same around the world (I'll check it out on LFC TV tomorrow), but they had the camera frame,picture size or whatever, completely wrong. So you would keep losing the ball when it was at the top or the bottom of the screen. On top of that they had this extra-large graphic showing the score and clock, seemed about twice as large as usual so more of the pitch blocked. Jon Champion does well enough but Burley has verbal diarrhea and clearly doesn't do any homework on the teams beforehand (could have avoided a half-dozen stupid Liverpool comments just by looking at the Echo online before the match).
They showed almost no replays (except the goal about 50 times throughout the match) and when they did it was often tthe wrong shot, showing a guy passing a ball on an offside call, but not showing the runner vs. defense, etc. I've seen good football telecasts here but maybe they ran out of competent crews for all the games that are going on, so they got the audio-video crew from a local middle school. So that was frustrating to me.
Baldemar Toledo is known in MLS for being card-happy and I thought he was poor, although I didn't think that favored Chelsea per se.
Klavan I thought was excellent, really encouraged by his performance.
Moreno reminded us early and often why we need a new left back.
I noticed Milner played both fullback spots during his 25 minutes and I expect that to be his main position for us this year, with all the new adds in midfield and attack.
Mane will be great for us.
Firminho needs tto get sharper although that is prob true of all our attacking players (save Coutinho wo is already there).
Hopefully Grujic will be OK as both the head butt from his opponent and the way his head hit the ground were nasty.
Agree with you all that Ejaria was good too. I thought Randall did alright tonight actually.
Now we just need to get everyone match fit.
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