Jota can be thanking his lucky stars Origi was able to do what he couldn’t. An unforgivable miss by Jota in what was one of the worst individual performances we’ve had from an attacker for a while. I don’t know if it was the occasion or what but his head wasn’t right in this game and he very nearly cost us. On the bench in place of Origi next week.
Nobody particularly played well, there were lots of individual errors and sloppy decisions from everyone, especially Van Dijk at the back.
We got away with one today, we finally showed that winners mentality to grind out a win when it looked beyond us.
Let’s hope we learn from this performance and perform much better next week.
I really don't think so. I don't think anyone would have complained about a draw but while there may have been some odd moments from some of our players (we lacked sharpness today) the defensive line we played was superb. The step forward and activating the offside trap numerous times today was fantastic. You'd think Traore was Lionel Messi or Salah the way some people were praising him this match. But he doesn't have much intelligence beyond his pace and strength. How many times can you be caught offside before it's unforgivable? We played with him and their attack constantly with that high line.
And it doesn't get away from the fact that we had numerous better chances than they ever did. 1-0? Yeah, F**k any other opinion. It was deserved for us. Not at our brilliant best but that shouldn't deny us looking for the good things in that performance.
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