Can't believe what I'm reading.
I was at the match today and let me tell you, we were sh*te. Yes, we were better than what we were against both West Ham and United so yes I suppose it was an improvement but we were still crap.
Our play was painfully slow. We were dreadful particularly in the middle of the park. I never thought we would break Norwich down with a neat move or with a pass. I actually thought they were the better footballing side when in possession too.
I'm gobsmacked with Moreno getting motm on here too. He didn't have a bad game don't get me wrong but he didn't have a particularly good one either. He is too wasteful going forward. Ings was motm by a country mile and he was only on the pitch for 45 mins!
Mignolet - absolute sh*te. Haven't seen the replay yet but he looked at fault for their goal from where I was. His distribution is awful. Doesn't command his box. Too slow getting the ball out. Can't kick. Doesn't bring any confidence to our back four. He's just sh*te. Get F***ing rid.
Skrtel, can, sakho - all did their jobs reasonably well. Looked pretty solid most of the game.
Clyne - poor IMO. Didn't get forward enough. Passed inside or backwards too much.
Moreno - did ok, defended well and got forward but wasteful in the final third at times. Had a good effort saved from their goalie.
Lucas - quiet. Didn't offer us much.
Milner - worst player on the pitch don't know what was wrong with him today, couldn't kick a ball straight.
Coutinho - few bits of great play as usual, wasteful at times too though. Should have made it 2-1, terrible terrible miss.
Sturridge - thought he did well considering he hasn't played in months. Lacked a bit of sharpness and a turn of pace at times which you would expect but he still had a decent game
Benteke - one or two bits of link up with Sturbridge but mostly isolated as usual. No service to him.
Subs. Ings - motm. Great goal, worked his socks off, battled. I'd start him every week if i was boss.
Lallana - did quite well too. Some nice link up play.
Firmino - wasnt on for long but also linked up well at times.
But overall it was a poor display. Just because we were better than what we were in our last two games doesn't make it a good performance. Norwich are F***ing sh*te, and we struggled against them. It was too slow, too predictable, we didn't have enough in our locker to break them down. I don't think any player in our 11 (apart from Ings) can say to themselves tonight 'yeah I had a proper F***ing go today but we were just unlucky', some of them simply didn't put enough effort in to win that game
I said to my mate at half time as well, I bet Brendan is in the changies now saying 'well done boys keep it up you're playing really well' instead of being like F***ing get out there right now for fucks sake and beat this pile of sh*te and getting them rallied up and up for it a bit more
Last thing to say which is nothing new, the atmosphere was yet again shocking. It's so bad.
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