So, what did I see in this game after the sending off of Mane? Boys in all of them. The sending off of Mane is an acid test to what the character of the players are all about. No fighting spirit, no desire to keep the score down or trying to score, we just gave up. There's no rule in the game to say we have to loose with 10 players. Hendo, continue to be our captain, god bless us, don't expect any fight back anytime under such circumstances. I'm sorry, I never rated him since the first day he joined the club. We truly need someone that speaks louder and shout louder beside hendo to provide the drive, if he retains the armband.
I'm sorry if this has already been written. What else did I see in this game, City's passes were crisp and decisive, they know exactly which way to go to hit us. We were the total opposite, in the final third we were in total disarray, everything was done at random, Salah got the ball into the box and no one fast enough or willing enough to run into space from midfield to score and support. Firminho was no where to be seen. I'm sorry Klopp, you have missed that out in training and you continue to get that wrong. Firminho, well, he better start to be a smart player, don't ball watch and follow Mane and Salah everytime just bloody run into empty pockets in the box and make yourself visible so that Mane and Salah could make the final pass.
How many times Salah has breached the City's defence and they got off the hook everytime, this is embarassing, as there was no one running from the midfield to connect to the final pass and I'm dissapointed that Klopp being a world class manager did not see that. I'm no Klopp, but I believe I saw the same thing as Klopp did, they kept attactking TAA time and again, even a novice coach like me saw that. Then, jolly well, put Can, Hendo or Wijnaldum to shield TAA. Perhaps he did that, but the three were strolling instead of putting in the hard tackles to distrupt City's movement.
City's game plan is easy, stop our free flowing game and stuff us in our final third. What did we do? We still took ages and dilly dally to get the ball out of our half and played right into City's hands. I'm sure City will use the same game plan against us again.
Wijnaldum, how long more we have to endure him? Missing in most games and suddenly turned up and score and everything fine after that. We might as well play with only 10 players.
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