Was out Last night but managed to watch the whole game, so here are my thoughts on the match...
Made up for the win and glad to see VVD get his first and long over due goal in the Prem' for LFC...
Team performances...
I thought James Milner struggled at right back, not his most natural position, and can not understand why he was played there when the better option would have been to play Fab', who has played right back on many an occasion., there instead and Milner up field... If we play Milner there vs. Arsenal and we are in trouble...
Both Fab' and Keita was poor, as was Firmino and Robertson...
Fab' while not as bad as Keita put in some poor passes, and gave the ball away on multiple occasions...
Keita was slow to move the ball, ran too often down blind alley's resulting stalled attacks and the ball being lost...
Firmino seemed to go missing for the majority of the game and one could excuse supporters believing the he was not actually on the pitch at time... In his defence I thought that on leave the pitch he looked run down as if he was suffering from the flu or something
Robertson , for me was the most disappointing... What happen to the lad we all know, bombing down the wing, overlapping and playing killer crosses...?? This happen way too little last night and when the crosses came they were over hit
Most of our attacking play seem to revolve around players trying to walk the ball into the area, and given the rain, and the surface last night very little attempts at low hit shots from around the edge of the area or defence dissecting passes using the slickness of that rain dampened surface seem to happen if at all ...
I don't thing that this was down to two good team cancelling one another out… We were poor, and had it not been for some great defensive play at time from VVD, and our two goals things could have quite easily been very different...
Keita injury though at this time reported to not be that serious, had it happened to Fab' and been more serious and with the lack of experience cover for CB this would season threatening... Need to bring in a CB ASAP
But you said Keita was poor. And as for Robbo, his overhit cross set up the second goal, so maybe he should try a few more of them.
Average first half, professional second half, won comfortably. City didn't win there, Chelsea lost there, so that shows how big a result it was. Hope most fans appreciate it, because I do.
21 points from 21, VVD chipping in, another clean sheet, the joint least goals conceded in 15 years, unbeaten; tell you something, if you're struggling for last minute holiday gifts, print out that league table and hand it to a like-minded red one. And remember, if we're top after the return game at home, we will have some silverware to go beside it.
It's as simple as that.
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